My Humble Abode

My closet sized room is about to get a makeover. Just taping around the trim and ceiling took me ages... wish me luck as I begin to cut in!

Livin it up at the octopussy bar. Last night in hue!

So my classmates and I had been deeply disturbed by our tour guide Viet’s long hairs growing from his mole.  We couldn’t understand why it was so hard to pluck them.  But after I got over my disruption, I became simply confused.  There MUST be a reason why this hair was left to grow.

Today after the Imperial City of Hue, we ventured to a popular Buddhist temple by the Perfume River. We passed through a gate where there were two depictions of men; one represented good, and one represented evil.  But that wasn’t what was interesting. What was interesting was that one of the men had a mole which was sprouting some quite impressive hair.

It was then I knew, that the mole hair must be significant, at least within Asia.  After getting back to the hotel, to “refresh” as Viet keeps saying, I got on google. I found that : in Thailand and Vietnam, it is good luck to have hair growing out of a mole.  The longer the hair is, the more luck you have! This explains everything.

Well, kind of.  I can’t quite find out where the tradition came from, but rest assured, with a little more research I will be able to write another post hopefully detailing why this is so.

Oh, we went to the Imperial City too, which was cool.  The roof tiles were yellow, to signal royalty, and geomancers (Feng Shui experts) arranged all the walls around the city so it would be in an opportune position. It was extremely hot though, and Allison and I almost got left behind when we tried to go to the WC. 

well this blog is failing miserably

BECAUSE IM SO FUCKING TIRED!/ have to do our other blog for class where I write like 3 sentences of BS...

today we spent about 7 hours on a bus. SEVEN HOURS!! WHY!!! who cares what the 17th parallel looks like?!??!? I want to go back to Hoi An where there was a beach and a pool and I got a tunic tailor made for 18 dollars...

I'll give a quick overview of the Mekong Delta since I forgot..

We left at 5 and battled terrible traffic and speed bumps to get to the Delta.  Our driver almost killed several people.  When there we looked at a Pagoda which was very pretty and then I peed in a hole.

After this we wandered through a market which sold live snakes, then hopped on a boat to go eat lunch on an island in a bonsai garden.  I held a python.  I dont even know who i am anymore....

After that we looked at a brick kiln... SO EXCITING aka not really but hey, thats village life.

Then we went to a home stay which was like pretty legit camping; we got to cook and sweat to death and play BS.

Then we woke up at 430 to go look at coconuts or something, went back to HCMC, at lunch, then went to teh Cu Chi tunnels where the Viet Cong hid during the war.  They were pretty boring.  Steph climbed a ladder and then got yelled at.

SUPER EXCITING. pics to follow. that was such a scintillating blog post.

Yummy

noms in nam!

We landed in Da Nang and are now breakfasting.... there's wifi so cahill and khai are so technology