Episode 2
Sorry for not posting few days ago which i promised. I was out these few days and was home late at night. So, i wasn’t able to post anything. Sorry.
Day 4 (12th march)
Woke up and had breakfast.. Blah blah blah.. Went to the construction site and continued where we stopped. Being in a video team, i excused myself from all the hard labour and went around video-ing the construction work and the teaching area.. It was pretty slack and although it was just video-ing, i had fun too! The power of technology attracts the small kids there. Wherever you go with a camera or video cam in hand, you can see the kids follow behind you. They wants to take pictures. Once you start taking a picture, you cannot stop. They will just pester you until you give in. Talking about kids, they are we rough bunch of kids. During their outdoor activities, you have no control of them. They will run around like crazy, whacking people’s ass. Oh, when they hit, they use full strength. The best part is that if one of them hit your ass, he/she will run and another will come. The guys there like to fight alot. The more they hit or get whack, the more happy they are. I really don’t know if i should call them sadist or call the singapore kids sissy. The kids there live a very simple life where here in singapore, the kids here are having a very enriching life. So basically, the life there is simple and slow paced. Oh, before i forgot, i remembered i helped them cut down a tree using a 2 man saw. Don’t really know what it calls but it’s a saw with 2 handles at the end. It was fun cutting down that tree. =) Well, that’s all for the day. It’s the same as the previous day, had lunch cooked by the students, than go back to work. Go back to have dinner, play games, debrief and sleep.
Day 5 (13th March)
It’s cooking day!!I forgot to mention in the start but we were split into 3 teams of people. Each team will cook for the rest of the team members and also to clean the dorms and the whole place for specific days. I was sent to the market and buy food back to cook. I remembered bring back tons of potatoes, fish, chicken and lots of other stuff. It was so damn heavy that it left a mark for quite some time before it goes off. Oh, we also bought 2 watermelon. Their food is like mutated lor. It’s super huge compared to here. Cooked lunch and took a little nap. It was rather slack compared to the worksite. After the nap, we had to prepare for dinner. Though i didn’t do much cooking, i helped out in peeling the potato and carrot skins. Learnt a new technique of peeling the skin using spoon or fork. I don’t know if the food is nice anot but all the food we cooked are cleared. Or maybe it’s too little for 34 people.. Oh, the market sells all sorts of things also. You can find clothes, cloth, nice shoes and other stuff there. Their seafood is really fresh. Still moving that kind.
Day 6 (14th March)
Went back to the construction site to see that it’s almost done. Although we are a hindrance to the workers there, we still managed to complete it real fast. What was left to do there was to plaster the walls and build the rest of the toilet. The funny thing is, the fence stops halfway through because we have run out of budget. Like wtf? What’s the point of calling it a fence when it doesn’t cover everything? But whatever it is, it’s finishing real soon. So, with so many manpower, i decided that short of one man is alright since so many people were already slacking. So, i went to the kindergarten to play with those kids. They seriously don’t get tired at all.. All of us were like dying of tiredness, while they are still running around, whacking each other. Even energizer battery will run out faster than those kids there.
That’s all for today. Please wait patiently for the next episode of “life in vietnam”
Like the previous post, there’s no video for i’m late. Need to meet someone. bye!
