It is Tuesday, day two of classes. I have my last class in a few hours at 3. Things have gotten better since we first got here. After communicating our concerns about the bathroom with the head priest here he arranged to move us into another room in the main compound but they had to do some repairs first...namely installing a/c for us. This morning I used the shower for the first time and I was SO excited to have such good water pressure. I'll post a picture later...It's funny how excited I am over a bathroom that normally would be enough to convince someone otherwise of coming to Vietnam...The shower literally is pvc piping just barely positioned above my height and there were lizards all over the wall this morning.
Also it's been a bit frustrating because FB is blocked. I'm able to use it through Opera but I still can't upload any pictures which is really frustrating! My clasroom is pretty nice except when the power is done and we don't have any fans :( The weather here is so humid...I find myself completely drenched in sweat by the end of each session...but nowhere near as tired as I was last year. The food here is :/. We gave a list to the cook requesting other foods, a lot of them were things we tried in Hue last year.
Last night was really cool because we went to Thong's house for dinner. He shadowed us last year in Hue to help set up the program here and Vinh and it was nice to spend the evening with his family...and eat some of the amazing food they gave us. I filled up on rice, tofu, bamboo and goat and a few mugs of Hanoi beer.
We can't leave the compound for cafe sua da until next week :(
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