First week in Vinh

We made it through our first week at Vinh. One more week left. It's different than Hanoi not a whole lot to do or variety either. No American food here. (I can get french fries at the one resturant :)
We are co-teaching with the Vietnamese so we don't have as much lesson planning to do. The students are at a low level of English and would have a hard time understanding us if we just spoke to them in English. Our classes are in the evening 5:45pm-9:45pm. We are just helping mainly with pronunciation.
The eight of us went and sang Karaoke last night after class. It was alot of fun.
Tuesday afternoon we spent some time at the orphanage. It was fun. The kids are great and well taken care of. They really wanted to practice their English. They'd ask the same questions over and over but it was nice that they were willing to talk to us. We sang songs and played some games with them. The orphanage is set up like a compound with eleven different houses, each house has a "parent" who looks after the children. There are about 11 children per house. So that is their family.
Saturday was really nice. The school administrators took us to the beach. It was beautiful!! I didn't swim. I walked along the shore and found some nice seashells. Then we ate very fresh seafood. One minute it was alive and kickin and the next we were eating it. There were women walking around with basins of water and live shrimp, crab, squid etc.. The administrators ordered squid, shrimp and crab. So the women cooked it for us and then we ate it. The shrimp was really good (though I had never had it with the heads on.) I had to learn how to eat them and the crab. I had never eaten them that way before. Then we went to Karaoke with them that evening. It was alot of fun and a really good day.
There have been more opportunities here for sharing with others. I haven't had the chance but those who have been here for the whole month have had some really good opportunities. They like it when we sing, so we've sung some good songs for them.
There is no church here so we've had devotions as a team. Steven bought a guitar in Hanoi so we've sung alot. Yesterday I did laundry and just relaxed. We watched movies on the computer.
Marsha is leaving tomorrow for Hanoi. Pray for her as she travels by herself.