SAPA O'CHAU ON INVITE MR WRIGHT TV!

Mr. Wright is a British glob-trotting TV presenter who makes short and often funny documentaries about interesting things across the world, Sapa and the hill tribes who live there being one of them!
He came to Sapa last year and spent quite some time with Sapa O'chau, teaching the children how to take photographs and talking to Shu Tan about her visions and ambitions for the project.
The show was shown LIVE on Friday afternoon in the Hmong Sisters Bar in Sapa. We took all 35-40 students and staff from the cafe and squished them into the bar like sardines in a can. They sat there intently watching themselves on television as they snacked on rare treats of choco-pies, crisps and fanta.

What a strange paradox, I thought: such un-worldy children watching themselves broadcast on TV shown across the whole of Asia. These kids don't even understand the concept of fame and most have never even been out of Sapa. They laughed at themselves, at Mr Wright's silliness and intolerance to rice wine and probably from their own intolerance to sugary drinks and choco-pies!
Me, Jenna and Tom also enjoyed an afternoon off from teaching an something different out of the classroom.

Gawping at the television