Right here in Vietnam
I'm starting to really, really like Vietnam.
The traffic in Ho Chi Minh City is awesome beyond words. A huge number of motorcyles zooming around with helmetless people on it, and blaring horns is a common thing. Not to mention how sometimes the red, yellow, green in traffic lights all means 'Go' XDXD.
I especially love the part when you see motorcycles from coming towards you from the opposite direction.
Crossing the road for the first few days was definitely an adventure hahahha!
Pronouncing Vietnamese words is also an adventure XDXD. God knows how many words I mispronounced since I've gotten here. At the Immigration, I told the officer, "Come on" instead of "Kam en" (written as Cam On), which was hilarious because I was given the WTF look.
Quy (sounds a bit like 'Wey') , this kid from the 15 May School, gave me a name in Vietnamese: Than Thuy. At first he kept thinking I'm Vietnamese and spoke to me, and I really wished I could understand what he's saying because he's an awesome kid!
In the beginning, I called him the 'Duncha' kid XDXD because one time, the SEALnet members were playing a game with our mentees and basically the forfeiter has to sing a song, and I was trying this guy to sing, 'Doncha wish your girlfriend was hot like me~~" XDDD. Quy picked up 'Doncha' and everytime he sees me, he yells, 'DONCHA!' Other than that, we've also switched names (his suggestion, so I am 'Quy' and he's 'Gianne') and I taught him a bit of Malay. On a serious side, he's a really sweet kid.
Who likes to poke me in the sides.
If anyone knows me in real life, they'd know how smiley of a person I am. I smile all the time, and maybe some people might think that I'm being insincere by doing that. It's not that, really; generally I'm an easily amused person. So I felt a bit surprised when I noticed there's one boy in the school who rarely smiles. He would play with people and balance on a big ass metal ball and still no smile.
I wonder if that's how you'll be like when your parents betrays you.
One time he gave me a small sweet smile and at that moment I felt I could go to Vietnam just for that smile.
Some kids there are really cheeky... and rather poser-ish hahaha! Like Casanovas in training!!! I was getting emails from some of them there and one of the 'poser' boys wrote a sentence in Vietnamese. Puzzled, I asked Linh for the meaning and she laughed, going, "Oh who wrote this?!?" The meaning turns out to be, "If you love me, you gotta line up" or smthg to that extent. HAHAHA!!
Okay, his handwriting is a bit difficult to read, but this is what I can see (without the tones): niv muon yeu anh xep, hang diem.
Today we took a 2++ hour bus ride to an orphanage in Tay Minh (gotta check that up) where there's no tall building... only glorious fields of crops. They needed a cow so SEALnet provided them with one. There, we divided up. Some played with the children, some cleared an area from weeds (me!) and repairing the cow shed. Despite being very deep inside an area, they are pretty capable on their own as they grow their own food etc.
As for the other people in SEALnet, oh gosh, they're this amazing bunch of people. Which makes them slightly intimidating to me haha. It took me a while to warm up to them, and I'm glad I did. After spending about 5 days with them, I have quite a number of amusing anecdotes like how this guy purposely used the flirtatious 'Em oy' on the hotel receptionist.
Who is also a guy.
'Em oy' is like 'Hola mamasita~' or 'Hey baby' (in a less sketchy way haha), and you've gotta say it in a flirtatious way to get the 'effect'.
My roommate is in the band in Stanford University and her band does really cool things like protesting logging in their way (which got them banned in the state they performed that in XDXD).
I tihnk I better stop now... is anyone actually still reading my shit? XDXD
The traffic in Ho Chi Minh City is awesome beyond words. A huge number of motorcyles zooming around with helmetless people on it, and blaring horns is a common thing. Not to mention how sometimes the red, yellow, green in traffic lights all means 'Go' XDXD.
I especially love the part when you see motorcycles from coming towards you from the opposite direction.
Crossing the road for the first few days was definitely an adventure hahahha!
Pronouncing Vietnamese words is also an adventure XDXD. God knows how many words I mispronounced since I've gotten here. At the Immigration, I told the officer, "Come on" instead of "Kam en" (written as Cam On), which was hilarious because I was given the WTF look.
Quy (sounds a bit like 'Wey') , this kid from the 15 May School, gave me a name in Vietnamese: Than Thuy. At first he kept thinking I'm Vietnamese and spoke to me, and I really wished I could understand what he's saying because he's an awesome kid!
In the beginning, I called him the 'Duncha' kid XDXD because one time, the SEALnet members were playing a game with our mentees and basically the forfeiter has to sing a song, and I was trying this guy to sing, 'Doncha wish your girlfriend was hot like me~~" XDDD. Quy picked up 'Doncha' and everytime he sees me, he yells, 'DONCHA!' Other than that, we've also switched names (his suggestion, so I am 'Quy' and he's 'Gianne') and I taught him a bit of Malay. On a serious side, he's a really sweet kid.
Who likes to poke me in the sides.
If anyone knows me in real life, they'd know how smiley of a person I am. I smile all the time, and maybe some people might think that I'm being insincere by doing that. It's not that, really; generally I'm an easily amused person. So I felt a bit surprised when I noticed there's one boy in the school who rarely smiles. He would play with people and balance on a big ass metal ball and still no smile.
I wonder if that's how you'll be like when your parents betrays you.
One time he gave me a small sweet smile and at that moment I felt I could go to Vietnam just for that smile.
Some kids there are really cheeky... and rather poser-ish hahaha! Like Casanovas in training!!! I was getting emails from some of them there and one of the 'poser' boys wrote a sentence in Vietnamese. Puzzled, I asked Linh for the meaning and she laughed, going, "Oh who wrote this?!?" The meaning turns out to be, "If you love me, you gotta line up" or smthg to that extent. HAHAHA!!
Okay, his handwriting is a bit difficult to read, but this is what I can see (without the tones): niv muon yeu anh xep, hang diem.
Today we took a 2++ hour bus ride to an orphanage in Tay Minh (gotta check that up) where there's no tall building... only glorious fields of crops. They needed a cow so SEALnet provided them with one. There, we divided up. Some played with the children, some cleared an area from weeds (me!) and repairing the cow shed. Despite being very deep inside an area, they are pretty capable on their own as they grow their own food etc.
As for the other people in SEALnet, oh gosh, they're this amazing bunch of people. Which makes them slightly intimidating to me haha. It took me a while to warm up to them, and I'm glad I did. After spending about 5 days with them, I have quite a number of amusing anecdotes like how this guy purposely used the flirtatious 'Em oy' on the hotel receptionist.
Who is also a guy.
'Em oy' is like 'Hola mamasita~' or 'Hey baby' (in a less sketchy way haha), and you've gotta say it in a flirtatious way to get the 'effect'.
My roommate is in the band in Stanford University and her band does really cool things like protesting logging in their way (which got them banned in the state they performed that in XDXD).
I tihnk I better stop now... is anyone actually still reading my shit? XDXD