November Rain
So, the plan was to write at least one entry about November but looks like we failed again!
So here is the low down on the 11th month.
Can’t really remember, so in no particular order:
We went on a wicked ride on the bike out of Hanoi for a few hours into the countryside which was heaps of fun, and we have some good photos that we (I mean Sam) will post later. It was nice to get out of the City and we have been trying to get out there again ever since. Some funny things happened but it was so long ago I can’t recall them.
Vietnam has this awesome day called Teachers Day on the 20th Nov. Great day, Sam and I got showered with presents, ties, scarves, and flowers, and all the parents thank you for teaching their offspring. It was fun. Sam got a card saying ‘from your people’ which he will take to the grave no doubt.
Then all the Just Kids Teachers went out for dinner at the Sen restaurants. Riding at night through Hanoi with 12-15 Vietnamese girls on motorbikes was one of the most fun things we have done here – probably the closest I will ever feel to being in a motorcycle gang, (though, you never know what the future holds).
In more motorbike news I have been learning to ride the bike – I am learning in front of Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum of all places! Very cool. Sam is a great teacher and I can now turn the bike which is a generally useful skill unless you only want to ride the Eyre highway in Australia. Still not out on the roads …yet. I am adverse to other traffic.
We have had more visitors – the Jeani-Beanie from the UK, she is sailing in Thailand and popped over for 2 weeks for a visit, which was lovely. We did the usual and she spent a lot of time walking around where we live getting to know the area.
I also started a new course Teaching English through Drama, which we have had 2 classes for.I wrote the curriculum and so far it is going well, the kids really dig it, and we are having lots of fun – all those Drama classes are coming in handy and yet I still haven’t needed trigonometry since high school…. Drama the practical choice.
The kindy kids are going well, growing very attached to them all. Phong is who in my little Ducks class (1 1/2 – 2 years old) said his first English words before speaking Vietnamese: Yellow, Green, and teacher, which was fun, we are currently expanding this to red and blue.
The Dolphins (3 years old) are fantastic and so much fin, I never thought I would like teaching such young kids but they are a hoot.
Sam sold the Honda 67 which was bitter-sweet, he sold it to his friend Hung so he was able to part with the bike, but was still a little heart broken. So we are a one bike house-hold.
Think that’s about it….Will post one for Dec soon.
Love youse all,
Rose
Oh what’s this? A new recruit for the Section 8’s? Brilliant!