Awkward Falong Support Group

I can honestly say that if it wouldn't have been for the friendships of the women in this picture, this year would have been a much greater challenge. Jessica and Katelin are other "SALTers" in my same program, and Kaylie (next to me) is here for three years working with the Lao Disabled Women's Development Center. From the early days, we called ourselves the "Awkward Falong (foreigner) Support Group" and would swap stories about culturally inappropriate things we'd accidentally done, or weird things people said to us, or the countless times people ask us to teach them English.