Wednesday, August 1, 2012

I have not written for Monday and Tuesday. It got very busy with the end of the course.  I also started to pack, since we were going sight-seeing today.  I brought some Maple Sugar Candy leaves from VT to give to the students. I wanted to wrap them  up nicely.

The days were very busy but the students did great.  On Monday night, Ralph and Ranen and I went to a Thai Restaurant and had Prawns, Satay, Vegetable and Salted Fish, Fish cakes and curry over a flame.

It was very delicious.  We also sampled various cakes for dessert.

This was a real coconut and you drank the light milk
and then could eat the coconut meat.

 

This side of the restaurant was Thai,
the other side was Vietnamese.

Bean cakes 

On the same street we found a shop
selling Chinese herbs.

Tuesday morning, I had to get up at 5:00 am to be part of a

MACTE meeting on Skype.  The other members were all nicely

settled in at 5:00 in the afternoon!  That meeting lasted until 6:25 

and Mom called on Skype at 6:30.  She is getting very good at it and is 

right on time.  We talked awhile and then I was off to school

at 8:00.  It was a busy last day with many lessons, and pictures.

Ralph made some delicious bar-be-qued  pork for our lunch.

We knew we would be going out to celebrate after class so were

getting all last details ready.

At 5:00, the sky turned black and it started pouring and blowing.

The storms come up very quickly here.  Maybe part of Tropical

Storm Saola.  We stayed a little longer to try to wait out the storm.

Then we went to Jade Garden, a beautiful restaurant, to have our farewell dinner.  

Peking Duck with cucumber  to
be rolled in pancakes in background.

Little did they know what a rowdy
group we would turn into.

This is what they call Winter Melon.  It is supposed to cool you
although this is served very hot.  The melon is scooped out and
vegetables are added.  It is cooked and the melon softens.
They dip it out with the vegetables and pieces of melon.  Very nice.

Bean sprouts and beans

Chicken

Wonderful coconut flavored "fish" for dessert

The whole class making a scene as we took pictures, gave hugs, and
generally made a lot of commotion.   It was a fun party!  They are great!



Didn't get home until 9:30 and did some more packing.