I am back in Can Tho and soo incredibly excited about it! You have no idea how awesome it is to be home, or shall I say, “My Home Away from Home: Viet NAM Edition.” I have to specify since I do have other home away from homes. Well, I have been here almost a week, and soo many fun things have happened (but also really boring things). I don’t know where to start, so I will just give you some of the highlights. Get ready, there are A LOT!!
- On the night train from Phan Rang to Ho Chi Minh City, there was a fellow traveler in my cabin who smelled really bad. I don’t know what it was: his feet, his clothes, his rotting bananas? I don’t know. But I do know it definitely wasn’t farts, it stayed around the entire 8 hours. I challenge someone to fart for 8 hours straight with a constant stream of stench like that one.
- The next day when I got home, Trang got me a massage. I giggled through most of it, but tried to hide it as best I could. The masseuse was blind and didn’t speak English. I didn’t want him to feel bad.
- On Thanksgiving, I got a mani-pedi. Be jealous!
- On Thanksgiving, I went to the rented house where 4 of the SIT students are living, and had the wonderful cooking of Julia, Jana and Cassie. The food was awesome and just like America. It was so delicious, not nutritious, and actually made me want to vomit a little bit. No that sounds bad. I mean, I did want to vomit, but its just because I am not used to such rich food anymore. But no worries, Julia, Jana and Cassie are all great cooks, they never include food poisoning in their recipes.
- On Saturday, we decided to be adventurous. So we went to the movie theater/coffee shop to see Salt. First of all, we didn’t really know what we were supposed to do when we got there. So we did what we always do when we don’t know what to do. We stood around and waited for someone to do it for us. It worked. Second of all, the movie is supposed to be in English right? Wrong. It was in Russian and only the flashback scenes were in English. I don’t feel bad though. When I read the synopsis, I was so glad I could only get the drift of the major happenings. The plot was weird and not great.
- I taught a priest English. I think there might be a spot opening up for me in heaven after all.
- Last night, after going out for coffee with Trang, we stopped at Saigon bakery to get bread for her daughter. I saw this interesting cake with three layers there. It intrigued me and my hostmom saw that it intrigued me and bought it for me. It really confused me, because the layers were so stuck together, just perfect. I didn’t understand it. But then I discovered that (I’m pretty sure) they just buttered the cakes and stuck them together. It horrified me…but it was also soo desirable. Who knew butter and cake were so good together, well, except my whole family in America and anyone who eats banana bread. And although I wasn’t actually hungry, I ate it soo fast, I forgot to get a picture of it. Sorry!
Well, that’s it for now. But don’t worry, my addiction will set in again soon and you will probably hear about the adorable puppies that I sometimes see for sale on the side of the road, or how I sit in my room most of the time trying to force myself to do work or one of the other many things I feel you deserve to know about my Viet Nam trip!
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| I don't actually have any pictures from this week, so I give you polar bear pictures instead. Awesome picture taken from www.mypoweranimals.org |
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| OMG. Seriously, what could be cuter, right? Image taken from keetsa.com/blog |
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