I haven't died from any horrible mosquito-bourne viral diseases or mortally wounded in a motorbike accident or anything like that (although I have had a few more accidents recently). Since I've moved in to my new house, I haven't had a good internet connection, until right now, which is why I haven't written anything in so long. But fear not, I have returned! I went out and bought a new motorbike 2 weeks ago, a Honda WIN. I felt like being more 'hardcore' and ge...

I found a maggot crawling around in my chom chom this morning. I have no idea how many chom choms I've eaten without even checking inside first. It's a scary thought. A chom chom is like a grape in a hairy shell with a big seed in the middle, like in a peach. It's some kind of Vietnamese fruit. When driving along the highway, if you look on the side of the road you can always see the shells from people eating them on buses and chucking them out the windows. One o...

I still have dust in my hair from the highway, sore legs from climbing to the top of Jesus and a dead ass from 8+ hours of motorbiking. But in all, Vung Tau was quite a pleasant suprise. It felt so good to get out of the city and out on the open road - until I hit a massive traffic jam. I had to drive though the dirt and over broken rocks to avoid it, a massive column of dirty trucks and buses that went on for about half an hour. Once I got off the national highw...

Dalat was a pleasant (if relatively uneventful) place. It reminded me a bit of Katoomba, near the Blue Mountains in Australia. A quiet and hilly town in the mountains with some nice old houses and windy streets. Actually, it wasn't really quiet at all due to the summer holidays, which meant that the town was full of Vietnamese tourists. The were out on the streets in force armed with cameras and riding tandem bicycles around the lake in the centre of the city. Th...

I know I haven't written anything for a while, but not much too noteworthy has been going on lately, just work and hanging out. Nothing too exciting.I'm well and truly into the 'routine' now. Although I'm working less since my private students seem to have disappeared, maybe my lack of any real teaching skills was the cause...Actually, a lot of close friends are 'disappearing' too. Back to their home countries, that is. At the end of the month, I will be the only...