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Last days in Vietnam, Tokyo, and the Return

Reunification Palace They held humans in these "Tiger Cages" Conrad Hotel Tokyo Tokyo got me ready for the cold Back at home! Pritch was with me my last few days in Vietnam and we went out in the city and went to a lot of the historical sights I had yet to visit.  We started at the Reunification Palace and then went by Notre Dame.  We also visited the War Remnants museum during this time and that was my favorite as it was all about the war and history which I am very interested in.  The rest of the trip was a lot of walking around and showing Pritch the city and eating good food and drinking a lot including staying up all night to watch the Superbowl which while fun, I don't think I would do again. Then our trip moved to Tokyo which was amazing.  I thought Tokyo was really awesome and we had a whole lot of fun there.   Our hotel was amazing and we had heated toilet seats, a waterfall shower, and free breakfast and hap...
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Cu Chi Tunnels & Mekong Delta

Cu Chi Tunnel Hole Closed Trap Open Trap some delicious tea... lotsa bees authentic vietnamese music snakes, why'd it have to be snakes... crocodile and wild boar lunar new years in Vietnam On the monkey bridge Over the last few days I have taken 2 trips w/ my buddy Andrew to explore other parts of Vietnam.  My first trip was on Sunday and I went to the Cu Chi Tunnels.  The tunnels are very famous Vietnam War tunnels and the Vietnamese used them as undergroud passageways and cities during the war against as the propoganda video we saw called us "The American Invaders from Washington D.C."  First we saw the original holes they went in and they were less than a foot by foot square so we dont know how they fit in them.  We saw some other entrances and then saw some Vietnamese traps they used during the war along with some of their clothing and weapons from both sides of the war.  We then saw some of the typcal food t...

Vietnam End of Year Party

Open bar dude! Yeah I ate that Brando and I Brando's really not gay......promise Alway's with the tongue Man I hate karaoke! I am now down to my last week of teaching and with the Chinese New Year fast approaching my school center had a end of year party for all of us last night.  It was a lot of fun and soooo much food.  We had a 6 course meal with everything from pig to seafood rice to fish and everything else.  There was also an open bar which we took full advantage of, although there was a limit to how much I could do since I had to work this morning at 7 AM.  Me and the other foreign teachers got a bottle of Johnnie Walker as a gift which was awesome and it will be put to good use when Pritch comes to visit in a little over a week.  They also had Karaoke and managed to drag my, David, and Brando on stage to sing two songs which for me was hard, cuz I am not a good singer.  I have my last two days of teaching on Tuesday and T...

New Years in Vietnam!

Sprayed in the face! Lots of decorations in Saigon New Years in Vietnam had it all.  Booze, fireworks, a drug bust, a fight, dancing and everything else.  The night started with my friend Aaron and I going to an Indian place for dinner which was quite delicious.  We then went to our local bar to meet up with some other friends and while there we got sprayed in the face with Vietnams version of silly string, watched the cops arrest a guy for a drug deal, and watched two guys and their wives fight each other after a motorbike incident.  We then walked towards the main city center for midnight and got to see some fireworks in the distance.  After that we walked through the crowded city (the most crowded I have ever seen it) to a night club called the factory, where they had a DJ and a dance floor and spent the rest of the night there.  While not the same as home it was a lot of fun to experience New Years in Vietnam!