Culture Shock in Vientiane

Business Trip at Vientiane
This week, I went to Vientiane for my first business trip for ODOP. I had to register my name under a bank to be able to windrow money as finance and accounting person in ODOP Project and market research of the handicraft product as product promoter. (So far job descriptions for me are finance and accounting, one of Promotion members and local staff management.)

Culture Shocked in Vientiane…
“Vientiane is really big city”. This was 6 times for me to stay at Vientiane. Every time except this time, I felt Vientiane has nothing to do, such a small and slow city and didn’t have car. But this time I felt totally opposite, because I came there not from BKK but from Suvannakhet, which is much smaller city. Even I felt my heart beating faster when I got to Vientiane, hahaha. Actually now Vientiane has Fake KFC, Pizza hat, Sweet Cream, Mini mart, night crab and so on. And even sometimes we had traffic jam as well. Anyway, I was a little bit afraid of the time when I went back to BKK or Tokyo. How much I would get culture shock, 555.

Reports of Mekong River in Vientiane…
The first time I came and saw the river in Vientiane Oct 2009. I have a special memory for the river. It is because the beauty and bigness impressed me a lot, and moreover I saw it with my best friends from Thailand. Every time when I saw this river, it reminds me of the precious memory. But one the same time, I was feeling sad, coz Mekong river here has been being constructed into smaller and smaller. They are making park by the river, looks beautiful. But still for me I felt sad coz my memorial place is changing.

We are trying to change our world, society or maybe everything.
But I believe that there are some things that shouldn’t be changed.
Coz they themselves are already one of the best shape.
Problem is our perspective to the objects.
Stop for a while and think of the actual and in visual values they already had before we change something.

(Oct 2009) (April 2010 ) (Aug 2010)


雄揮 / Yuki / ยูกิ