Every last Friday of the month we teachers usually go out. Tonight we will go again. This time I'll join. It has been a fair few months since I had energy enough to do so. Having young kids at home is not often a stimulus for late nights out.... And there were always things to do, like moving house, someone sick, full house with guests.... Not tonight. Tonight I'll go out as well and check whether the 'Yangon scene' has changed over the last few months.... (the last time I had a night you can decently call 'late' was January 2011!).
We go to the staple-of-staples for this kind of thing.. Friendship which is a bar/restaurant on the corner of Inya Road and Shwegondain. In days of old, this was one of the few places where you could go without being stared at as a westerner and still get a good deal on the beer (the other places being expat hangouts like hotel bars).
I do know that things have changed beyond that already (the last time there were quite a few foreign/western faces in friendship. The Winner Inn, Savoy Hotel, and Guest Care are all within walking distance, and hotels are bordering on full lately). I think we go this time because of its convenient location and we know everyone can find it after they have done their tuition 'duty' (all myanmar staff give tuition and homework lessons as a way to prop up salaries).
Hopefully I can persuade some colleagues to go dancing later, Probably in the Sedona since that is one of the best places for dancing still. Though new places are coming up. Maybe it is time to check some out. I just don't want to spend my evening between groups of late teens and early-twenties...
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