hey hey!

So i have now kinda settled into my placement. Everybody is very very nice, and bridge and i seem to be invited out left right and centre! We already have 3 teachers who want to show us thier families and how to cook traditional Vietnamese food! we have had many a lunch and dinner, which is good, cause a girls gotta each - even if i only just got my appitite back!
just the other day infact, we went out with all the teachers from the school, just to the school canteen, but it was good food, and as tradition dictates, we had to have a shot of "wine" - which is more like vodka, but stronger - with every teacher for good luck and good health. Even though we were told we didnt HAVE to "bottoms up" it was clear that if we didnt we wouldn't be regarded so highly. As a result we downed about 15 shots each and became somewhat tipsy in no time. It was all in good fun however, and we got walk to our door by Ms. Rose - thats right, her english name is Rose, not as bad as some others ... Ms. Water, Ms. Birth... - but they are all loverly.

Everything is very cheap, as you may have guessed, and its lots of fun just kicking around looking for things. Becuase my placement is pretty rural, there are only a few shops, and we get bored rather easily, we are travelling around alot.
Viet Duc is the school, and close by there is a small town called Song Cong Town. its about 5 minutes by Xe Om (Motor bike, pronunced ze om) That is an exciting experience in itself speading down these roads. Normally, we catch a bus to either Thai Nguyen or Hanoi, each 45 minutes or 1 1/2 hours respectfully. This can be a little coslty however, but becuase of the isolation, it is nice to head into Hanoi for a short while and stay overnight with other gappers.

We havn't started teaching yet, but today we got the books that the students work out of. They are just simple comprehension typoe things so they dont seem to be like much fun, but i have BIG plans. It will be interesting to see if they work though...

Pictures will be comming soon, so just hold your horses