Every day, she and her mom prepare food for everyone.
Besides those furry friends, I also saw some small lizards, which you can find scaling the walls of almost every house, school, restaurant, and coffee shop in Soc Trang. They are harmless to humans. These lizards spend most of their time searching for things to eat. They love eating mosquitos, so people don't mind if the lizards hang around.
I think the coolest thing I saw in nature this week was a rice field. Maybe a rice field is not that cool by itself, I guess. However, my friend and I drove past one in the late afternoon one day this week and when I saw it, I felt very close to nature and close to Vietnam. Rice is one of the main foods that is produced and consumed by people in Vietnam. Driving past the field, I could smell the young rice plants growing in water. Rice is grown in Soc Trang using both rain water and the water from the rivers that flow through this region. So this field, like all of the rice fields you can find throughout Soc Trang, is symbolic of the natural environment here and how important it is to people's lives in southern Vietnam.
Soc Trang is a unique place with regard to languages. There are several different people groups living in Soc Trang who have their own distinctive cultures: Kinh (another name for Vietnamese), Khmer, Hoa (a name for people whose ancestors came from different parts of China) and Cham.
Khmer people are the "indigenous", or native, people of this region.
