On my 2nd last day (Friday) in LPB I -
treated myself to a leisurely breakfast at Le Benneton Cafe - a quaint french bakery place opposite the temple I teach at in the evenings. I ordered a fruit salad, latte and a chocolate pear puff pastry - this place supposedly has amazing and authentic french pastries. Sadly for me the pear in the pastry was the coarse yellow chinese pear (commonly found here) and not the typical green pear (which I guess they dun get in LPB)... so the choc-pear filling felt a lot more grainy than expected and tasted a little strange heh.
completed a mini feat of buying 20 English-Lao/Lao-English dictionaries as farewell gifts for the novices from a local market (at wholesale prices) and transported all of them back to the guest house via hanging a bag on each bicycle handle;
ran out of patience at my stencil class after 2 hours and made the owner's brother finish the outer circle of my design for me (btw his brother was checking his FB acct in the background);
and finally towards the end of the day I received a whole lot of little presents (which I definitely did not deserve) from students for a class I co-teach with another volunteer...
At the Bangkok airport before catching my flight back to SG - I also discovered that Auntie Anne's (I used to be a fan of their pretzels back in my secondary sch days) also did amazing sandwiches - using sandwich buns that taste faintly of pretzels! Erm it was kinda mildly sweet and had a nice texture. The club sandwich I ordered was really tasty. They may do better in SG today by switching to sandwiches heh... ;)
And so this kinda concludes my mini teaching stint in Laos - it was a good experience but it's also lovely to be home again! :)
p/s: If you recall the Japanese restaurant lady I blogged about in my previous post - I found out upon returning to the restaurant a 2nd time for lunch that she got married on the same day as me in Laos!! So coincidental that I had to double check a few times to make sure we were referring to the same date... :) I guess maybe we were fated to meet heh.
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