Wednesday night we took a bunch of students next door to the hotel for dinner. It was nice. They brought us flowers. I got beautiful sunflowers. We all wore our traditional Vietnamese outfits to teach in and for dinner. Everyone was staring at us. It was rather amusing. They liked that we wore them. I'm not sure if they ever saw foreigners wear them before.
Thursday my class asked me to go to lunch with them. We went to a nice resturant not too far from the school. Then they wanted to go sing karaoke so I went with them for a little bit but I had to be back at the school because I had a 1:30pm class. It was alot of fun. I got to ride on the back of a motorbike!! It wasn't quite as scary as I thought it would be. Then my 1:30pm class got me a gift. It was two beautiful seashells with an intricate jungle designs in them. They are delicate!! I hope I can get them home in one piece!
We check out of our hotel tomorrow morning. We leave by train tomorrow night for Vinh. Pray for us!! I think it will be difficult for us to adjust. We have been so spoiled here in Hanoi. The hotel rooms here are beautiful. They do our laundry for us and provide us daily with bottles of water. They call taxi's for us when we needed to go to school and the school pays for them as well as our meals here at the hotel in the dining room. We just had to sign for them. Vinh will be quite different. Students have also told us that it is hotter there too. It also doesn't get too many foreigners so we will be more closely monitored and stared at as well. Marsha has had some interesting experiences with being stared at. When we went to the one place, a girl came up and stood beside her while her friend took their picture. It's been funny. She's like a celebrity.
Pray as we head into new experiences.
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