Just Another Day in the Classroom

Get ready for some traveler-envy:

Damn it was good.

Outside with the homestay family - Dr. Khoa, Ne and Dai. It has been so much fun.

We're going to a wedding!

The very handsome groom.

The bride, her parents and the Americans dressed in traditional ao dais.

A very happy father in law.

Low tide outside the resort.

For Mimi (the John Denver playing over the supermarket speakers is for you, too).

Billards - it is tough. I didn't do so hot in Dal Molins class.

That is a guard house, 4 meters above the low tide line. They keep watch over the oysters and blood cockles.

Classroom for the day.

I loved these oysters. So fab. While they were great raw (which they only really do for Westerners...), the cooked oysters and pineapple has nudged out previous meals and moved into my Top 5 foods from Viet Nam. Holy cow.

Bloog cockles. I destroyed these.

The Spirited Away bathhouse at high tide.

Just another day in the classroom...

Crab in tamarind sauce. A SECOND new Top 5 meal. Hot damn.

The bathhouse at low tide.

Then, after I come home tired and ready to study Vietnamese for my final exam this morning, my homestay dad says, get your helmet, we're going to a party. So I end up at a cafe with nine university professors, eating dog spring rolls and a Chinese aphrodisiac salad, drinking brandy and Heineken, and learning how to say "I'm drunk" in Vietnamese. Pretty boss, even with the underlying current of "I should be studying". But even that was banished from my body by the masseuse that was waiting for me in my own bedroom. Yes, when we got home, I was told to shower up and get ready for my massage. I've never had one before, and this was the real deal. My "power was restored" and I think I did alright on the test this morning.

But really, what does it matter? We leave for Cambodia tomorrow. I start taking anti-malarials today, and I'll post when I can.