Its 9.30pm, and i am sitting in my house in Vientiane, with an overhead fan, and a laptop fan under my laptop dripping sweat into my keyboard having just attended "an event" run by WIG, a Lao equivalent of the women's institute. It was held above a bookshop and was a moderately interesting talk about a website /discussion group on topics ranging from farming and agricultural policies to insect farming - which i would muchrather have heard about. Warm wine and orange juice was served at the door as aprt of the 30,000 kip $3 entry fee, and it was packed with an uninteresting mix of people, apart from a lovely couple i play the occasional game of tennis with. The presentation itself was professional, but the content, for me at least , was bland to
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