Football

Out in the hills somewhere between Kalaw and Nyaungshwe, we spent the night in a monastery in a little Pa-O (Black Karen) village. Said monastery seemed to be the social heart of the village, and at night people would gather there because there as nothing else to do and there was a TV and limited electricity there. Unfortunately for us, since we'd been hiking for about eight hours that day and we were beat and just wanted to sleep. Lucky for us, the World Cup came on at half past midnight, so in come the people, on comes the TV, loud is the volume. It was all in the one great hall of the monastery. There was no escaping the volume. No why was the volume even important? I believe it was being broadcast in English, which no one in the village speaks. Hm... Also strange because rural Myanmar people are completely diurnal. Farming and no electricity does dictate that. I guess it was a special occasion.