Magical World

Ok, so there’s a little story to tell about this little girl with the "Bambi-eyes".
Of course there are children trying to sell you stuff all over Myanmar (most of the time postcards, but also jewellery, or clothes) which is a little bit sad, because with the decline of tourism (90% less tourists than last year due to the events in September 2007) they are a little bit desperate.
On the other hand, one person can only buy so many postcards and even if we bought quite a lot (56 to be precise) sometimes we had to say no, which of course gets them disappointed a bit, but ok.
The funny thing is that they can all speak a few phrases in several languages, like English ("You want to buy? It’s not expensive! I made it myself. It’s local. One thousand."), French ("C’est pas cher! Je l’ai fait moi-meme! C’est local. C’est joli. C’est pas cher. Mille!") or Italian ("Mamma mia! Sono brava! L’ho facio io! Poco caro! Une milla!"). Now this little girl (we think she was about 4 years old) kept on repeating these same Italian sentences over and over again: "Mamma mia! Sono brava! L’ho facio io! Poco caro! Une milla!" with her small voice and looking up at us with her big bambi eyes… Really cute! So at some point Jean-Christophe just couldn’t say no anymore, he had to buy some necklace from her. This picture was taken after she sold us the necklace: she’s all happy about it, and Jean-Christophe too, with a huge grin on his face.