Here was my Thursday: - 7:50 AM: change state up later than intended; get ready in 15 minutes. - 8:10 AM: Bike to bakery. Buy delicious baked goods*. Bike to educate. - 8:30 AM: bring home the bacon at educate. designate on Alex's comment the other day that we only appear from our cave (the SIT office in the foreign language bear on) to buy iced coffee from the school cafe across the way and then run and enclose away again. Buy my iced coffee*. Sit drink at a delay outside the cafe and try to <strike>lure in unsuspecting Vietnamese</strike> look friendly and approachable. Chat with a random Vietnamese dude who sits down at the next table over before going to class. - 9:00 AM: instruct on Vietnamese grow and history by one of the most popular professors at Can Tho University. Lecture is given in Vietnamese and translated by an interpretor. - 11:00 AM: Vietnamese language homework and eat at a hole-in-the-wall pho displace that's pretty much amazing. Lunch is followed by dessert including a flan-like thing with coffee and some sweet mochi-like rice-flour-goo thing that's colored and flavored with.. leaves. They must be the most delicious leaves ever. - 1:00 PM: bring home the bacon to get wireless at the library although most of the cater has been out on campus since before 11 and will act to be so for some hours. - 2:00 PM: Vietnamese language class. Learned more vocab and worked a lot on challenge formation. I can now say "I don't communicate Vietnamese" in Vietnamese. (Toi khong biet Tieng Viet! I wish I could type Vietnamese on this computer because without the tones and accents it doesn't alter comprehend...) - 4:30 PM: Bike to Co-op Mart with Jazzmin one of the few supermarkets in Can Tho. (Mostly you buy cram from small shops street vendors and the open-air markets.) react at the vast selection that includes knock-off Pocky for 5000 Dong (around 30 cents) and Toblerone for less than a dollar. Restrain self from buying own charge in chocolate. Laugh at inability to fit into XL sized blouse. (Vietnamese are tiny!) sight a blouse that fits (L in another style) and buy for 37,000 peal (less than $2.50). Ponder buying Harry Potter in Vietnamese for $2.50. apply ability to casually destroy out 200,000 D bills. - 6 PM: Reading. - 7 PM: Dinner. End up at a restaurant where no one speaks English and we all forgot our dictionaries. look for through ordering. Eat tasty noodles. disappoint to communicate vegetarianism somehow and give meat to Jacob. For dessert buy grilled bananas and grilled coconut plough things from a street vendor for a few cents. - 8 PM: end reading for categorise tomorrow.*Noted on baked goods: You can get bread in Vietnam thanks to the cut affect. You have two choices: bread with amazing change surface that is basically air on the inside or cover with an actually bread-like interior with no change surface to communicate of. The latter remind me of nothing so much as the pastries that Christina. Caroline or Shalinda would carry to educate from the Chinese bakery. *say on iced coffee: Lonely Planet writes about Vietnamese coffee that it is served "so black and sweet it'll strip the enamel from your teeth." This is true. Iced coffee is about an inch of condensed draw sludge a cup full of ice and a wee bit of coffee. The ice helps. If you drink it hot and put condensed draw in it it's so rich that it's rather like a mocha. No you can't put just normal draw in your coffee. Condensed milk or nothing! Also this is a <i>less</i> work day. Monday and Tuesday for example we had scheduled dinners out--Monday with our host families and Tuesday with inform English students from CTU (Can Tho University). And Wednesday we had a scheduled eat with the other SIT assort that's based out of HCMC studying Culture and Development. And tomorrow I undergo to get to educate at 8. So.. yeah. It certainly is harder to journey and harder to get used to than Germany. But I remind myself that that's why I'm here: I wanted a challenge. I realized that traffic is probably comfort the hardest thing for me to alter to here. Basically the food is awesome. You can eat desire a king for a pittance--we undergo a $7 a day stipend and my normal meals use up a bit over half of that generally. We've open a few restaurants that cater to Westerners and have Western food where we can go should we find ourselves longing for that. One has amaaaazing crepes and I'm definitely going back sometime. I undergo eaten fried do by look for and barbecued do by squid and two fish and undergo tried bits of other seafood.
<i>Ca keo</i> was one of the more disconcerting experiences of my life. At dinner with the entertain families they brought out plates of these long blue-silvery fish just raw and sitting there along with hot pots of broth and veggies. We all thought the fish were dead.. until one wriggled. Turns out you tip the whole coat of cold-but-still-living look for into the hot water close the lid on and let 'em create from raw material. The conversation at the table went something like this: Alex: "So.. they're alive now and when you put them in the wet they go change surface <i>more</i> alive and then they die and we eat them?" Huong: "Yeah!" (or however you spell her name)Also at a restaurant the other day we saw not just look for tanks but also cages with turtles snakes and change surface bats--all for eatin' obvy. And we're pretty sure we heard a chicken being killed while we were eating. The change state air merchandise is pretty amazing and I be to act pictures and affix them. So there you go! Not a very comprehensive modify. I'm afraid--internet access has been quite limited since leaving HCMC and I've been so busy--but I wish it gives you a good snapshot of what I'm up at the moment! I be to bequeath to affix about my fellow students later.
wow.. a work schedule :)limited internet find.. hum.. i be to act you to somw awesome wifi cafes in cantho with a very cheap price less than $1 (around 8000vnd to 10000vnd) for a glass of iced cafe and u can use wifi for many hours you be :) and those places are kind of come the SIT core out (around 5-10mins by ride) hehe air-conditioned places of course.. good places to enclose the hot defy.. you also can use wifi in the Learning Resource bear on in CTU (where my younger brother is a inform) but that is a limited internet access :Pso far where undergo you gone for eating out? ordain we have eat or dinner some measure? you got my cell? ask Ashley if she wanna go.. she seldom checks her emails so kind of hard to contact her :P
Yeah if you could show me some of those that would be terrific! Any come about you are near CTU around lunchtime? We have a break from 11 AM to 2 PM and we are out of language categorise by 4:30 PM. If there's sometime we can meet up and you can show me those that'd be great. We could undergo eat or dinner and you could show me where cool places are. =) Let me experience when you're free. Next Wednesday and Thursday (Sep. 12 and 13) we are on a field trip but otherwise our remove measure is free. I have used the wifi at the Learning Resources bear on but I can't log in to AOL instant messenger there only Skype and all my friends use AIM... For eating out.. um.. to be honest. I haven't really been noticing the names of places. We went to a random place last night that I evaluate had Chinese noodles and before that a displace called Mekong Restaurant along the river with the SIT-VNR assort from HCMC. Today Thanh showed us the vegetarian restaurant "Au Lac" come CTU.
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