I dont know if I`ve ever mentioned it before, but I am living in a slum. During the last months a Slum had been created now surrounding my condominium. The inhabitants are as far as I know all construction workers from Isaan.
At night the dirt road that leads from my home to the main road is not illuminated, but I have never been scared to walk through it. Only during the early evening hours I am scared of those low flying batst hat might get stuck in my hair.
The houses of the slum consist only from a couple of wooden poles and six pieces of wielded iron that are nailed to the for walls and on the roof. The people shower outside.
On Saturday nights there is always party with Mor Lum music, drinking and dancing. On the day people will rummage through the rubble and hammer the steel out of the concrete parts that they can find. Also they are looking in the trash cans for glas, paper, cans and plastic and anything else that can be sold. In the evening they will burn their rubish.
Actually everyboy that I met on that pot hole road is pretty nice and sometimes even shy. This is maybe because I am coming from a differnet world and also a different class of society. Anyway, we sit together at the same tables, drinking and eating. As long es they don`t mind – cause I don`t care.





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