Rose and Sam's Excellent Adventure

Long time no post! It’s been so long, this post might be very short.

We celebrated Independence Day today, which marks the Vietnamese politely asking the French to leave and the French saying “Sure, fine. Let’s go. We’d had enough anyway”. Actually, I think it was a little more involved than that, something about Dien Bien Phu? Anyway. Moving right along.

Hanoi went off tonight, I’ve never seen choked traffic like I did tonight. It was wheel to wheel, shoulder to shoulder and traffic coming every way besides up and down. Every other direction was accounted for. Photos of Lenin Park have been uploaded. Check out the set on our flickr page (see top of page navigation bar for the link).
Here’s a video of some skateboarders in Lenin Park tonight.

I bought a new motorcycle. The latest model Honda Super Dream 100cc. It’s a great ride. It’s the most comfortable and easy bike to ride. Unbelieveably stable at slow speeds. Never ridden anything like it. It’s just a rock at slow speeds, and the seat is so comfortable you don’t feel a thing, even after sitting in it for an hour and a half. The transmission is so easy to ride. It’s not fussy what gear you put it in, you can have high revs in the 2nd gear range and have wicked acceleration, or in that range, you can easily have it in 4th gear and the engine is like a teddy bear and very very smooth. It’s a luxury to have such an easy bike to ride.

I’m loving teaching at Just Kids. I look forward to going to work everyday. Staff are great, kids are largely great and my assistant teachers are wicked. Last month’s theme was “Performing Arts” which is kinda a weird topic to try to teach to Vietnamese kindy kids so we just hammered the circus theme with everything from DVDs to making clown hair hats out of showercaps, wool, tinsel and straws. See the results of this here and here.

For those who aren’t subscribed to my YouTube channel, which I highly discourage, I’ll post some videos of break-time, insanity fueled, screaming sessions. Turn up that sound, kids.

Annabelle will be touching down this Friday morning for about 9 days which will be fun. Stay tuned…

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