Big hello from Vietnam!

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I left Canada last month to go spend a few months in Vietnam. Life is good here. People are nice, everything is inexpensive (for a foreigner!) and vietnamese women are wonderful! I learned the most important vietnamese sentences from ‘You are very pretty’ to ‘I have a big ****’, to use incrementally of course. So far, I went ‘fishing’ crabs and shrimps in the country side, and had all sort of crazy foods. I puked only once, two days ago, after eating some part of a crab I’ve never seen before.

I try to practice concertina and some whistle every day, and will visit an irish pub tonight, they have a ‘celtic’ band on mondays although I have my doubts about what ‘celtic’ means!

Here’s a picture I took in front of my appartment the other day, it rains quite heavily here these days although the rainy season is supposed to be over.

Beers are bout 50 cents here, and you can have a good meal for 2$, so I will need to focus on not getting too chubby because so far I seem to be an endless food pit!

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Thanks for posting the photo. I hope that you have a safe and interesting visit.

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“You are very pretty”
“I have a big ****”
and then he goes searching for crabs.

There’s no need to say any more. :smiley:

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This is just too funny! :smiley:

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do try not to catch something that you can’t get rid of

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:laughing: No danger, I’m being a good boy, or so I think! I guess food and moskitos will get me sick first!

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yer system will adapt a bit to the food

not so much the skeeters :smiley:

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Don’t ferget the worms neither. They could get a real hook into ya.

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Wow - cheap beer, cheap good food (I love Pho and Bun), tons of scooters…and you’re quite likely the best Irish trad musician in the entire country.

You are a king, man…go forth and enjoy yourself!

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And everyone recognizes you too.

Here are some directions in case you get lost.

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OK OK here’s the real reason I came here:

I was at my friend’s wedding, enjoying myself as you can see…

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Good reasons. How many times did you get your face slapped?

So are those attractive young ladies Bridesmaids or Waitresses? Excuse my ignorance, I don’t know any better. Is there any significance to the number of symbols on their dresses? Are they more senior with more (like in MacDonalds, or the Armed Forces) or is it just a matter of how many patches there were left in the box?

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The Hotel Wifi? Looks like a good place!

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I couldn’t believe they can’t spell wife! Jesh!
I’m curious about the differences in the dresses is it just coincidence or is there significance.

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I didn’t know about this aspect of McDonald’s…
Wait, did you mean McDonald’s restaurant, or
clan MacDonald?

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Well, the five women were the single women required for a traditional vetnamese wedding. They were from the bride’s side. Normally, five single men from the future husband’s side will represent him, but since I was the only guy he knew there, they had to choose four vietnamese men to complete the team! So I was the lucky white guy! I don’t know about the dress colors etc, I was being distracted by other details!

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Well, this was the yoke that I had in mind. Now I’ve looked at Azalin’s picture, I have to say if I was a young lady with any kind of upper-body presence, I would go with two good-fortune badges there rather than three.

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Hotel WIFI eh? That would be a wireless internet cafe then?