Em: The rest of our time in Can Tho continued as before - teaching, drinking coffe, eating seafood, cycling around (2 on a bike), riding motorbikes and meeting people. Lawrence played some football and I was taken for the best massage I've ever had. On our last night Ben, Evan, Lawrence and I went for dinner, got on the snake wine again and went clubbing. It was great! It was quite big with a massive soundsystem and open late. We were the only Westerners in th...

So, we're still enjoying Can Tho and we like the ordinary, slower pace of life here. Although maybe its only slow because we miss a lot of it by only getting up at 8-9am - for the last few days we have been woken up at 6am by a marching band! Perhaps it's a funeral or religious thing, we're not sure. But it's nice to listen to, and we can easily go back to sleep through all the hustle and bustle. While we've been here we have been busy but also relaxed. We have...

Just got back from church. We were invited to mass by a lady that runs a school that we will hopefully be teaching English at. It is actually just one room in her house but she has 400 students on her books. We were introduced to her by an existing teacher who invited us to join his class so we could introduce ourselves to the students and try to solicit some private lessons or maybe an invitation for English people for lunch/dinner or a coffee. The iced coffee (...

Now we are holed up in Hoi An on the central coast, while we wait for the torrential rain to stop. But I don't think it ever will, it has been raining HARD for the last 36 hours. At last we can do our chores - blogging, uploading photos and planning next steps. It may not sound like chores but it does become wearing at times. Anyway... We were right to be apprehensive about going on a tour. Within 10 minutes of getting on the minibus some very loud and hungover...

Now we are holed up in Hoi An on the central coast, while we wait for the torrential rain to stop. But I don't think it ever will, it has been raining HARD for the last 36 hours. At last we can do our chores - blogging, uploading photos and planning next steps. It may not sound like chores but it does become wearing at times. Anyway... We were right to be apprehensive about going on a tour. Within 10 minutes of getting on the minibus some very loud and hungover...