Biking Tour Reports

These wierd kids in red interrupted my afternoon meal today. They all arrived on bikes. Then the kids who had all different wierd colors of hair and marched in like an army of soldiers and pulled out a bunch of cameras. The bright light scared me so I ran away, but my best friend Herb was more brave than me and let them take a picture really close up. I wish I was as brave as Herb!! The "kids" in red" invaded our sleeping quarters and kept flashing bright lights at us. By that point it had started to rain so they all trudged back out to their bicycles and rode off. Who were those people`in red. There shirts read

On a cold, rainy day three women stood by their houses, all barefooted and watching the chickens. There fathers, husbands and sons were out in the near by rice patties with the water buffalo. As we biked along we saw dogs and chickens running about their village. We saw an old woman sitting on a stump of a log. lAs we drew nearer, she gave a gesture for us to come near. We stopped our bike and walked into their village. A small girl in ragged clothes looked at me and ran away laughing. Later on, I met her mother and older sister and we talked for awhile. It was a small village with ten houses, all built closely together. The land tht remained was all farm land and what little the land produced was shared among the village. We asked whether or not they buy most or their food or sell most of it. They laughed and looked at us with big smiles and answered," If we don't buy our food we will starve!" half jokely. They also said," They sell about half their food and eat the other half." They invited us to have tea but just then it started to pour. Everyone started running around to put their drying clothes away and putting the hay and wood indoors. We waved goodbye not wanting to get soaked. All in all, they were very kind people. Here is the picture of the village people (last of day one koester qtake).

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