What is the environmental issue that you find most pressing for your country and/or for the world? What do you think can be done to help resolve this issue? What kinds of things are being done?

"What is the environmental issue that you find most pressing for your country and/or for the world?  What do you think can be done to help resolve this issue?  What kinds of things are being done?"

The ongoing controversial environment issue in my country is the hydro power project of the Mekong River. Giving away the country's river for a new fancy dam is going to make a drastic change to the wildlife in the Mekong River.For example, The Irrawaddy dolphin is going to be extinct because of they have to find their own places to lay the eggs and moving the habitats for the other season. the problem is the fish and the dolphin can't swim through the dam. Undoubtedly, this situation will destroy the animal habitats and the fish. Due to the fact that Laos is still a young nation in its primary development stages, it will need a lot of potential economic development to grow as a country. For this reason, The young nation like Laos has to prosper the economy by making use of the natural resources.  With the join-venture between China and Laos, the country itself decides to build a dam and make a fortune with its hub of electricity. Apparently,there are approximately six dams belongs to China and one or two in neighboring countries. I can't imagine how annihilation it will cause for the wildlife and biodiversity of the Mekong region. However, the hydro power project is still moving on and seems to accomplish in few more years. Nothing can be done to help protecting the fish because the big dollars they can get from this project is their desires. The contract has signed already and the MRC(Mekong River Commission)  agreed with the government's aim because it's not the wrongdoing at all to build the dam base on its policy.

The only thing I can tell is that if you invade the nature and its cycle, you destroy the whole biodiversity.

However, the government can use the benefit of this develop the country's infrastructure no matter we have to let the Chinese use the dam first and wait for several years to possess the fancy hydro power project. 

The Niagara Fall and The Genessee Country Museum's Evaluation blogpost

"The best-ever waterfall that I've seen and the fantastic country museum" This statement best describe how grateful I am towards these two trips.

Back when I was in Laos, I've always wanted to visit the Niagara Fall and Wow it's so stunningly beautiful. All of us went there early in the morning and it took us for few hours to get there. would have been great if I had a breakfast. Anyway, when we first arrived there, Fiona, Phina, Teresa, Fazona and me, went up to buy the tickets and we decided to cruise along the river. After that, we got on a boat with a bunch of people wearing the blue raincoats haha. I was so excited and here comes the great adventure!! we got to see the Niagara Fall in a very high definition and the water sprayed on us while we were cruising along the river. I love every moment of it!  And, yea this was the greatest part of the show.
For the Genessee Country Museum, I love it too. All of the old stylish carriages, the beautiful houses, and the cutest dresses they wore was like a fairy tale. I love everything there except the fact that I had to walk during the hottest time of the day. But yea, that was fine :) It was worth walking though. For the most part, I like the oldie houses there. The reason is there were all beautiful houses and it looked nice and warm when I walked passed by the houses there. Besides seeing the cows, turkeys, barley and corn field, all those things, The beautiful old houses was what attract me the most. And, this is the end of my evaluation's process. 
 Thank you for giving me such a meaningful time here. Thank somebody who took us there :)

My opinion on the healthcare in Laos

What I genuinely feel about the healthcare in my home country is influenced by my parents which both of them are doctors working at the hospital and the ministry of health. In other words, my mother is a doctor whose job has to take care of the patients and my father has to build more hospital in rural areas depends oh his project he works on.Therefore, I have acquired a lot of knowledge of how things are in healthcare area and heard a lot of complaint since my mom always bring it up during the dinner table. A lot of Lao people, including myself, feel unsatisfied with the overall picture of hospital because the facilities are still poor due to the lack of funding and country's development status. For this reason, most people especially the upper class choose to go to neighboring countries to receive a better healthcare. It's the undeniable and disgusting truth that people who reside in rural area get no chance to a primary healthcare for the most part. Hopefully, there will be a better future for Lao to get rid of the healthcare's issue and get to meet the standardization that a good hospital suppose to be.