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Little Kirsty Ventures to Pastures New
Vietnam- Ho Chi Minh City.
Vietnam baby!! Arrived safely in HCMC and its banter.
O.K, so last Wednesday I caught up with Aman when she arrived back from the 'nines', then headed to NBC to see Georgie and she helped me design some more funky stuff to get made on hol. Next day, we did a little shopping, chilled out and met up with Kirsty. Kirsty and I then rushed off to catch our flight and I stupidly managed to leave behind my towel, postcards and the friggin book of designs!! What a plonker! I was just too excited to get to the airport- I left loads behind!!
Flights went fine. The banter was flowing from word GO. Even sleeping over in KL airport wasn't too bad. Luckily I had a warm jumper with me and a pair of socks cause the air-con was icy. We wandered about the airport for a couple of hours, got a pie, then crashed out on some sofas for a sleep. I awoke freezing at 3am and tip toed off to Starbucks to get a yummy warm hot chocolate- was sooo good!! Our flight to HCMC set off at 8am so we arrived here pretty early. Kirsty swatted up on the LP and found the backpacker district for us. All of the taxis at the airport tried to rip us off, but we gota cheap price in the end. Once in the district of choice, we scowered all of the guest houses and cheap hotels and after much deliberation, we found ourselves in a guest house with a wee balcony over the bustling street below- and a sit on toilet-woo!! $8 a night for 3 of us, so pretty good. We got some grub then went for a nap cause the sweat was pouring off us. We were soon awoken by a crazy Sarah, who had obviously received my email giving her our where-abouts and had come to stay with us- banter! Had lots and lots to catch up on cause haven't seen her in a couple of months and she had just finished her 1 month placement in Cambodia, teaching little'ins. She can talk for Britain that one- but twas nice to not make the effort to talk for once and I was actually happy listening to her adventures.
The 3 of us then set out for dinner to a little local place for yummy noodles. Saw a dude sitting on his own so we invited him over and turned out he was a Gapper doing his placement in Vietnam. He was also doing TEFL but was teaching at a uni. After dinner, we headed to a cool bar called GO2, which had awesome music and cheap Vietnamese vodka. So twas pretty banterous, sitting round a coconut tree on bean bags-(directly in front of the main busy street).I ended up buying a necklace of flowers and all these kids were trying to sell us stuff like chewing gum and cigarettes. There was a dude that came round with these techno scales, that sang "My heart will go on" and if u stood on them, they would shout out your weight for the whole street to hear! Hilarious! Met another geezer that Sarah had previously met in Cambodia- bit up himself though. Headed for bed soon after. Next day grabbed some breakfast at a nice restaurant- a real baguette and real ham-ahh!!! Like actually bacon style ham! Crazy! There's a few major things that are different here- obviously the religion and culture- not seen one Muslim yet, which is a big change. There's quite a few cool dude monks walking about. And there's alcohol and ham readily available, which is a bit weird coming from Malaysia. The traffic- oh my! Got out the taxi for the first time in this district and I had to clench Kirsty's arm to cross the road. Was officially one of the scariest things I've ever done! Banter though! There's just thousands off mopeds and motorbikes everywhere and although there are pedestrian crossings, I don't think the drivers know what the lines mean!! So we learnt from a school girl we saw crossing the road. It's impossible to look for a space between the traffic, so you just gota go for it. So this girl just really slowly walked straight across and the bikes just dodged her. So we sussed out u gota just walk and they'll dodge you. Then there's the little ladies that carry a mahoosive stack of fake books like Lonely Planets and try to sell you them as you eat in the restaurants. Ah- I gota go just now, the others wana get the free garlic bread that's goin. xx
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