The weird day kept going.  One teacher came up to me and asked if I wanted to help make bamboo rice.  Sure.  I watched them cook the coconut milk, put sugar and salt in it.  Then they put rice in the bamboo shoot.  I helped pour the coconut milk in after.  Then they take a large leaf, roll it up and stick it in the open end so the milk and rice doesn’t come out.  Then it’s grilled.  After that we went to another area of the school and had a teacher’s meeting about what was going to happen tonight.  Huh?  I started at 8:00am and it’s now 4:30pm.  The meeting went for almost two hours.  The best I could tell is there were 15 stations.  I was going to be at station 4 with Q, my next door neighbor.  They brought out dinner.  Pat said all the food was spicy and sent me off with her husband to get dinner at a nearby restaurant.  We got back at 7:00pm and the scouts were meeting, getting the lowdown on the activities for the evening.  Q and I went to our station.  It was about 10 strings of barbed wire near the ground.  Each group of scouts had to figure out how to hold up the barbed wire high enough for students in the group to crawl under the barbed wire.  This is what I did all night.  I have no idea what the other stations had.  One was definitely a short zip line because I could see it off in the distance when a group shined their lights on the person zipping.  One station was at the top of a very high hill and involved singing.  We did this until 10:00pm.  Then we went back to the main meeting hall and had rice soup while they spoke to the scouts again.  I got home around 11:00pm.  Breakfast is at 7:30am tomorrow.  I wonder what the day has in store tomorrow – more scout stuff.  My missing helmet was sitting next to my door when I got home.  Sleepy.

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