Lisa and I are on our final trip with the students. We are in the mountains on the border with Laos. As I write this, all I can see is green forested hills and misty clouds. It has been raining a little. We are visiting a permaculture school that teaches sustainable farming practices to indigenous minority groups that live in Vietnam or Laos. Worm farms, biogas systems, composting, strip cropping, grey water use, and soil erosion prevention farming techniques and the like. Strangely, the food here has been extremely repetitive. Rice and eggs every single meal for 5 days. Although yesterday they slaughtered a pig and we were excited for something different. We had rice, thin slices of pig fat, boiled liver, heart and stomach and bloody looking sausage. Not really the most appetizing thing to eat or look at.
Oh well, we have had the opportunity to swim in the river, jump off rocks into the river and go for a hike. Lisa had a very full leech on her ankle that fell off two nights ago when she took off her sandals. I gave it a little salt bath and it vomitted up her blood and then died.
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