Saigon From my Eyes!

Hello all! It's Sunday night here in Vietnam and I have had quite the lazy day (all I did was nap and go to the pool... :)) I am happy to say I had a lovely first full week with the kiddos! It went by so fast and was a lot of fun! Then on Saturday we had professional development. I have to admit I wasn't too thrilled to be going to school on a weekend, but it was a great day! We learned a ton about the A to Z program and the daily five. We also talked more about our report cards being standard based without percents and letter grades. I learned a lot and I am feeling a lot better about planning. After our PD all the teachers went to a bar called Red Room. It was fun relaxing and hanging out with everyone, plus they had awesome food! Krystal and I shared a New Zealand steak sandwich with a fried egg and aoili sauce! :) After Red Room we did a bit of bar hopping and ended up at a place called the Cheeky Monkey who had a really fun live band.

That pretty much sums up my week! Nothing too exciting happened, I am finally starting to get into my routines and life is becoming normal again. Since I have been here I have been really, really horrible at taking pictures. In fact about 90% of the pictures I have taken have been out with friends and about none of the actual city. To say the least, my mom is not too happy at my lack of pictures. So I have taken a few videos. I promise I will take pictures soon, but for now you can see where I live and I see on a daily basis! Enjoy :)

 

This video is from last Saturday, we were having a few drinks in the backpackers area

 

Also from last Saturday. People are constantly trying to get you to buy things and a lot of times they have their kids try to sell you stuff. It's really sad, but this kid was great! He was so funny, Krystal and I caved and bought a couple of bracelets, but he couldn't get Michelle to get one!

These are the only videos for now as it is taking a super long time to upload them! But I have a couple of cab rides that I promise to share soon!

Until next time,

Michelle