More "Jars"

On our first evening in Myanmar Jenny and I stopped at the coffee shop for some desert Sodiha, pictured here, was a waiter. Jenny wanting to try figure out some phrases from my Burmese phrase book started up a conversation with this young man, now we had a new friend at the hotel and someone to try our simple phrases with. Well about the only phrase that we actually got down was, "See you later" twe-meh naw. Even though he didn't speak that much English he went out of his way to help us out. On our last day he ended up giving us both a little good-bye present.



Here I am with Zoa, one of the trainees. He spent half a day on Friday walking around the city with us. His English was pretty good and we had fun just walking around and finding more about his life. Jenny made an unofficial contest out of which one of us had to fix our Longyi's the most. She says I lost, but I didn't see her trying to wear one.

We walked to Kandawgyi lake with him and this picture was taken infront of the Karaweik restaurant.

Dorothy and Shelly were our personal tour guides for our whole trip. Dorothy orchestrated all our activities and made sure there was always someone to availiable to take care of us. Shelly did most of the leg work, and she was especially invaluable when it came to bargaining in the market. And there seemed to be a steady flow of gifts from both of them. On Thursday night they took us to an elegant Thai restaurant just down from the hotel the food was fantastic, although I'm sure that I ate way too much. The next day they fixed us traditional Burmese breakfast of Mohinga, a rice noodle soup. Then on the same day they prepared for us a great Burmese dinner. It was great, especially the little Burmese coconut desert. It all was delicious, and again I probably ate too much, sorry to say that it was also probably the meal that made both of us not want to stray to far from the toilet the next day.