Ubon's Simple Life

Now, living in Ubon is definitely a change from busy Bangkok. The lifestyles and the pace of the people are considerably different. Last Saturday, I had the chance to visit a community here in Ubon that I had never seen before. While handing out fliers, my group walked down by the Moon River. I had no idea the river was even there until that day. lol. But anyways, the community we visited was very interesting and eye-openingg. I decided that I would have to come back and show Erin this other world of Ubon. 

So today we decided to abandon our usual plan of jogging in the park and walk down by the river and through the village community. It was a beautiful day, the sun was out and the clouds were absolutely breath

-taking (I have this thing for clouds...lol.) We made our way down to the village, but to our surprise the recent rain, flooded the stairs. So we ventured out onto this man-made bamboo bridge. It was very scary. I thought it was going to break, but we made it. I'm pretty sure the locals that saw us, thought we were weird. 




After surviving the bamboo bridge, we wandered around this small community of simple houses. It was very dirty and animals were everywhere. We even had to stop for a man pulling his cows. Which made me happy (I love seeing cows!) As we wandered around, there wasn't a person who didn't take a second glance at us. I can't imagine they get many foreigners wandering around their streets. Some even said "hello" in their broken English. This little adventure are the types of things I love to see. It gave us a chance to see how the locals live. It felt like another world, and we were only a couple blocks from home.