Thursday, June 3, 2010
Some Pets In Laos
(pets list provided by my mom)
Jewelry Made In Asia
Have you ever looked at your jewelry and wondered where it came from? Sometimes your jewelry is made in Asia, Asia makes lots of jewelry and most of it's hand made! Here are some pictures of jewelry made all over Asia.
( Images above from : www.orientalshoppingmall.com/.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
An Event In Asia
Around 2008, in Asia (Shanghai) there was an issue with the milk they were producing in one of the milk companies, it was contaminated milk. They had kept the safety of the contaminated milk a secret for almost a year until they finally announced that the milk company had been shut down for making contaminated milk. The milk made tens of thousands of little children sick and that was not a good sign. After the issue was released to the public they were then questioning there food supplies, wondering how safe their everyday foods were. How was Shanghai supposed to gain back some of the peoples' trust in the food that is produced there? Later, Food Safety Authorities investigated about the Shanghai Panda Dairy Co. Ltd. saying that they were one of 22 other companies/people that produced contaminated milk in Shanghai.
So that's the event for today, I hope you learned something from this post and keep coming to this blog to maybe find out more about Asia and the things/places/people in it!
(information from: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34747359/ns/health-food_safety/)
Saturday, May 1, 2010
School in Laos
School in Laos is obviously not like school that we go to. Discipline is definetly not as strict and neither are the teachers. We also learn different things in one day, and everyone has a desk of their own. And usually children would start school at the age of 4 or 5. The school hours are somewhere around 9:00 am to 3:20-3:30 pm. We can have a lot of different school supplies like scissors, markers and glue sticks.
As you can see, schools around the world are very different. Do you know any other countries that have different school routines?
Some Games/hobbies My Mom Did In Laos
This post is a list of games that my mom played when she lived in Laos when she was younger. She said her family didn't have a lot of money so she would find anything lying around and try to turn it into a toy. That happened a lot she said because a lot of families didn't have enough money to buy toys, only for food and clothes they needed. She said she would find a lot of things that were thrown out by other people. As some people say, someones trash is another persons treasure. So this is what she said she did as hobbies and games:
- she said she tied rubber bands together to make skipping ropes to play with
- she dug under the dirt to find clay and make things out of it (she said she would make a toy camera sometimes)
- a game that is well known here was also played in Laos too, the game is tag, my mom said she played tag a lot with other children
- she would also play checkers sometimes too, of coarse she had to make it herself out of bottle caps and paper
- she would also play some games with sticks and twigs she found
Now, these games are somewhat similar to the games we play but at the same time somewhat different. We can buy our toys and games but like I've said before, they don't have a lot of money so they were into making things. I'm sure that other games were played too but that's all I know from what my mom told me. Some of the games that were played were probably made up. That would require a lot of creativity, see if you can be creative too and make up your own games!
Friday, April 30, 2010
The Stores, Land and Streets of Laos
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Laotian Clothing
(This picture is from saodarly.com/.../uploads/
In Canada, we wouldn't normally be wearing a piece of fabric wrapped around us, the closest thing we would wear to that would be a skirt. Even though we might think that their clothing is different, if we went to Laos, I think they would think the same.
Sometimes i wonder what other countries in asia wear..........