austin's tea shop photo essay

Our Neighbors’ Lives

By: Austin

About a week ago my class and I went on a field trip to our teashop neighbor’s place. We went there to interview the neighbors and our group’s interviewee was a mother of 3 children. Now I would like to present a photo essay about our neighbor’s life.

Some of the neighbors here live in like thesewood houses just like Oh Mah Cho’s house. The had to build like these because there is little place and they don’t have much money to build big houses, so they use some thin wood around their to build them.

This a meal prepared by one of the neighbors. They would get the ingredients from the markets around them, and they would cook curries ike nga pyi chat and ah chin hinn and fried chickhen.

This is the buddha statue of Oh Mah Cho’s house. They would always give offering in the morning like it is their daily chores.

This a taxi of Oh Mah Cho’s husband. Instead of have a trishaw he has a taxi with more income. This is the only business for their family.

This is Oh Mah Cho’s children, they are really quiet. They attend to a burmese school unlike us and when they go sick they would go to the family doctor near their neighborhood.

This was set-up by a boy who wanted to play checkers with his friend. The place it was set-up in was on the trishaw parking lot.

This boy is one of the boy’s who plays in front of their neighbors gate. They know how to climb trees very fast. The tree they climb on is a strangler figged tree.

This man here is cutting cauliflowers to curries in his teashop. They have teashops because this is one of their income. They would also cook and give it to the monks that come around.

Credits

Ryan the Photo Man

Grace the Translator

Austin the Recorder

Thanks To:

Mr. Rinker For letting me borrow me a Photo