HULLO! where are you from? Do you like Vietnamese food?

VIETNAM:
So this is Emily Cameron hanging out on the top of our boat in Halong Bay, Vietnam. It's a famous place in Vietnam, and beautiful. We spent the last 2 weeks in Vietnam running around, and our first weekend was horrible. We arrived around 9pm on Friday night, and were told that we were leaving at 5am to spend a weekend somewhere else...and looking at a Pagoda. So we did, and Saturday was super hot, and the pagoda was underwhelming, and we had a terrible first impression of Vietnam.
The people here constantly honk at each other, no one is patient, and they don't obey traffic laws or signals. Thus, crossing the street is ridiculously terrifying. That weekend was not pleasant, they kept giving us goat meat...so I lived on bread and fruit. But when we got to the university Monday, we were welcomed by like 20 girls (one guy) who had applied to be our friends basically :) They come to our Vietnamese classes when they can, and go on field trips with us. It was awesome.
But we had class all day everyday, and have to wake up early to get a taxi that takes 45 minutes to get to the university. By the second weekend, we were EXHAUSTED, and we went to Halong Bay.
Papa D got us our own boat for two days, and we sailed through Halong Bay.

We stopped in a cave that was huge! It was called SURPRISE cave.

Here is a group picture of us and the Vietnamese English majors :) We had a field trip to the Ethnology Museum.

We learned how to play an old children's game there. It's like jump rope, but with long poles. It was a lot of fun.
There were all sorts of life size houses that were different styles from different time periods in Vietnam.
Our last week in Vietnam is this week, and we leave for Cambodia on Saturday. The girls who signed up to work with us made Vietnam so much better. The experience here was a million times better, and more meaningful because we have spent to much time with them. Last night they took us out to supper and then we all sang karaoke. Hoa met me Saturday morning at our hotel and took me to send stuff to the states at the post office, and then Thanh got us Alice in Wonderland in 3D tickets, and helped us see a movie in Vietnam :) It's been so much fun and even though the weather sucks, and the country is kind of unfriendly, the girls have made it fun and worthwhile.