A haphazard chronicle of my inevitable misadventures during a year in Vietnam and points east.

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Bus from Savannakhet to Vientiane, Laos

The first hour of my 9 hour busride today was fabulously entertaining. Several guys from the Lao Ministry of Information boarded the bus in matching t-shirts and jeans to kick off a new program -- AIDS awareness on the move. Today was the first day of it, according to another M of I guy I talked to, and they were clearly very excited about the idea. The two guys doing the presentation approached it like game show hosts, getting the whole bus laughing and involved and handing out condoms to those who answered their quiz questions correctly. I am now the proud owner of a free sample packet of "Number One" brand condoms. Deluxe! Top Quality!

Things got even better when they whipped a dildo out of their bag of tricks and proceeded to give us all a demonstration on the proper methods of opening the packet, removing the condom, and putting it in its proper place. You just haven't lived until you've watched two giggling Laos give a bus full of men (plus me) a condom use tutorial. As their big finale, they pulled out an enormous porn-style dildo and, judging from the fact that the were laughing and pointing at Stee, my tall British travelling companion, they may have been making some rather personal speculations about his physical attributes.

Copyright 2003 Katy Warren

posted by Katy at 7:33 AM