March 8, 2012

Today is International Women's Day!!! Yay women! It's like Valentines Day around this city with flowers and gifts for sale everywhere. If it's "International" then why haven't I ever heard of it? The restaurants are having specials for dinner including a gift or rose for the women. Ron got an e-mail one hour before his 1:30 class that it had been cancelled because of Women's Day. They are having a special celebration at the school. He was busy preparing for class when he got the notice. A little late. Now his syllabus is all screwed up as far as what topics he'll cover on which days. Half the time he goes to school and they've changed his room to a completely different floor without telling him. The students seem to know, but no one bothers to tell him! Another challenge here in Vietnam...

Tuesday I took a cab to the Ben Thanh Market all by myself. Now, that probably doesn't sound like a big deal, but it's a BIG DEAL! This place is hard to explain. It's a huge market place with row after row of booths selling jewelry, shirts, shoes, souvenirs, art work, fruit, vegetables, nuts, fish, eel, you name it. The owners of the booths come out and say "You wanna buy?" and "Hello Madame you need a shirt?"

I swear to you that there was an old women sitting right next to the fish section with a box of bras!

The main reason I went to the market was because I remembered when Carie and I went there a few weeks ago that there was a nail shop right across the street and I desperately needed a pedicure. The market is huge, and I got so lost trying to find it, but when I got there, they were very nice and I finally got my manicure/pedicure which cost me 160,000 dong. That's $8 US.

Tuesday night, which is Tuesday morning in Lubbock, I FaceTimed my friends at The Falls again.

FaceTime

It's always fun saying Hello. I just hope they don't forget about me....