In the spring of 2005 I travelled 7 weeks across Laos and Vietnam. On this journey I met people, partly by incident, partly because I searched for certain institutions. In the end I gathered 10 interviews with novices of temples, the head of a a center for kids living on the street, UNICEF, an administrative of SNV, but also workers and leaders of different institutions like the Archive of Traditional Music, the National Music School or the Childrens Cultural Center.