A Summary

[pukiban]

I really hate 'summary of what I'm doing posts.' They're not fun for me to write, not fun for me to read later, and I suspect not really fun for other people to read. So for my Vietnam Adventure I figure I'll write in themed posts on...whatever's fun to write about. On the other hand, when I know someone who's gone somewhere interesting, I do

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[bloodred0_4]

Ah, it's good to hear from you! I hope that you're well in Vietnam (!?) -- or, erm, as well as you can possibly be after the bit with the scooter. Have you been enjoying yourself? Are you planning on making any excursions as a family outside of Cuchi?
(And alsom what is the "market" if it isn't a market?)

[pukiban]

Haha, yeah, I'm in Vietnam cause my family is trying to set up this American guy with one of our cousins, and they basically asked if I'd like to tag along? ^_^; Only the guy ended up not coming, but my brother and I already had our tickets so here we are.

It's...great to *be* out of the country and in such a different place, and it's very pretty. But...I don't exactly want to call it "dissapointing," but...I guess hanging around the house with family (which really mostly means reading, drawing, and messing around on the computer by myself) in Vietnam isn't *that* much different from doing it in America. You feel like there's this big potential to see some interesting things...but we don't have much control of what we end up doing, and that mostly means 'nothing that interesting.' And you just feel...wasteful? And bad for hanging around the house of the family you barely know all day while they insist on paying for everything for you. ^_^;

[bloodred0_4]

Haha! Oh my, that certainly sounds like quite the backstory!

I get what you mean -- I usually wind up feeling like this whenever we go to visit relatives, too. After a while I just feel so awkward.
Vietnam might not seem that exotic to you now, but it still sounds very interesting to me! How did you get to your relatives' house? Was it an ordinary journey, or did you see anything beautiful along the way? I'd probably that annoying person that can't stop taking pictures. xD

[pukiban]

After we got off the plane we just came by car, it's only like a 30 or so minute drive from the airport. It's pretty here, and you'll see things you just won't see in America, like what I think are propoganda billboards or huge piles of hay or piles of burning trash on the side of the road everywhere and such. Haha, sometime I feel bad taking pictures, cause then I think, 'People are going to ask to look through our pictures later, and then they're going to have to look at all the crappy things I took photos of.'

[pukiban]

I'm not sure, I haven't gotten to poke one. They don't seem that afraid of humans, though.

I'll talk about the market later. ^_^;