Good morning Vietnam.
If you remember there was a Challenge:Asia country where we pray about where we go.
Towards the end of Thailand we found out that we would be going to Vietnam.
We arrived in Vietnam last Friday and it has been nothing but wonderful.
We are staying in District 1 of the main city, Ho Chi Minh.
We are right in the middle of the whole city and this is where many of the tourists come to.
We have a lot of different activities we will be doing this month.
Teaching English, visiting kids, talking to the locals.
There is much more, but my words must be limited here.
This is still a country where many things are being monitored.
The other night a few of my teammates and I went to a restaurant around the corner from our hotel. We had Vietnam’s specialty plate…Phô.
We sit down to eat, order and just having a great time enjoying each other’s company. The whole time everything went great. Well we pay and get ready to leave. Alyssa my teammate gets up and walks around the table to give the other girl Vivian a hug. As she hugs her we hear this crash. It was a few seconds before impact.
We have no idea what just happened and debris and dust fill the room. We look up and see pieces of the ceiling fell from this 2-story restaurant and landed right behind our table. The workers were in shock and surprised at what happened. We felt the same way. So we ran out of that restaurant in case the whole ceiling fell. Luckily it didn’t.
It was a great welcome to Vietnam. An experience we can look back and laugh at.
Thank God we all didn’t get up and walk out a few seconds earlier, or else a few of us or all of us would have most likely been in the hospital from injuries.
It’s more dangerous to walk across the street than to sit in a restaurant. So we thought! I have been playing real life frogger ever since we got here, trying not to get hit by motorbikes, taxis, cars, buses and bicycles.
Here is to a month full of adventures!
