8.30.2009

Vietnam After 3 Weeks

It's been 3 weeks since i've arrived in hanoi. if you take away the heat, the humidity, and the midnight stomachaches--it's not so bad. I'm just gonna make a quick list aboutVietnam so far.

Hits:

  • 1700+ miles away from parents. wooooohooooo, hell yeah!
  • cheap, amazing food and drinks --> hmmmm hoa qua dam
  • most everything you want is within a walking distance
  • so much movement and liveliness, you can just see it in the streets
  • friendly people
  • hanging out with fellow students
  • visiting family in hanoi
  • night markets
  • I can find my SIZE, for everything! wooohoooo, definitely a major plus.
  • killer massages, oh yeahhhhhh!
  • karaoke bars
  • more nap times
  • fun classes at HANU, despite the limited offerings
  • they have guitars here!
  • cinema that actually reserved seats for you
  • huge dorm room, cheap rent
  • future class trips outside of hanoi
  • skateboarders under the statue of lenin
  • motorbikes are sooo fun to ride--ah hemmm on the back of course...
  • relearning vietnamese
  • Doremon mangas! still trying to find other mangas!


Misses:
  • steven is not here
  • dusts and blarring noises
  • chaotic traffic system
  • hard to find ketchup --> so far i cannot find it, expect in pizza hut
  • smokers everywhere! especially in clubs. the whole dance floor looks foggy.
  • annoying men who do not understand their male privilege!
  • limmited classes to take --false advertisement: no vietnamese literature classes even if the program innitially proclaims it have them.
  • maldevelopment --> aims to exclude huge percentage of the poor, widen the gap of poverty
  • wayyyy too young Asian women with really old Caucasian men. creepy. am i the only one who thinks this is abnormal?
  • rave or trance music
  • too much hw

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