Update on my friend Phonesay

A few months ago I posted photos of my friend Phonesay Silivan from Laos. He was from a poor village in Northern Laos and spent 10 years as a monk, partly as a way of obtaining an education. He works for an Australian NGO as a translator as he speaks Lao, Thai and English. I have no idea what he is doing up this tree.
His wife and baby daughter, born last summer.


Looking for land mines. Luckily he is going to be in Vientiane this month during the time I will be there. I missed seeing him on my last visit there.