These last two days I didn’t do much because Quang and Khoa had school half of the day. Yesterday I woke up and read Jane Austen’s Emma for a few hours. Really boring start by the way. Quang and Khoa came home for lunch and we cooked some chicken burgers. I read some more after they went back to class. Around 2, when they came home, Quang took Duy and I downtown to buy some stuff. We went to one of those open air markets which really reminds me of the French Market. We brought some fruits and looked around. Duy took a picture with a lady who was selling grilled corn. Being here is like a practice trial for going to Africa. It’s kind of like Africa in a way whichout all the political problems. The people here are so nice and carefree and they don’t stare at you. They just go about their business and not really worried about who’s there or not. I really like that. We went to the fish market, but they were trying to rip us off cause they think we don’t know the prices here so we didn’t buy anything. We went to the butcher and Quang brought a leg of beef. They had a few cows in the freezer, deskined. It was quite shocking. He just took a saw and sawed the foot off. I was just laughing, not sure why. We looked around some more downtown and went to get ice cream. I’ve been worried about myself and really thinking how well I’ll do aboard. This trip is making me rethink my ambitions in life and where I really want to end up. I’m not really sure anymore. It’s tough to say and I feel kind of depressed in a way.
Today, woke up early and went for a quick walk with Quang. Then I helped him roll some eggrolls. After they went to school, I went back to sleep. At 11 Khoa came home and took Duy and I to lunch. The food was okay, it was more of American style though. We stopped by the University, which is this small campus and picked Quang up. We drove along the Eastern side of the island to go to this place called Devil’s Bridge. It’s a little strip of rocks that connect a moon shape cliff, it’s real small. The waves were crashing against the rocks and we took some pictures. They say this was where they would throw slaves into the sea, something like that. That’s why it’s called Devil’s Bridge. After that we went to Moon Harbor to go to the beach. This beach had semi pink sand. Nothing special. I walked in the water, but didn’t swim cause I currently look dark dark/ sun burnt. I’m so dark! It’s not even pretty dark, it’s “my skin is peeling and I look like I have a disease” kind of dark. It hurts too and I’m red on my legs, yea, not fun. The beach was nice and I read my book. I’m tired now, but I’m excited and scared about going tree zip lining. That should be fun! I’m scared of heights though so we’ll see how it goes! Let’s hope I don’t fall about 50 feet down…
