Insight into Lao culture and superstition #2
An employee of the embassy called in this morning to say she was very sorry but she would not be coming in until Thursday. She was very apologetic for not providing more notice, but said she'd just found out the day before that it was impossible for her to come in to work.
It seems they had some ceremony (I'm not entirely sure what type of ceremony) at their house over the weekend, and the head ceremony guy (priest, monk, shaman, again, no clue) said that they could not leave their house for 3 full days or something (again, don't know what) bad would happen.
So, said employee will be out Monday through Wednesday. Because you don't want to mess with something like that.
posted by Katherine and Phil @ 12:13 PM
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I remember when Phil used the same excuse to get out of a gripping early morning Russian Short Story class (in the dead of winter) for a few days (weeks?) Freshman year.
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