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| By the center where I volunteer |
I've had a great time working and playing with the kids these past few days. I even got to learn Vietnamese numbers with them in the process! Duc even has me giving the bus driver our ticket orders now like saying '6 tickets' or something like that.
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| Ling, awesome local volunteer from Vietnam |
Yesterday we had to say goodbye to the crazy cool ladies from Dubai -Cindy and Zeina, but we also got to say hello to a new group of volunteers from France who arrived yesterday! So now our group expanded to 3 French guys, 2 French girls, 1 guy from Japan and a girl from Indonesia. Another thing I learned from traveling is that even though if you travel alone- you're never actually by yourself. One of the things I love about traveling is that there's so many opportunities to meet people! During our night there we almost got scammed by two different taxis. Definitely make sure to watch the meter! Though they seem to be a pretty good sport about it when we were like Uh no we are only paying you that much. I was paranoid after though, thinking that they'll stalk us and run us over.. Duc, our Fearless Leader, suggested to only take the TaxiGroup, WC, or MyLinh taxis.
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| Celebrating the Dubai girls' last night! |
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| Celebrating her last night with the bar owner |
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| By Old Quarters |
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| Before Construction |
So today along with the new group, we went to a different center to work with a orphans and even lower-functioning disabled kids who have less chance of recovery. Most of them are autistic. The kids are so sweet and there as even a 28 year old guy there. This place is rural with its own plant farms which very different from the Phuc Tue which is in the citySome of us (mostly the guys) are working on construction for a vocational area for the older orphans to learn skills so they can get a job. After playing with the kids, I had to help them weed out their vegetable garden in the blistering sun. Its rehabilitative for the children to farm, and when I was pulling out weeds wearing my straw hat, I was jokign around telling the other volunteers I'm really good at this because I feel like it was passed down to me from my ancestors. But after doing it for like 2 hours, I was like ohkay I'm done.
After a long really hot day (Of course the one day where we are out doing physical work, it's not raining and it like 93 degrees out...), we ended the day with a Vietnamese lesson from Duc and Ling where I got to learn some pretty cool phrases. As I was speaking with the coordinators to practice, they said I sound like I'm from sourthern Vietnam. Freaky. I was like duh it's in my blood, my parents are from there!
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