Life In Lao

Yesterday during lunch at the Talad Sal Market we were watching an overhead TV and a television advertisement caught Laura’s attention. The advertisement showed a modernly dressed Laotian woman washing clothes in the backyard of her house in a large wash tub. She was scrubbing away, and her hands were becoming red and irritated. The hands suddenly became animated showing the pain she was feeling in them. Then her husband and two children appear from the house and they are smiling with an idea. Laura thinks that they are either going to help her wash the clothes, or buy her a washing machine. No! They are going to buy her a different brand of bar laundry soap. Such is life in Laos.