We are having a great time in Vietnam, we have been really busy lately and have experienced alot of Hanoi and will be sad to leave.
The city is breathtakingly beautiful, the diversity of people and the richness of culture are engaging. We are eating lotssss of new "mystery" foods and we are doing lots of shopping. We cycled around the whole city and in the past two days we have already seen Temple of Literature, the Mausoleum, and tonight we experienced the famous water puppet show. It was awesome. The traffic is nuts but we've managed to avoid much trouble so far... The drinking water is undrinkable but thats ok cause now we are living off coke... A new experience for Maddy. Michaela & Savannah are super organised and can navigate their way through any maze which is a skill we all appreciate, Kira and Alice are our friendly interperaters with the locals and Bridget is getting many marriage offers from everyone including Maddy. Emma is our walking, talking caulculator. Alice is our body gaurd and fights off over excited street benders. Yesterday we went shopping in the old Hanoi Markets where we spent alot of money on toys, nappies and blankets amongst other stuff for the orphanage. It was a good feeling to put our shopping knowledge to good use, Rabia has mastered the art of haggling and Domi is fearless at crossing the road. We hit the markets and the damage control is off the charts. We are seeing a CRAZY side of Mrs Langford and Ms Butler and we like it. They are willing to eat anything and have earned a reputaion of an iron stomach. Hope that doesn't backfire "pardon the pun". Travis must have swallowed a Lonley Planet at birth and is constantly entertaining us with many interesting nosies.
Tomorrow we are heading off to a super fun trek hopefully we will avoid any man eating mosquitos.
We miss you all back home and hope you are well.
Love Team Vietnam X
Hi Team,
ReplyDeleteIt's wonderful to see and hear your news. I'm glad you are having a great time....while we are still at school. Take care, Love from Annette Whiteway
Hi Everyone,
ReplyDeleteWish I was there! Reading your blog just brought back so many memories. Love to all Madame Del Vecchio - enjoy the TREK Sapa is absolutely amazing!
great to hear you are having such a good time! The rest will not disappoint - I can guarantee that wish - I was there with you :) stay safe Ms A
ReplyDeleteSounds fabulous. You seem to have crammed so much into just a couple of days. Have a great trek.
ReplyDeleteNelma
Hi Team Vietnam,
ReplyDeleteIt is great to hear that you are ok. We hope you are having a great time in Vietnam. Send us another photo soon! We have all the photo's and emails on our kitchen wall at home.
Love Elena, Marisa and Luke :) :)
Dear Micky,
ReplyDeleteToday we went swimming, it was really good. We also had a party at school. We all had to bring in something from our immigrant's country, so I brought in Pizza.
Hope your having a fantastic time!
Love Elena, Luke and Marisa :) :)
Hope that the coke hasn’t sent you completely round the twist. Try not to catch jungle fever, trench foot, or the plague. Bernie says that there’s something on your face – and that you’re fat. Isn’t she horrible. Dad wore the poofy hat to speech and awards last night – Anna loved it. Love Zac Efron and R Patz. Mum loves you, and wants you to wash behind the ears.
ReplyDeleteHey Mix, Sav, Alice and Emma,
ReplyDeleteI hope you have a safe trek and make sure you look out for each other (e.g.if you see a strange insect flying around, whatever you do don’t tell Sav about it, or else the whole of Vietnam will hear her scream.)
Mrs JC's speech was 55min 26sec, she hit a record. Congratulations Alice you won the Geography award and you also got peer tutor for 2010, also Congratulations to Emma she also got peer tutor.
Mix your sister was awarded a prize to(she was also great in choir).
Hope you’re having fun; can’t wait to hear from you soon.
Love you guys heaps
Annabelle xxxxxx