"my toe?"

Now we are to the point of when we arrived in My Tho… (pronounced Me Ta!! Oh dear I was saying “My toe” all along. WAY off!) Definitely way more humid here… But less crazy bikes everywhere. Our house lady is AWESOME and super sweet. They’re doing our laundry for us for less than one pound a week. SO amazing. And toilets are normal...THANK GOODNESS! Difficult to flush, but oh well. Dinner last night (Monday April April 6th) was funny. John is worse than I am about food. And we went to this cafe across from our house. Now in Vietnam... MOST normal Vietnamese not touristy food places..are outside… including kitchen and dining area. Dogs were running around. Dishes are washed on the ground. Its pretty ghetto… and pretty awesome. However, the cook was smoking a cigarette over the food and John freaked out. So we ended up leaving and going to an open food market. (which clearly wasn't any more hygienic! lol) poor guy. So we had some proper street food like the locals. And I had a massive bone!!! eek! OH and I saw the biggest rat ever! ah! BUT dinner was good. And we bought some groceries! :) Last night (Monday night) was early and we attempted fixing the camera… failed. Oh well. Also, on Tuesday I taught my first lesson. No one speaks English in my school. Besides the random hello. Megan is somewhere else at the local high school where she has a definite increase in communication abilities! Kinda makes me feel a bit alone. But the kids are cute and they mean well. So we will see how well I manage over the next couple of weeks!

Pictures: Jonny and I at the Indochine restaurant, me with some of my students (48 in that class alone!!!), so many wires above ground: serious fire hazard I’d imagine, and typical day in the life for a Vietnamese