tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49124214409886597382024-02-21T15:21:21.746+07:00Duc Linh DiariesMy experience teaching, learning, singing, dancing and playing in the village of Duc Linh, VietnamLaurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00464560979841709406noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912421440988659738.post-68835113765552094082014-07-26T22:43:00.001+07:002014-08-22T08:58:32.543+07:00Climb every mountain<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As I was walking to church for my last breakfast in Duc Linh the good ol' Saigon bus tried to get me to</div>
<a name='more'></a>come on - one more for the road! This time was the most aggressive. The bus came to a full stop and the man who hangs out the door to grab people came out onto the street with his arms stretched out, almost grabbing me to get me on and yelling at me in a persuasive tone (I imagine it was something like "come on! We've been trying to get you out of here for weeks! What are you doing here? It doesn't make sense! Let's go already!") I kept saying "no! no!" nodding vigorously, waving him away, making an "x" with my arms - they wouldn't go! I walked by and the bus crawled behind me before taking off (the guy in the door was laughing and had his hand in a peace sign). I was thinking <i>not for a few more hours! And I'm not going on your annoying harassing bus anyways!</i> One of my fellow volunteers and Vietnam native Van said to me this morning: "it's been four weeks and you are still here. You are tough. I am proud of you." I smiled and hugged her and told her "YOU are tough! You are much more tough than I am!" It's true. Those girls shared beds with no blankets, took cold showers with all kinds of bugs (lots of frogs and lizards made bathroom appearances), slept with no AC and many mosquitoes and didn't make a peep about any of it. In fact, they seemed perfectly carefree and joyful the entire time.<br />
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After breakfast we motorbiked about 20km to a mountain. The hike up took about two hours, and almost the entire way we were climbing stairs through an ascending alleyway of shops (we kept saying "how do they have a shop up here? What is going on!?") People were sleeping in hammocks, watching TV, trying to get us to buy things and just living life in their casual mountainside homes and shops. We were absolutely exhausted and sweating, panting as we put one foot in front of the other. I smiled to myself thinking <i>how perfect that on my last day here I am LITERALLY climbing a mountain after a month of climbing all sorts of metaphorical mountains</i> (hi Natalie!) A lot of this experience was different than I expected. Some things I didn't even think about or didn't think would be issues ended up being the biggest struggles (like the NOISY MOTEL, lack of alone time and sleep deprivation training) and others that I was terrified of before coming here weren't so scary after all (teaching, mosquitoes, playing with kids all the time and language barriers). There were times I cried in my mosquito net tent feeling exhausted, anxious, homesick and uncomfortable, and other times I walked around the church gazing at the abundance of yellow butterflies and dragonflies flying around me and waving to sweet little kids, feeling like I was exactly where I was supposed to be.</div>
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I'm currently sitting in the airport at Ho Chi Minh City, thinking back to my arrival here on June 25th. It was late at night and I was absolutely exhausted and terrified. My entire flight over I was thinking <i>what the hell! Why are we doing this? Can we go home now? Is this over yet?</i> <i>JFK! I miss you! </i>The first few days were incredibly disorienting and I was overcome with anxiety, fear and homesickness. Those feelings came and went throughout the trip, but once I met the kids (and slept a <i>little</i> bit) they were greatly subdued. It feels like it's been months since I boarded that plane at JFK. It seems like there is a vast space between then and now - mountains and mountains of space, time, energy and experience. Time to go to the gate!</div>
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Many temples along the way up the mountain</div>
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This guy spoke really good English! I made friends with him and he wanted me to take a photo</div>
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Some of my crazy students came on our hike</div>
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Van!</div>
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Dan!</div>
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That's me! I'm a lot higher up than it looks!</div>
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Today began with a celebration in my class. Several of my students brought me sweet gifts (Huy </div>
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After that I spent time with the younger kids. I went outside and found Bao 10 feet above the ground in a tree. They gave me sweet letters and bracelets - Chi put a bracelet on my wrist, then stuck out her wrist to show that she had a matching bracelet. I almost burst into tears. Her little note was signed "young sister of Laura." Han gave me a big hug and said "I love you! I want you live Vietnam forever!" I bought them sugar cane juice and snacks and then we spent some time biking around on the dirt roads and saw some beautiful scenery. Over the last month I haven't ventured out much onto the dirt roads and I'm so glad that on these last few days the kids decided to take me around a bit and show me their houses before I go home. I didn't bring my camera for that bike ride but there were some lovely views of fields and mountains. I will just have to keep those images as memories just for me, or maybe come back one day with a camera. We stopped at Chi's grandparents' house which is on one of the dirt roads. It is much more peaceful and quiet than the noisy highway-side motel I've been living in for the last month. Their house has one room with a farm in the back. Her grandmother smiled at me and told me, via Han, that since we couldn't understand what the other one was saying she was just going to sit quietly. I smiled, and I just loved that. It was like there was this communication and connection in those few minutes we were sitting together at the table, without any words. Yesterday I said that Chi has her mother's smile…well, Chi's mother has Chi's grandmother's smile. So wide and sweet.</div>
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Chi told me her parents' names and wanted to know my parents' names. She said "Laura name father?" and I said "Gino" - she smiled "Chi-no! Chi-no!" pointing to herself. "Yes, Chi-no!" I said, laughing, mentally noting to put that in the blog! We made our way back to the church so I could get my things. Everyone had gone home by then except for us. Chi, Han and Bao walked me into my classroom, and then it was time to say goodbye. As I was packing my camera Chi came over solemnly, tapped me and gave me a hug. I looked at her and we both teared up. We kept saying "ok, bye. Bye" as she waved and walked out of the room. I am tearing up again as I remember that sweet moment. I hugged Bao and said goodbye but I think he is too little to understand. Isn't it amazing that in one month I grew to love two little kids who don't speak my language? Leaving them hurts my heart (now I'm crying!) I gave Han a big hug and we said "see you later! See you one day! Talk on Facebook!" I am getting all kinds of messages on Facebook from the kids saying "I will never forget you! I will come visit you! Thank you!" At the end of every day I always wave to the kids as they bike away and say "see you later!" Today I did the same. "See you later" - see you sometime. See you on Facebook, see you when I reread my blog, see you in the weeks, months and years to come when I continue to learn and grow from this experience. And maybe, one day, I'll see you when I buy another round of sugar cane juice.</div>
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My favorite things! Mangosteen, rambutan and sticky rice bun (it's made of bean, rice, sugar and sesame)</div>
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Ly and the flower she made for me! And crazy boys</div>
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After class I went with the little girls to Chi and Bao's house. It is a rectangle of concrete with a straw roof (no walls); there is one small room made of bricks where they sleep. I met her parents who look so young, I think they are barely thirty. Her mother is beautiful and Chi has her exact smile. We sat down and they gave us iced tea and lychee while Chi's dad smoked a cigarette and her mom looked on smiling and laughing as Bao kept grabbing me and motioning for me to pick him up. Han was my little translator (she is a cute preteen who speaks English very well) and I told her "tell them I love their children!" Chi and Bao live right next to one of my students, Bo. We went to visit her and she gave me a very sweet card and keychain. Bo has Facebook (she friended my mom!), so I'll be able to send her messages to check on Chi, Bao and the rest of the kids once I'm home. I will really miss these sweet little kids! I wish they didn't live so far away. It's amazing to me that I had a special relationship with them even though we couldn't speak to each other in the same language. I will miss Bao running to see me and scooping him up while Chi looks on smiling.</div>
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After visiting with Chi's family we biked around on some of the dirt roads (I biked with Han on the back - it's hard! I don't know how she manages to bike with ME on the back!), Truc gave me a bracelet (she said "low-rah," pulled it out of her pocket and put it on my wrist) and I bought them all sugar cane juice. Tomorrow is my last day of teaching!</div>
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My little buddy! We met during my second week of teaching and he was instantly attached. I will miss carrying him around!</div>
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I tried to put him down and he jumped right back</div>
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Action shot of Nam by photographer Hung!</div>
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My student Bo and Chi&Bao's parents outside of their home - photography by Han!</div>
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There's Han! She was carrying my backpack for me</div>
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Inside the newly built school - it's so nice and has beautiful views</div>
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The kids cracked up when they saw this photo!<br />
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A little tour - walking to breakfast this morning</div>
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Here's a bonus video from the first week - we had a LOT of energy back then! Taken by Uyen :)</div>
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I began class this morning by writing my contact information on the board so my students can contact me after I leave on Saturday, should they ever have questions in the future or just want to say hi. It's going to be strange to say goodbye to them! This afternoon we waved goodbye to two of our volunteers who are now back in Saigon. In class today we learned about letter writing in the morning and careers in the afternoon. Two of the boys wrote letters to me and put them in hand-made envelopes - I'm not allowed to read them until I get home! I may have read them already….I couldn't resist! Another one of my students, Anh, is a 30-something woman who only started coming to class a few days ago. She arrived for class in the afternoon with a little box with a bow on top - a gift for me! She gave me two keychains and a bracelet and some mint condition Vietnamese money to take home as a souvenier. So sweet! I handed out the NYC pencils (purchased at JFK) that I had left and they loved them much more today than they did on the first day (next time give the gifts at the end!) In the afternoon we had fun learning about professions and I asked the six afternoon students about their dream jobs: singer, photographer, model, psychologist, magician (Nam! See his tricks on Instagram), kindergarten teacher, pilot and cook were among the dreamjobs. Afterwards I hung out with some of the little girls and they took me on a bike ride to visit the newly built school down the road. I had my last movie night with the kids - we watched "Wreck-It Ralph" (with Bao on my lap the whole time).</div>
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Nam and Hung with their letters to me!</div>
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Bye bye Thanh Thanh and Uyen!</div>
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Hung has proved himself to be quite a ham in recent weeks</div>
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Cousins and my students - Kiet and Nam</div>
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I just met this little one today and we were instant friends! She came to check out the new school with me and the girls and was jumping around being silly and cute (and I was saying "careful!" every two seconds as she climbed walls and walked barefoot on a construction site)</div>
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Just some ducks we passed by on our walk around the church. There were also tons of chickens and dogs roaming around.</div>
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Last night the kids had their annual camping trip organized through the church. It was POURING rain</div>
<a name='more'></a>all night, poor kids! They were organized into teams with biblical names and each team had their own tent. I think many of them slept at home or in the classrooms due to the rain. This morning they played some more games and had a closing ceremony including awards (I presented an award to someone! I had no idea what was going on, people just told me "ok, take that and give it to someone!") There was a lot of chicken dancing (there's a video!) and I saw many of my students and several of my little girls.<br />
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One of my favorites (oops, I'm not supposed to have favorites…), Truc (sounds kind like "juhp"), kept pointing to my camera and gesturing for me to let her take photos. I carefully put the strap around her neck and kept a close eye on her, showing her how to press the button to take a photo. She took a few photos of me (while I was taking photos of her, there's a cute picture on Instagram). I had a nice talk with one of the priests who asked me when I was going home and how long I had been in Vietnam. He came to my class a lot the second week (he was the one who climbed the wall to act out "monkey," if you recall that incident) and told me he had a lot of fun in my class and that it was "helpful! Yes helpful!" When I told him I have been here one month he asked me how I felt in Vietnam. I told him I had a very nice time there, but I missed my home. He understood and did a gesture with his hands, spreading them out far away from each other to say: "long time, far away." I nodded "yes, far and long."</div>
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At around 11am the kids all went home to recover. Tomorrow we will be back in classes! Three more days of teaching left for me. Time to plan my lessons. Below are some photos from this morning as well as some photos from last Friday and three funny videos of the boys doing their "The Voice" skit.</div>
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Little campers!</div>
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Me and Truc</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">On Saturday morning we left at 6am for Da Lat. We stopped at a waterfall on the way about 1.5 hours</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> from Duc Linh then continued the drive through the mountains (it was very bumpy! "Potholes" doesn't even begin to cover it…) We stopped at an "Amusement Park" called Prenn which was more like a garden with some opportunities to ride animals. There we climbed 600+ steps up a mountainside to get to a temple (our calves were on fire by the time we got back down!) We continued our drive and stopped at a beautiful temple where I sat inside for a few minutes listening to the Tibetan Singing Bowl and meditating in <span style="line-height: 22px;">Vajrasana pose (kneeling). On Sunday we visited a garden where there were many flowers and skinny horses roaming free. I enjoyed two different "Western" hotels during our two night stay, where I got steady hot water and a bed with sheets on the mattress - I was so grateful (it was a splurge at $30/night). On our way back to Duc Linh on Monday we stopped at the markets in Da Lat (I got a lot of gifts for family!) as well as the "Love Valley" which is a garden on a hillside overlooking mountains and a lake.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">Whenever I go anywhere in Vietnam I attract a lot of attention. Usually in Duc Linh it is harmless attention from kids and shopkeepers who just want to wave and say "hello," sometimes it is from adults (usually male) who are either laughing at me or saying impolite things in Vietnamese (I recognize those comments in any language), and whenever a truck or bus passes me on the street it honks and someone hangs out of the door motioning for me to get on (what are you doing here, white girl? We gotta get you back to Saigon!) When we were at the Love Valley this morning several people either took my photo while I wasn't looking or asked to take a photo with me. This happened when I went to Macau a few years ago, but it was less intrusive and I was traversing around with two cute blondes who were also being asked to pose for photos, so we thought it was funny (also, it was just one afternoon…this stuff has been happening for a month now!) Anyways, at one point I found a nice quiet bench to sit at overlooking the lake and was enjoying a brief moment of quiet and solitude, feeling the cool wind and looking out over the mountains, and I heard "hey lady!!" - I turned to my left and saw a couple grinning with cameras in hand, trying to get a closer-up photo of me. I turned my head away and pretended to not hear them until they left. Let me tell you something: it might seem like fun to be a celebrity, but there is something a little bit violating about the lack of personal space and privacy. Of course I know the Vietnamese are just curious because they aren't used to seeing people of my stature and ethnicity where they live</span><span style="line-height: 22px;">…but still.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"> In any event, over the last few weeks I have developed a new found appreciation for the anonymity of NYC. Many times I find myself feeling like a "nobody" in the city (although of course there are rude men and crazy people everywhere - on my birthday this year a man followed me up the subway stairs yelling at me to gain weight because I looked "sick" - happy bday to me</span></span><span style="line-height: 22px;">). Here in Vietnam I have felt like a celebrity. People stare at me as I walk down the street, the kids come and grab on to me as soon as I am within arm's length, and people constantly greet me and ask me how I am doing. I can't walk outside for long without hearing "LOW-RAH! LOW-RAAAH!" For the first few weeks this was cool and flattering…then it became a little bit exhausting. The next time I am feeling invisible I will read this very post and remember just how uncomfortable it can be to be SO VERY VISIBLE. Sometimes, you just want to walk outside without needing to respond to anyone or wave away honking buses.</span></span></div>
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The "Ranger" office at the waterfall (I say "ranger" because these guys were not doing anything to help preserve this place!)</div>
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Litter everywhere at the waterfall</div>
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Is that tree a garbage can!?</div>
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This man brought a live chicken to the waterfall to kill and cook on the spot. I was 100% ready to leave when I saw this!</div>
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Driving through the mountains to Da Lat</div>
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Mangosteen on the side of the road! Yum!</div>
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Prenn "Amusement Park"</div>
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Climbing the stairs…</div>
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Temple at the top</div>
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The second temple we visited on Saturday - I spent some time in there</div>
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Can you see the monks walking on the porch?</div>
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Da Lat is famous for being a city of Romance - a lot of cheesy photo opportunities for couples!</div>
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View from my hotel room on Sunday night</div>
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Monday morning in Da Lat - that guy sitting on a ledge is our driver!</div>
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Victor and Trang buying into the "Love Valley" thing ;)</div>
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Needed a jacket this weekend! It's much cooler up in the mountains</div>
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This was my quiet spot until the "hey lady!" incident</div>
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Farm</div>
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Victor made it to the moon</div>
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One of the kids, Hung, is really into Donald Duck and kept screaming "duck!" whenever I asked about cartoons/animation. Huy and I got into a brief duck sound competition - "quack" vs "cap cap." I said Donald Duck - "quack" and Huy yelled "no! cap cap cap!" Pretty funny. My TA Duc made it clear that his name is NOT Duck so of course I took that as an opportunity to write "Donald Duc" on the board and draw an arrow to his head. We had the students write movie scripts which was awesome. One of the groups performed their skit about a bank robbery in which one of the priests played a police officer - there's a partial video below. I was cracking up when Hung said "If you kill me I'll kill you" and Huy said "oh man!" in response. "Oh man" is Huy's favorite English phrase and he uses it in any and all situations. It makes me laugh every time. After that it was time for swimming lessons during which the boys kept saying "Low-rah! Picture!" and doing silly things like sitting on each other and throwing each other in the air for me to take action shots.</div>
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In the afternoon we watched <i>Harry Potter </i>on my laptop. It was so cute to watch the kids watch the movie - they were pointing and laughing at certain parts like when all the letters come flying through the chimney and I was saying things like "owl!" "snake!" "magic!" After a while several of the little kids came in to join us and were touching me and sitting on top of me (there always needs to be contact!) Huy was asking me what the characters' names were and how to spell them ("his name Ron? R-O-N?") and pointing to things like Harry's broom saying "broom? B-R-O-O-M?" There were several rain showers throughout the afternoon and at some points it got so loud on the tin roof that we couldn't hear the movie at all! </div>
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Just attempted to take a shower and the water went off after a few minutes. This happens frequently! I managed to get my hair washed but part two will have to happen later tonight (hopefully). Be grateful for your showers!</div>
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There he is, Donald Duc</div>
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Nam preparing for the skit</div>
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"Robbers" Huy and Nam</div>
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Nam!</div>
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A bunch of my boys! Nam, Hung, Vic and Huy</div>
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Huy!</div>
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Working on their dives (they were a little less belly flop-like than yesterday!)</div>
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Watching the big boys swim!</div>
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Watching <i>Harry Potter</i></div>
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The raps went pretty well once we got the kids up (it took a lot of work!). One of the groups rapped about me and I was cracking up! Take a look at the videos below. After the rap performances we learned and sang "Just the Way You Are" which was awesome. We talked about the meaning of the song: "you're perfect! Don't change! I love you the way you are!" I was belting and walking around the room dancing and jumping on tables. I got all of the kids up and <i>sort of </i>dancing. I was using my fist as a microphone, singing to it and then putting it in front of their faces encouraging them to sing louder. At one point I said "OK! ALL OF YOU TOGETHER SHOULD BE LOUDER THAN JUST ME! OK? GO!" When I teach the introvert in me takes a back seat and somehow I pour out all kinds of energy and do silly things. I put out so much energy over the course of the day that by the time evening rolls around, all I want to do is sit in my mosquito net tent, read my book, write my blog and be quiet. At 10 I took the kids over for swimming lessons and almost all of them went in - I think they were more comfortable after working with the guys yesterday. I walked around the perimeter of the pool snapping photos, cheering them on and helping the Australians explain things.</div>
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In the afternoon we learned "places" vocabulary - "library" "post office" "grocery store" - and I taught them some idioms like "middle of nowhere" "heart in the right place" and "go the extra mile." We sang "Just the Way You Are" a few more times (I got Nam to come to the front and dance with me and Duc) then the kids went outside to play and hang out. My normal little kid crew came by and swept the floor for yoga and ballet class. I brought my yoga mat which was a bit of a failure because all the kids wanted to touch it, fold it and step on it (Bao was doing all kinds of poses on the front end of my mat the entire time I was doing yoga…it lasted maybe 10 minutes). I kind of thought that would happen but figured I would try it out and see. We did a little bit of ballet barre (using the desks as barres) and the girls retained some words - now when I say "point" they know what to do with their foot. Pretty cool! For some reason I've always had an aversion to teaching dance, but I actually think I could have a lot of fun doing it. I enjoy it here and I can't even speak the same language as my students…imagine if I could use words to explain in addition to silly movements and gestures. Little Bao was literally hanging on me (I took my hands away and he stayed perfectly on my hip with his legs wrapped around my waist and his arms choking me). After a bit the girls left to go practice a kung fu/dance number they are going to be performing on Monday when we have a big camping trip (there's a short video on Instagram). </div>
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We are officially in the second half of classes! I am dying for a gluten free burger and beer - soon!</div>
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The girls rapping…or more like discussing and throwing out a line here and there</div>
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Cleaning up the classroom & Downward Facing <strike>Dog</strike> Bao</div>
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Rehearsing for their performance on Monday - it was a blend of kung fu and traditional dance</div>
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Take one - look at Tai's (aqua shirt) dance moves!</div>
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And here is the best rap of the class ;)</div>
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This morning we learned about music. I started by writing "music genres" on the board and asking my<br />
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After that it was time for swimming lessons - this time it was a success! The kids were super excited when I got dressed to go in with them and I managed to get 15 of them in the pool including several of the girls! Yay! The kids were splashing me and I was smacking them with noodles and screaming their names in the pool (yesterday I spent some time learning a bunch of names, so I was having fun today calling them out by their names - "NAAAAAAM!!! YOUR BUTT IS SINKING! GET YOUR BUTT UP!!!"). It was so funny to watch the boys swim - a lot of them have zero body fat so floating is really difficult. It reminds me of myself when I was a little kid - I had a really hard time staying afloat! Little Chi and Bao followed me to the pool and ended up jumping in and hanging out with us while my students learned from our Australian friends Dan and Jim. The kids learned some new words like "float" "side" "kickboard" and "noodle" (Dan would say the word in his Australian accent, then he would call me over to teach the word to the kids in an American accent, which is what they are used to).<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">During our break there was a downpour - loud thunder and a lot of rain. I donned my Vietnam rain gear - pants to ward off mosquitoes, rain boots and an umbrella - and headed back over to the church. Two little boys I haven't seen before jumped under my umbrella with me and we walked quietly down the street to class. Only four kids came to class (they showed up casually over a 20 minute period) so my lesson plan was foiled (classic Vietnam, always foiling my nice plans!). So we just hung out, they showed me magic tricks (I taught them the words "magic" and "magician"), I showed them videos of themselves on my phone that I've taken over the last few weeks, and we listened to music. Then the little kids came in! We moved the desks and benches aside, I forced Nam to sweep the floor (he was doing a terrible job so Duc took over) and we did some yoga. Some of the kids from my class followed along for a while but they eventually lost interest/gave up/couldn't stop giggling because they are teenage boys.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;"> After we did yoga for a bit the girls wanted to do ballet ("</span>bah-leh!"), so ballet we did. This time I did more of a class. I was saying the words "plie" "turn out" "stretch" "point" "flex" etc when we did each position, hoping they would retain some new words. I walked around correcting their arm positions, demonstrating the WRONG way (sticking my butt out "no!!" keeping everything in alignment "yes!"). I walked around adjusting their little feet (I touched a lot of dirty bare feet today), holding their torsos and legs as they stood in arabesque, and I even stretched some of them against the wall the way my teachers did when I was little (the kid stands against the wall, they give you one of their legs, and you bring it up as high as it can go. Some of them could touch the wall behind them! I was very gentle with them). We had a lot of onlookers and admirers. Some of them have so much potential, it's ridiculous. If they were in ballet classes for as long as I've been, they would probably end up being better dancers than I am by the time they were my age.<br />
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We got VERY tired and sweaty. Bao was running around the room throughout our ballet class and I was scooping him up and putting him upside down every now and then to get him out of the way. Some other kids came in and somehow we ended up singing. I was sitting on a desk against the wall and they were all sitting around me. I would sing a scale: "ah-ah-ah-ah-ah" and they copied me. Eventually the singing turned into animal sounds: "meow meow meow meow meow" I don't know how that happened! I was singing a vowel like "eee" or "ooo" and all of a sudden I heard cats coming back at me. The kids tried to teach me some Vietnamese words (completely over my head) and they all giggled. One of the preteen girls said "you speak Vietnam funny!" Yes, I'm sure I do…I couldn't tell you!! I taught them the scale "do re mi fa so la ti do" after they prompted me ("doe! doooeee!!") and started singing "doe, a deer…" Hey theatre people, did I tell you I booked the role of Maria in a Vietnamese production of <i>The Sound of Music</i>? Well, I did. I'm getting my equity card and everything.<br />
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What a day! I've already taken two showers. Tonight we are watching "Brave" with the kids. Tomorrow - rap concert! There are some cute videos up on Instagram from today.<br />
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The rap about me - I was cracking up! My TA Duc said "I'm a jellyfish!" (that means "I'm jealous!" We say that here - "you're so jelly you're a jellyfish!")<br />
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Strike a pose! This cutie walked by my class in the afternoon<br />
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Bao! Get away from my phone!<br />
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Look at that face! Yes Chi, ballet hurts!<br />
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I showed them this stretch against the wall - I used to do this every day for years when I was younger!<br />
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Helping each other stretch<br />
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No hip bones whatsoever<br />
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The afternoon was a much more productive lesson. We continued learning vocabulary, worked on a dialogue about the environment, and did a writing assignment (would you prefer to live in the city or country?). We talked about pollution and endangered species and what we can do to help. We learned the phrase "environmentally friendly" and I taught the kids about litter and recycling (pretty foreign concepts here). I encouraged them to try recycling, to refrain from littering and to try to pick up the trash they see on the ground (there is litter everywhere). We talked about how smoke pollutes the air (they burn waste here frequently and there's a ton of smog from motorbikes, trucks, buses and tractors). I explained to them how in America you are fined for littering, recycling is strongly encouraged, and we have developed things like hybrid cars to try to help with air pollution. </div>
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After class I went out to play and found my little girl gang and Bao around the corner making flower bracelets. They put some in my hair and Chi grabbed my camera to take a picture of me. We walked around the grounds and Bao was being a HUGE ham. The girls pointed out flowers to take photos of and Bao would grab the flower and pose with it or the girls would put the flowers on him in a funny way - it reminded me of how my sister Ali and I used to dress up our little brother Nicholas, forcing him into silly situations for our own entertainment. Bao had about 6 big sisters today playing around with him! I loved that we were exploring the environment on the day I taught my class about the environment. We went back to my classroom and did some yoga (I did poses and they followed along) and Bao literally climbed all over me as I was doing it (like <a href="http://www.tastefullyoffensive.com/2014/07/pets-interrupting-yoga-compilation.html">this</a>). He really tested my balance! After that we did a little bit of ballet - their splits are getting good! And some of them can turn a bit now! So cool. I've been seeing kids with natural talent here - drawing, gymnastics, flexibility, artistry - and can't help but think <i>man, if this kid was in America, they would be doing dance competitions, or in gymnastic practice every night, or making their own jewelry, or going to art school. </i>It's a great blessing to be able to develop your natural talents, but it's also awesome to see how the kids develop them on their own here - flipping around in the mud, making bracelets out of flowers, drawing in chalk on the board, and whipping out perfect splits.</div>
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This is the face she made when she realized I was taking photos of her and not the flower she was showing me!</div>
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On Saturday I was thrilled to hear of a laundry machine in the church (washing a few articles in a bucket in the bathroom was not only taking awhile but was producing questionably clean clothing). There was a slight power outage blip but I managed to get it done. While I was hanging my clothing to dry outside a group of about 15 teenagers came through (it looked like they were touring the church) and they all stopped and stared at me for a solid couple of minutes as I hung up my clothing. I was like "HELLO EVERYONE!" and thinking to myself <i>watch me as I hang my underwear!</i> Oh brother. I managed to find a somewhat secluded place to practice yoga and meditate for a bit. The boys played in a basketball tournament at the church which was interesting indeed! People were just pulling up on their motorbikes or bicycles to watch. I don't know anything about basketball, but I know there were definitely some rules broken in this game and it wasn't entirely fair! But we were good sports. We had the other team over for dinner (there were like 40 people!) so it took us quite a while to set all the tables. There are some photos up on Instagram (some really cute ones of the kids at the game).</div>
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On Sunday afternoon we went to visit an ethnic minority community close by. We played with the little kids and gave them candy (and I took a ton of photos). I was having a sad day and they definitely lifted my spirits. I loved hanging out with the little girls, brushing their hair with my hand, hugging them and showing them my camera. It started to downpour while we were there but that didn't stop a lot of the kids! They played around barefoot in the mud as giant puddles turned into small ponds. Pretty soon they were entirely soaked through, but they kept going! They were doing cartwheels, rolling around, walking on their hands, doing flips - little gymnasts and breakdancers in the making! We waited for the rain to stop but it never did, so we had a wet motorbike ride home before dinner. I didn't mind. It felt nice to ride past the rice paddies in the rain with cute little kids yelling "GOOD-BYE!" as we drove away.</div>
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Time to get ready for week three of classes!</div>
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Huy came along with us! He was being silly</div>
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LauraLaurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00464560979841709406noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912421440988659738.post-13221343121730113742014-07-12T10:55:00.000+07:002014-07-21T23:30:35.431+07:00Crazy, cool, go!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Only a few students returned in the afternoon and most of them wanted to go swimming, so we studied for an hour and then I let them go. We learned "for fun" words like "to swim, to read, to play, to dance" etc. I went to sit by the pool and some of the little girls were tickling me with feathers - sticking them in my ears, putting them in my hair, on my face, in my armpits - just everywhere! Most of the time I don't mind having the kids hanging on me and constantly touching me - I think it's cute. But sometimes I think to myself "Ok! Personal bubble! The insides of my ears are off limits!" My TA Le had to leave the program Friday afternoon to go back to Ho Chi Minh City for school (she only found out on Thursday) so that will be an adjustment. I'm bummed because Le is awesome and we got along so well and were really starting to get into a rhythm with our class, but that's ok. Another lesson of this trip: you can figure it out! Anything goes! </div>
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In the evening we took motorbikes to a nearby town to do Karaoke. It was an interesting experience! We did a few English songs but most of them were in Vietnamese - it was cool to follow along as they were singing, trying to hear how the words are pronounced. It's so, so different from English; I'm amazed at the people here who can speak both languages. When I was in Italy it was so much easier to pick up some Italian - I think partially my ear was used to it from hearing my family speak it, but also the way of producing sound is the same as in English. Same goes for Spanish - granted, studying both of those languages definitely helped. When my superstar Puerto Rican friend Michelle says a phrase to me in Spanish, I can repeat it back to her, accent and everything. Vietnamese seems to require an entirely different set of muscles. Someone will try to teach me a word, I will repeat it back, then they will say it again, then I will try again - to me, I have no idea what the difference is in how I am saying it, but eventually they say "yea, good!" and 30 seconds later I completely forget what the heck I was saying. Looking forward to a much needed weekend of rest after weeks of traveling, teaching and not sleeping that much! Two weeks of classes down!</div>
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My student Huy! There are a lot of hats and clothing with funny English phrases on them. This one says "good girl" under the bill. A lot of hats say "BOY" or "GIRL" on the top and ironically usually a girl is wearing the "BOY" hat and a boy is wearing the "GIRL" hat. I also saw an older male food vendor wearing a "PINK" (as in Victoria's Secret) baseball hat</div>
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Trang rocking out with her class!</div>
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My class!</div>
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The girls dancing</div>
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My little gals brought me flowers! These ended up in my hair (they stuck them in my sweaty bird's nest bun, Huy took a photo and put it on Facebook, I look crazy) and now are sitting in a cup of water in my room</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We spent some time working on a dialogue about going to the zoo. I walked around the room listening to them speak with each other and explaining words like "incredible" "warn" and "exploiting" in simple words. We went out to the basketball courts to rehearse for the talent show tomorrow and some of the little kids were there playing - they were </span>imitating<span style="font-family: inherit;"> the big kids while we practiced our number. After, the students started singing a Vietnamese folk song and doing a funny dance. They ended up making up an entire second dance together by themselves (I sat there watching and laughing) that they will do tomorrow in addition to "You Raise Me Up." They were teaching me some of the words and moves and laughing when I did them. It was awesome to watch them work together - they choreographed formation changes and everything! One of the kids took my place as rehearsal master, standing in front making sure everyone was doing the right moves. Check out the video below of them rehearsing! Later in the afternoon </span>Huy<span style="font-family: inherit;"> attempted to teach me the song - that was rough! A lot of giggles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the afternoon we wrote about our favorite animals. It was a bit frustrating. My students were being wild, they weren't doing their work, and the little kids were running in and out making a ton of noise so when I finally managed to get someone to the front of the room to read aloud I couldn't hear them! After an hour and a half I sent the kids out for swimming lessons and to get their hair cut by Le. The little girls and </span>Bao<span style="font-family: inherit;"> came in and brought me little presents - they made bracelets out of flowers and twigs and were putting them around the bun in my hair and on my wrist. Chi and </span>Bao<span style="font-family: inherit;"> made me a special little kite that says "Happy Birthday" with our names in hearts - they wrapped it up in a little box made of paper. So cute! The girls drew on my board - they would draw something, point to it and say "Low-rah" for me to tell them the word in English. They are so good at drawing! Chi is so smart. She has been opening up and saying phrases, pointing to things and saying "bike! motorbike! teeth! smile!" Some of my students and Map came to hang out with us outside. Map said "my name is Nghia…no, my name Map!" My students were asking me about what I do, and I told them "dancer, singer, actress, model, photographer" and </span>Huy<span style="font-family: inherit;"> said "oh man! You are going to be millionaire!" I was cracking up! First of all, </span>yay<span style="font-family: inherit;"> for using vocabulary we learned last week! And second of all, I wish!! The kids were working on saying my last name - there's a cute video below of Map saying it while Le and I were out for juice and snacks with him. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lots of photos today! I have little plant wreaths hanging on the wall and a paper kite tucked away in my notebook of lesson plans. Excited for the talent show tomorrow! On another note, thrilled to be mentioned in the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/10/fashion/glamour-photos-replace-selfies-for-personal-branding.html?ref=fashion&_r=1">New York Times</a> today. So many gifts!</span></div>
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The kids dancing along with the big kids! So funny</div>
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Le the hairdresser! One of my students with my flower wreath on his head…so sad</div>
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They put the wreath around my bun</div>
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My gift from Chi and Bao!</div>
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Look at Chi copying Hello Kitty onto the board</div>
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This morning we learned about slang and it was hilarious. I taught phrases like "what's up?" "hot" <br />
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My little buddy Bao (from yesterday) came in to hang out - he stands right by my leg, a little bit behind me, almost like he is hiding behind my leg, or he runs right up to me and just stands in front of me against my legs like he is guarding me. We have a talent show on Friday so we had to rehearse! Bao followed us to the front of the church - our makeshift rehearsal studio to learn our dance to "You Raise Me Up." I tried to get the boys and girls to pair off - I raised little Bao up over my head (like Simba in "The Lion King") and said "you raise me UP! Boys be strong! Do some pushups! I want you to do this!" The couple thing was a complete fail. You can see a video on Instagram of them fooling around giggling and yelling. So we separated boys and girls and I made up an easy to follow dance - totally made it up on the spot, formation changes and everything. Le said to me earlier "Laura, do you have something prepared to teach?" and I said "Nope! We'll figure it out together!" and we did! The kids were really adamant about doing ballet so I taught them a few easy things like walking, a slow turn, and some swaying. It was a little difficult but somehow I managed to get non-dancers AND non-English speakers to follow along and remember a routine. There was a lot of laughter and they were good listeners (for the most part. I said "SHUT UP!!!" a few times - playfully, of course - and used some of our newly learned slang terms like "cut it out" and "knock it off"). I taught them the phrase "from the top!" which means "from the beginning!" in showbusiness. So I would teach them a little, we would review, then I would say "ok! From the top!" "Ok! Beginning!" I was sweaty and exhausted after singing, yelling, directing and dancing in the hot sun - at one point it started raining on me and I was like "oh thank God!" I said "I'm pooped! I'm beat! What does that mean!?" "You are tired!" "That's right!" After we finished learning our routine we went back to class to review a reading from the day before and Le bought me a sugar cane juice before lunch (thank you Le!)<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">In the afternoon we did a writing assignment - do you think slang should be taught to children? The conclusion was that if used in appropriate situations slang is good, but if it's used impolitely then it's bad. Everyone read aloud. My little girl gang and Bao (I learned today that Bao is Chi's little brother - she is 11 and he is 5) came by after I dismissed my class and took me around the grounds pointing out flowers to take photos of. There was a huge storm during lunch so there were a lot of bugs out - I got attacked by some ants and mosquitoes. One of my girls slapped my leg to kill a mosquito just as it was biting me! They gave me some flowers to put in my hair and we sat in my classroom to draw and play around. I would label each of their drawings: "flower" "tree" "house" so they learned a little while playing. They drew some pictures of me! They were jumping from desk to desk - little Bao would jump from desk to desk and if I was nearby he would jump right onto me! Luckily he is a very tiny, light five year old, so I was swinging him around and he was giggling and resting his head on my shoulder. So cute! I taught the girls a little bit of ballet (they are so good!) after Chi said "Laura, can you teach me ballet?" I love when she says English phrases perfectly! It's so awesome!</span></div>
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I just bought a six pack of toilet paper rolls for 15,000 dong (70 cents) and a bag of popcorn for 5,000 (23 cents). The Vietnamese girls are so awesome and helpful and go to the store with me when I need help. I walked into their room with an empty roll of toilet paper and said "ok, how much should this cost?" and Lam said "I'll go with you." My plan was to show up with the roll, point to it and hope for the best. One day during the first week here I went to buy some water bottles (by myself) and I just held out my wad of money for the shop keeper to take the appropriate amount from - the girls did the math and determined I was NOT ripped off, luckily!<br />
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Lessons today include: it's ok to not always have an exact plan (you'll figure it out!), you don't need language to teach, priests can be very sassy, it's ok to ask for help, and always reapply bug spray after it rains!<br />
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My buddy Bao!<br />
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Bao hanging out in my doorway<br />
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There's Chi! <br />
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Bao and Chi may be the cutest brother sister duo…ever<br />
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The girls pointing out plants for me to take photos of<br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">the students were volunteering to read aloud, so I did "eenie meenie mynie moe" and they were fascinated by the "song" so I taught it to them (interesting spelling!). Some the students read aloud; their secrets to happiness included "remembering happy memories and forgetting sad ones," "being selfless," "studying hard to earn a scholarship" and "forgiveness." I loved hearing their thoughts, I thought they were beautiful! After that we started learning about money. We began with vocabulary accompanied by a lot of demonstrations with my wallet - I showed them coins, dollars, receipts, cards and demonstrated paying, charging, withdrawing etc. Some of my students are getting a little rowdy (two of the priests from the church are among the worst offenders!) so I have been bumping up my sass level to get them to simmer down. Today the two priests were sitting next to each other acting like little boys poking each other and joking and I said "how old are you! 10? Separation!" and drew a line in chalk on the desk in between them. Everyone laughed. During one of our breaks an old lady wandered in and started smiling at me and speaking to me in Vietnamese. Le came to translate - she was saying "Beautiful! Beautiful!" while holding my hand smiling at me. I said "cam on!" ("Thank you," one of three Vietnameae phrases I can say in addition to "skinny" and "let's eat!"). She asked about my religion and I just showed her my rosary bracelet - instant love! She was probably either coming from or going to mass at the church.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We had a love vs. money debate - which is more important, love or money? I was bummed when more than half of the class chose the money team! They had nice ideas like "In the beginning, God made love," "love can change everything," "money helps you relax outside, but LOVE makes you relax INSIDE," and "with money you can buy everything, go travelling, give to charity." I loved that my money advocates wanted to give to the poor, the old, and orphans - I asked them "isn't that love? When you give your money to help another person, are you loving them?" One of my love advocates said "love can make people better. You wil be happier and you won't be afraid of someone robbing you of your money!" There was a lot of laughter and spirited discussion. I asked questions like "if you have NO love, only money, you are all alone and nobody loves you and you don't love anyone - are you happy?" That stumped a lot of them. Then I asked the love people "ok, so a child needs its mother's love to survive" (that was one of their arguments) "but what about food? If you have NO money and can't get any food, then what?" We came to the conclusion that we are all very lucky to have both love and money. First comes love, then comes money, and both of them are helpful in leading a happy life. So, both sides won! Although I do think love is the most important thing ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After our debate we spent some time learning "You Raise Me Up" - the song the students want to sing and dance to for the talent show on Friday. There is a great intrumental break where I was demonstrating some silly ballet moves, pointing to the boys and saying "you're all going to do this!!" <span style="text-align: start;">In the afternoon we reviewed "You Raise Me Up" lyrics, pronunciation and meaning. I got them to stand up and sing without me - one of the priests was really into it and the kids were giggling at him, I was saying "yeah! Superstar!" My plan was to focus on learning our talent show routine but there was a storm and a lot less students showed up (a solid 12 or so still came - dedication!). So, yet again I had to go with the flow and improvise with help from Le. We worked on a reading then some students went to the pool for swimming lessons - there are two</span><span style="text-align: start;"> Australians in town teaching kids and adults of the community how to swim. A lot of people in Vietnam don't know how to swim, so drowning is a big problem here. At home, I think we take for granted that most of us had the good fortune of learning how to swim at a young age - several of the volunteers here never learned. Another thing to be grateful for! It was a quiet afternoon with the rain, I walked around a bit and some little girls came to hang out with Le and I in our classroom and we listened to "Part of Your World." Le and I sat in some pews outside the church with a few little girls (Chi!) and a little boy Bao (his photo is above). Le explained to me a little bit about the Vietnamese language (there are a lot of markings that look strange to us - they indicate how to inflect your voice when saying a word). One of the girls asked how to spell my name and wrote it on her hand. They asked me some questions like "what do you like?" a</span><span style="text-align: start;">nd we practiced speaking English.</span></span><br />
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These little gals were walking by my class while we were on a break. Their caretaker pushed them over towards the camera and after I took some photos I showed them the pictures of themselves. The kids love that!<br />
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There church has a water filtration system. People from the community come by to refill their water jugs - they tie them on the back of their bike or motorbike and ride home to their family with drinkable water.<br />
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Some of the little girls drawing in my classroom this afternoon<br />
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Today we learned about emotions. I had 22 students in class this morning. We began with vocabulary </div>
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There was a downpour at around 1:30pm, so there were a lot less kids on the grounds in the afternoon - I had about 12 students. We spent some time learning "Crazy" by Britney Spears. It was pretty interesting explaining her lyrics ("What is she feeling?" "Lovestruck" "That's right, she's lovestruck. She can't sleep at night!"). The song didn't go very well. The lyrics printed out for the kids didn't exactly match up with the lyrics in the song (Britney does a lot of random nasally free styling in the second half of the song) so we were all a bit confused. Later one of the kids said "I don't like that song. I'm sorry!" and his girlfriend said "I don't like it because I can't sing it!" That's fair! So, that was a little fail today. When that didn't work out we reviewed some things we learned in the morning and played a game of pictionary with the emotions, which was pretty funny - "Team Boys" (very creative) vs. "Team Ladies First." I dismissed them at around 3:30 with the intention of going outside with the kids but it was drizzling outside and was much quieter than usual (no dance parties today!). We ended up hanging out for a little bit in the classroom, talking a little and listening to music. I played them the song "I Love It" and danced around. Huy pulled up a video of Taylor Swift dancing like a maniac and pointed to me "yup, that's just like me!"</div>
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Some of my little girls came to hang out in my class, watched me write, helped me pack things away, and followed me around the grounds, pointing out flowers to take pictures of: "Low-rah!!" (pointing to a flower). One of the little girls asked me how old I was, I told her and asked her how old she was, and she said "I am 11" "Good girl!!!!" It was the first English she spoke to me! She later wrote on my board "My name is Chi. I am Chi." You can see her photo above - what a beautiful little girl. Enjoy our floral photos!</div>
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They were being camera difficult! They follow me around pointing at the camera, then when I pull it out they run behind me. It makes for a difficult photo shoot!</div>
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When the younger kids are hanging outside of my classroom making noise while I'm trying to teach, I take out my camera and go stand in the doorway - they run away 95% of the time!</div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"> Here come the flower photos, all picked out by the little gals</span></div>
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Cute little girls</div>
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This is Chi! She's being camera difficult</div>
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On Saturday morning we left for the beach a little after 6am. It took about four hours to get to Mui Ne,</div>
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We spent the afternoon at a beach front restaurant/club - we were the only ones there. There was a woman walking on the beach who was selling seafood - she brought fresh clams and shrimp, just off the boat, and cooked them right in front of us on her portable stove. They were delicious. We went swimming in the South China Sea and I went to get a massage (it was $11.50 for an hour!). We had some Indian food for dinner then stopped at a few of the beachfront clubs. On Sunday we went out to breakfast by the beach (it took about 2 hours! We were the only ones at the restaurant and they had to go to the store a few times to get ingredients), walked around a bit then stopped at Tram's family's house for dinner on the way back to Duc Linh (Tram is one of our Vietnamese teachers). Our trip to Tram's involved a little detour including a local bus ride (the bus crawled with doors wide open picking people up along the road) and peeing in a hole...full cultural immersion! We came up with Vietnamese nicknames on the bus - mine is "om," "skinny." Glad to have seen a new place and glad to be back in class!</div>
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Coconuts!</div>
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We hung out here for a while on Saturday afternoon - Pogo's</div>
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Sandy toes</div>
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A squid!</div>
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Our fearless leaders Trang and Victor (nice short shorts…)</div>
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">students! The boys (and men, the
brothers from church were there again!) sat on one side of the room and the
girls on the other. They told me that some of them are reading my blog (hi
guys! You are AWESOME!). I started by teaching them "The Star-Spangled
Banner." We spent an hour learning new vocabulary like "pride"
"dawn" "hailed" "twilight""rhythm"
"note" and "pitch." We practiced pronunciation, then I
clapped along the rhythms, then we added the pitch, then finally we sang along
to some very patriotic music. It was a lot of improvisation! I didn't think to
teach them about rhythm until I realized how difficult it was to sing the words
in the correct rhythm. Teaching requires a lot of present moment awareness and
spunk! I was singing high notes (I sounded like an alley cat, it was not so
good), clapping along like a nut and jumping around when they sang the phrase
correctly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I shared with them how I spend my
fourth of July - I take the train to Connecticut, I hang out at the pool, I
have a barbeque with my little cousins, etc. "Connecticut" was a hard
word - we talked about the 13 stripes for the 13 original colonies and the 50
stars for the 50 states. I asked if anyone knew all 50 states (no), then I sang
them the 50 states song I learned in second grade that I like to pull out as a
party trick (all 50 states in alphabetical order). They cheered! And I almost
passed out; I was so out of breath! After that, the students spent time writing
about how they celebrate Independence Day in Vietnam. My TAs (I had two today -
Duc and Le! It was great!) and I walked around helping the students. I sit down
with a student and they eagerly put their notebook in front of me and point to
the start of their paragraph. I read through each sentence, understand what
they are meaning to say in English, then think of a way to rephrase it if
necessary or add the correct conjunctions, punctuation, etc. Vietnamese has
some words that we don't have in English - for example, one of the kids was
asking for the word that means "to speak with family about feelings,
friends, etc" - I told them "to speak openly" or "to speak
intimately" - what a beautiful thing, to have a word that captures
speaking intimately and sharing openly with loved ones. After writing each
student came to the front of the class to read aloud. We learned the phrase
"front and center!!!!" and they were projecting 100 times more than
on the first day. At first I was standing up at the front with them, and they
would read to me, more quietly - I would say "louder! Read to the
class!" Then when that wasn't working I walked to the back of the
classroom, sat down on a desk, and said "ok! I have to hear you from here!
Go! Tell me!" That worked great. We had a lot of fun, there was a ton of
cheering and some beautiful things were said like "my country is the best
country in my heart" and "I am very proud of my country." A lot
of the kids incorporated vocabulary like "twilight" "to go on a
picnic" "fishing" "swimming" and "awesome."
We started a little routine in my class - after a student reads aloud, they get
to point to the next person to read - they have a lot of fun with that! So many
giggles. I think getting to choose the next victim is 95% of what gets them up
to the front of the room in the first place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">At the end of class we discussed our plans for the talent show next
week. We have some ideas for songs (I will keep it a secret here, I don't want
anyone copying us…) and plan to learn a dance. I dismissed the kids about three
times before they left - Trang had to come get us for lunch and I was like
"ok guys! Really! Go home now! See you later!" It was very
cute. This afternoon we decided to go out and celebrate. We went to get
sugar cane juice (my first ever!) around the corner – the woman had sugar cane
that she cut up and juiced right in front of us, it was delicious! We all sat
together, talked, and played games. I paid for everyone’s juice – it was less
than $5 for 19 juices! After that we went on a huge ADVENTURE!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The kids got on their bikes and I rode on the back of Huy’s bike. There
is a metal “seat” on the back and Huy offered to be my “driver” – a word we
learned the other day! I was holding on for dear life as we rode down the
street like a gang, super close to each other as trucks, motorbikes and buses
whizzed by. The other kids riding on the backs of the bikes were on their
phones, not holding on, no big deal. Some of the girls had motorbikes and would
take the hand of someone riding a bike to help them move faster. We biked about
2km and then took off down a dirt road. Pretty soon there were rice paddies to
our left and a lake and mountains to our right. It was amazing! We walked
across a VERY slippery dam (it was covered with algae), then hiked a bit (we
crossed paths with an angry, smelly cow) and went to a rambutan garden.
Rambutans are delicious, beautiful tropical fruits (check out the pictures
below). We hung out in the trees and had a lot of fun joking around. Then we
walked a bit more past lots of pepper trees, eating tons of rambutans (the kids
kept offering me more and more). Throughout our adventure the kids were right
by my side, holding their hands out offering to help me (I think they were
surprised at how easily I hoisted myself up the wall on the other side of the
dam!). We made our way back across the dam, and I told the kids I would meet
them by the rice paddies while they got their bikes. I walked up a rocky path
lined with trees, then the view came into sight – just huge space, beautiful
mountains, ducks, motorbikes, rice paddies – and I thought to myself “holy
crap. I’m in Vietnam. I’m in Vietnam! This is amazing!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We had a fun ride back with two of the girls on a motorbike helping pull
Huy and I along. When we passed some ducks at the lake one of the girls said “Laura
– DUCK Linh!!” I died. That’s my kind of humor! At one point one of the girls
said “Laura! You are a beautiful girl” and I said “you are beautiful girls!”
and Huy said “no no YOU are a beautiful girl” and I said to Huy “no Huy, YOU
are a beautiful girl!” and we all cracked up. “No!! He is a handsome boy!”
“That’s right! Handsome.” It was an awesome afternoon – I bonded with my class
and they bonded with each other, they are really starting to open up and have
fun! When I woke up this morning I had no idea I would drink sugar cane juice,
ride on the back of a bike with a 15 year old Vietnamese boy, walk across a
slippery dam, be within inches of an angry cow and pick fresh rambutans. My
plan was “teach them the National Anthem and see what happens.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We got back just before five and it was time to make dinner – we decided
to try making American food for the 4<sup>th</sup> of July (usually our cook
prepares all of our meals). We made corn on the cob, French fries and hot dogs
– Vietnamese versions, so it was interesting! We had a ton of delicious
tropical fruits afterwards. While we were preparing dinner little Huy (not the
one who took me on the bike, the one who can break-dance) said something to me
in Vietnamese and pointed to a wall about 30 feet away. He said “one, two,
three!” and took off running. He wanted to race me! So we raced back and forth
“one, two, three, go!” He is so fast!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Currently sitting in the back of a classroom typing while the kids watch
Kung Fu Panda 2 – they are cracking up! Map is sitting here with me watching me
type, imitating my typing with his fingers, and saying my name “Lowra
Vol-pah-key-oh.” I just pointed to the word “Map” and he looked at it and
smiled and pointed to himself. Tomorrow we go on a beach trip – next blog post
will be later this weekend. I hope you all enjoy the beautiful landscape in
these photos as much as I did today! Happy Fourth of July! It was a day of
firsts, adventure, and independence for me. First week of classes down</span>!</div>
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We learned the phrase "to be proud of" I said "who are you proud of?" one girl said "myself!"</div>
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Look at that! He fixed his glasses himself!</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Hahahah! He came to hang with me in class today and is sending me cryptic messages on Facebook like "<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; line-height: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">she has donated her Laura Volpacchio pen Liberty yesterday" (I gave him an NYC pencil the other day)</span></span></div>
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Above the board in every classroom</div>
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This was my board at the end of class after several rounds of erasing and adding new words!</div>
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They write on everything with the chalk - the doors, the desks, the walls, anything! Do you see the English word in the upper right hand corner? :)</div>
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Yummy sugar cane juice!<br />
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Li and Huy!<br />
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The dam!<br />
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Yahoo!<br />
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Here come the girls<br />
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Rambutans!<br />
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I arrived at class and some of the girls had written my name on the board - "Lora." Today we learned <a name='more'></a>about transportation and travel. I had several new faces in my class today, including some of the brothers who work at the church (I eat with these guys every day, but they are very quiet. I was excited that they came! They're in their late twenties). I have a ton of new Vietnamese Facebook friends, and according to Facebook as of 5pm yesterday, two of my students are "in a relationship," so I had fun teasing them a little bit - "Boyfriend and girlfriend!?" "Nonononono!!" "Yes! On Facebook! It's official!" "Nononono! Not official!" We learned about modes of transportation - I started by asking them for words which I wrote on the board (one of the brothers said "UFO!!!") then I introduced some new vocabulary as well as some travel verbs and phrases like "on time" and "to be in a rush." My TA Le had the great idea to have the new students introduce themselves to the class like we did on the first day. One of the boys has 5 sisters, 4 brothers, and 5 dogs!!! I said "are your parents tired?" Le translated for me and he smiled and nodded "yes." I loved to hear about their lives and families. Most of them are very quiet when they speak to the class. My little buddy Map was hanging in my class for a little this morning, and he helped me demonstrate "loud" and "quiet" - (screaming) "LOUD!!!!" (whispering) "quiet…"</div>
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We broke up into pairs to work on a conversation in which two friends talked about their summer travel plans. The conversation mentioned places like San Francisco, New York, St. Louis, Chicago and Boston. I pulled up photos of each place on my computer and walked around to each pair to show them the photos and talk to them about the places. They pointed to things like the Gateway Arch asking me what it was called. One of the girls saw Central Park and said "it's like a resort!" I pointed to the general direction of my apartment and told them "that's where I live!" They were amazed - so close to the resort! When I showed them a picture of D.C. they said "White House!!!" Each group said "thank you" after I finished showing them the photos and talking with them. None of my students have been to the United States and I have been to almost every place that we talked about today. I felt so lucky and grateful. I thought back to my time on tour with "West Side Story" and all of the places in the United States I saw on that contract - suddenly that time we drove by Wrigley Field on a 12 hour bus ride between shows, smelly and tired and sore and pissed off, turned into a blessing. I felt so lucky to be able to show them the picture of the bean in Chicago and say "I've been there. I saw my reflection in that bean!"</div>
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One of the words we learned today was "awesome." It was in the conversation we worked on and it's a word I use frequently with my students - it's a difficult one to pronounce. I was explaining what it meant to one of the girls "it means very good" and she said "oh! you're on fire!!!" and I was so excited!!! She remembered from the first day! Towards the end of class in the morning we began a writing assignment about a "dream trip." The students are excited to have me come sit with them and correct their work, and are always very gracious ("Oh! Thank you!") and open to learning. In the afternoon I taught vocabulary to students that weren't there in the morning, we continued with our writing assignment, and then we played a fun game of pictionary (Team Lucky Star vs Team Lonely Star - their name choices!)</div>
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After that it was playtime! I danced for literally an hour straight and was dripping with sweat, sunscreen and bug spray. The kids make a circle around me and I tried to get them to join in but they just stood there watching. At one point I was just doing a full improvisation performance - floorwork and everything (I was filthy, but no worries - the little girls like to help keep my clean by brushing me off, picking away lint, fixing my clothes etc). My girl group entourage remained loyal following me wherever I went. At one point we were sitting down together and one of the girls asked Trang (in Vietnamese) what my religion was. That's a long story, so I showed her my rosary bracelet that my friend Becky (hi Bec!) got me in Medjugorje. I have been wearing it every day on this trip along with an angel bracelet my mom made for me (hi Mom!). After I pointed to it and the girls grabbed my wrist and looked at it, they held out their wrists and showed me their own rosary bracelets! It was a very special moment - we can't understand what the other is saying, but we know exactly what the rosary means, what prayer means, what faith and love and compassion mean. There was a pretty epic "Let It Go" sing along with all of the teachers and the kids, followed by an amazing dance party. Check out the video at the bottom! Little Huy is pretty much a breakdancer! It started pouring after dinner so I enjoyed a run home in the rain - it felt so good to run! I miss my runs in Riverside Park but I have to say running down the street in the pouring rain in Duc Linh was pretty awesome. I was soaked through by the time I got back to my room. Tomorrow we will learn "The Star Spangled Banner" for the fourth of July! Time to rest (my voice is DEAD! Somehow it works with the kids - I scream and sing my face off all day, then by the end of the night I'm hoarse and coughing like crazy).</div>
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Some of my students riding home from class (the mask is for the smog caused by motorbikes and trucks)</div>
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Little Huy!!</div>
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This is how we wash our dishes! Assembly line!</div>
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Practicing - some of the girls can do full splits! One of them can kick her face!</div>
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After breakfast it was time for class. Today we learned about family life. We started with vocabulary and they did great - we learned all about marriage, stepparents, in-laws, having babies, etc. I taught them the word "nickname" and then taught them nicknames for Grandmother and Grandfather like Nana and Poppop! It was very cute hearing them say "Nahnuh" and "Poppop" with a nice enunciated "p" sound. When we got to "boyfriend" I said "does anyone have a boyfriend?" (no) then "does anyone want a boyfriend?" (giggles and vigorous head nods NO). I taught them the word "annoying" to refer to husbands, wives, boyfriends, siblings and children, hahaha!! Don't worry, I taught them nice words too like "love" "to love" and "to spend time with." I told them all about my family and they loved hearing about my siblings - they repeated me after I said each name - "Ali" "Ah-leeee" "Nicholas" "Nee-coh-lass" "Julia" "Joolia." It was very cute. We did a writing assignment where they wrote about their families and then wrote about their future family - when they would get married, how many children they would have, what their spouse would be like. We spent about a half hour writing, then I went around and corrected each student individually before they each read aloud. The kids would listen to the reader, then I would ask questions to review and make sure they understood, like "how many sisters does she have? How old are they?" This was hard because sometimes I forgot what the student said! Haha! The kids wrote beautiful sweet things about their families, like "my family is amazing, when I go away from home I always miss my family" and kick-ass things about their future like "I will get married after I find a stable job" (that was from a 16 year old girl! I said "YEAH! INDEPENDENT WOMAN!" And they all laughed). A few of them wrote "I hope my children don't annoy me" - amazing. After that they wanted me to sing for them, so I sang some random songs and then they wanted to sing the song we learned yesterday ("Bad Day") - check out my Instagram for a video of that (@levolpacch).</div>
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This afternoon we made family trees and I worked individually with the kids (there were only four in the afternoon). One of them, Li ("Lee"), did the writing assignment we did in the morning and she wrote "I do not want to get married or have children. It is too annoying. I want to live forever with my cats." She wants to be an astronomer - it's her "dream job," a phrase she learned today. After that it was playtime! I haven't done any yoga for a week now, so I just started doing some yoga. The kids made a circle around me staring at me, going "OHHHHHH" when I did different poses. Then we made a dance circle with all of the Vietnamese teachers and I dancing around, and the kids in a circle around us. We learned some more ballet, and I was followed around by my girl group. They would follow me to my classroom, hide when I went in, then when I came out they would stay quiet in the other room when I called for them and as I walked away they would quietly re assume their positions behind me. So funny! At one point I said "oh my gahhhh" and they all copied me - my and a group of little girls walking around saying "oh my gahhhhh"! Haha! One of the girls said "you are beautiful!" and I said "you are beautiful!" and she said "no you!" and I said "no you!" - this went on for a while. I have a Lululemon bag with me that I keep my notebook and curriculum book in. There is a picture of a ballerina in a bridge (backbend on the floor) on the bag, and the kids pointed to it and then pointed to me. I had no choice. I got on the ground and did the bridge and they exclaimed "OHHHHHH!!!!!"<br />
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Me and my TA Le with our class!!</div>
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VAN!!!!!! Vietnamese teacher and fellow Team Sassy member ;)</div>
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The kindergarten next door</div>
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Today in class we learned about "Daily Life." We started with vocabulary: I wrote a word or phrase on the board like "to take a shower," I said it and the kids repeated several times, then I asked them what it means. My TA interjected in Vietnamese when necessary to clear up confusion. We spent about an hour doing this. At one point they were doing so well that I exclaimed "you're on fire!!!" then explained to them what the phrase meant, they repeated it, and I used it several more times throughout class (they giggled, smiled, and said "thank you" in response). We spent some time writing about our daily lives, which was interesting because I got to hear about their lives! Most of them wake early, eat noodles for breakfast, come to class, go home, take a rest, help their parents with housework, come back to class, play, go home for dinner, take a shower, and go to sleep. A lot of them like to watch TV, play sports, listen to music and read books. We talked about praying and meditating, going to church, "hanging out" with friends and family (I used "I hang out with my boyfriend" as an example, accompanied by an eyebrow raise, and got some chuckles). I helped them correct their writing, they read aloud, and then I spoke about my daily life in slow sentences and they wrote down what I said, to practice listening comprehsnion and writing in English. After that we worked on a conversation, learning lots of new words like "superb" "mediocre" "awesome" "Portuguese" "pitch" and "faith." It was awesome! The kids were a little more comfortable and confident today, and so was I. I'm getting the hang of it - patience is the most important thing, with myself and with my students (probably moreso with myself!). If I use simple language and speak very slowly and clearly, usually they can understand. I had a great time, and they are so cute, saying "Lowrah" when they need help and pointing to the word, then repeating after me. The motto of every school in Vietnam is "learn well, teach well, and compete." These kids are diligent students, education is very important to them.</div>
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Now, all the classes are open air, and it's an open door policy. So students can walk in and out as they please. By midmorning I had about 20 little kids standing in my doorway and hanging on the window frame, just staring at us (me). I would go out there with my camera and pull it up to take pictures of them and they would giggle and scatter. I saw some of my cute little girl friends from yesterday who gave me hugs, and talked with some of the more outspoken little boys - one of whom would say "my name is LOWWWWRAH" and I would chase after him trying to smack his butt while everyone giggled and ran around. My students did great and didn't get distracted by all the crazy little kids making noise and coming in and out of our room. I taught them the word "crazy" to refer to the kids - especially this one chubby little boy whose teacher calls him "map" (pronounced "muhp"- it means fat in Vietnamese!), who came into my classroom several times and sat on a bench pretending to meditate (I think he saw me this morning, he likes to make fun of me).<br />
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In the afternoon I taught the kids the song "Bad Day" - we learned all the words, then sang it several times. We played a little bit of hangman to review the vocabulary we learned this morning and then it was playtime! Again my kids left, but I was immediately swept up by an entourage of little kids. Some of them (my buddy Map) hung out in my class the entire time I was working with my students. They were ATTACHED to me. Holding my hand, my arms, my hair - I could barely move and I was SO SWEATY! They kept saying "Lowrah!!!" and then speaking to me in Vietnamese. Map (Muhp) asked one of the Vietnamese teachers if I have a boyfriend. I danced around with the kids and we had fun learning how to turn and jump. One of the little girls whipped out a perfect split! Check out the video below of us dancing, it's pretty funny! It was an exhausting hour and a half - now I know what it feels like to be famous!! I had to tell one of the other girls to explain to the kids that I had to go to the bathroom so they wouldn't follow me in! We are resting now (my voice is SHOT), then dinner time, then it's MOVIE NIGHT with my new favorite Disney movie (that's right, "The Little Mermaid" no longer reigns supreme in by book) FROZEN. There will be Vietnamese subtitles for the kids - I have heard some of them sing "Let It Go" already so it should be entertaining! Lots of pictures from today, and a video at the bottom (thanks to Quynh!):</div>
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The line of classrooms - all the kids ride their bikes to class!</div>
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Some of my little girl friends</div>
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My diligent class - small but mighty!</div>
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Sassypants ("Map") back for more making fun of me</div>
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Remember her from yesterday? She was excited to see me this morning! I gave her a big hug.<br />
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Kids pouring into my classroom while my students were trying to write! This wasn't even the worst of it!</div>
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Can you handle this?</div>
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Around the grounds</div>
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Yeah! The Vietnamese teachers! And Dan from California!</div>
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View down the street (I think you will be seeing many photos of this view!)</div>
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The church! This is where all the magic happens!<br />
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Here he is again - my Vietnamese boyfriend<br />
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They are starting to like posing for the camera!<br />
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Today was my first day of school since 2010! So far I have about 15 kids in my class - 3 boys and the <br />
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To start, each student came to the front and introduced themselves (this took a lot of work and some bribery!). They asked me to sing songs for them ("As Long As You Love Me"), we played some games inside and outside, I taught them some ballet positions, and then we spent an hour learning "American Life" vocabulary. I wrote a word like "teenager" on the board, sounded it out, they repeated me several times, and I explained to them what the word means (then my TA translated into Vietnamese). When we got to "pledge of allegiance" and "national anthem" I asked them about the Vietnamese national anthem, and they all sang it for me. Then they said "ok, now you!" so I sang the Star Spangled Banner with some muttering in there - at first I was like "crap, I don't know all the words! And what about those high notes!?" and then I remembered they wouldn't know the difference - and they didn't! My voice cracked and I made words up (I DEFINITELY would not have gotten a callback) but the kids applauded me enthusiastically. A developing theme of this trip is to just go for it - it doesn't matter how "well" I dance, sing, teach, etc - being there is enough. I am already good enough, and to some of these kids, I am even better than that. </div>
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Class was much smaller in the afternoon. The kids come when they can, so each class is kind of a "go with the flow" situation (another great developing theme/lesson of this trip - I know some of you are giggling at that, as you know "going with the flow" is not exactly my favorite thing to do). We spent some time writing and played hangman, then it was time to go outside and play - since my students are older most of them left. We played for hours with all the little kids - all sorts of games they like to play in Vietnam, like "Ninja" (see pics below!). I had a lot of little girls staring at me, following me around, touching my clothes, analyzing my fingers, holding my hand, trying to touch the top of my head (they can't!) and pointing at me from afar giggling. It was very adorable. One of the other volunteers later told me that some of the students said I am "as beautiful as a doll" and that my eyes are SO big! It's sweet that they think I'm so special - those comments definitely made me giggle. One of the little girls is very adamant about me dancing for them. This morning after our first class there was an impromptu performance and I told her (via my trusty translator Trang) that when we have a talent show I will perform a dance for them. The little girl said (in Vietnamese) that it has to be a whole song, and she will bring me flowers. UGH! Can you handle that!?!? Someone put this kid behind a casting table in NYC, I'll be on Broadway in no time!!!</div>
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We are all EXHAUSTED. Resting now, then dinner time, then we may have a class with some adults tonight. Today was interesting and challenging, but I think if I go a day at a time, one miscommunication at a time, I'll be able to give these kids a little something. They are already giving me joy, love, and laughter - and some pretty awesome photos.<br />
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This is my fat baby friend! He lives where we sleep, and he likes to come bang on my door and follow me around…and stuff his face with cookies!</div>
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It's Huy, the mosquito killer! He's shooting hoops!</div>
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This cutie was following me around holding my hand, I have a new bestie!</div>
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Quynh, one of the teachers, running around with the kids! We are all exhausted! As my SASSY (that's our new favorite English word among the volunteers) fellow teacher Van said at the end of the afternoon "I am dying on the inside and the outside."</div>
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We woke up early this morning to go to the church, where there was some sort of youth program going on at 6:30am. <br />
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We had plans to go to a farm with some of the kids but there was a monsoon-status downpour this afternoon so we stayed inside instead. This evening we had a Skype session with our fellow volunteers up north in Hue (ETA4's other program) which already has 1,400 kids registered for classes! Tomorrow is day one of the program - we will see who shows up (and how many!), place them in the appropriate level, and go from there! We choreographed a pretty hilarious dance together to do for the kids to the tune of "YMCA" but we say "ETA4" instead - we were cracking up. We ate dinner with the Father after mass (there are three masses a day at the church), and after we finished eating he asked me (in Vietnamese, translated by Trang, one of our amazing fearless leaders) how long I sit and meditate. I guess he saw me in the pagoda yesterday! He told me (via Trang) that he meditates an hour each day and told us about a healer who meditates for five hours a day and has cured people of all sorts of ailments - she is coming to the village soon, maybe she can heal my sore throat! Time to spend some time looking at the coursework and thinking about how I want to go about teaching my first class - wish me luck!!</div>
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There are a few dogs who live at the church. One of them gave birth to the tiniest puppies recently - they can't even open their eyes yet! They live in a box next to the kitchen.</div>
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Check it out! Those are our classrooms!</div>
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Check out that little girl! She was posing for me! They saw me with the camera immediately and started giggling and smiling at me. </div>
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This is where I taught the volunteers some ballet this morning!</div>
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Peace!<br />
Laura<br />
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Sweet old Vietnamese lady at the church this morning, holding my hands: "WHERE YOU FROM?"</div>
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Sweet lady, with a big smile: "AHHHH!! HAHAHAHAHA!"<br />
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Today we woke up bright and early, headed over to the church (it's a two minute walk down and across the street from where we are staying), had breakfast and went out to meet some of the kids and review the teaching material a bit. The program doesn't officially begin until Monday, but the church is the center of this town and a lot of the kids ride their bikes over to play! Usually there are two or three kids riding one bike together. They are all generous with their smiles as they pass us by. I like to wave and say "hello!" and usually I get a nice (adorable) "hah-low!" back. Little Huy (remember him from yesterday?) likes to give high fives as he passes by on his bike. At the church there are classrooms (where we will be teaching), basketball courts, soccer fields, and two swimming pools - the Father of the church cares a lot about giving the children things to do. There are some nice statues and pagodas around as well. I spent a little time under a pagoda in the rain this afternoon, doing some yoga and meditating while the kids swam at the pool - they jump right in fully clothed and ride home in the rain when they're tired (no towels). It rains BUCKETS here! It is so loud on the roof - the perfect sleeping sound. Good thing I brought my rain boots, jacket and umbrella. The majority of the other volunteers are Vietnamese and live here in Vietnam. They have commented on my "matching" outfits and of course my height - one of them said to me this evening "I don't need to go to New York City to see a New Yorker, the New Yorker came to me!" </div>
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I made friends with the big fat baby who lives where we are staying (you can see him on my Instagram). He is maybe two years old and <i>quite</i> rotund. We all crack up when we see him waddle around. The first day we got here he was wearing one of those mesh tanks that some of my fabulous gay friends might wear to the club - we got a kick out of that. He had fun hanging out with me, playing Shakira on his phone (quite consistent with the mesh shirt), and taking pictures of me on the phone. I was amazed that he could work the phone so well! He would take a picture, then show it to me, point out that it was me, and giggle. Then I did the same thing on my phone. We did this for about twenty minutes - taking pictures of each other, showing the other one, and giggling. It was very silly. So many stories and tidbits to share!! But for now, photos will do:</div>
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This is my buddy Huy. He is five years old and can count to 10 in English. I can count to nothing in Vietnamese. So we had a nice time speaking to each other in our own languages as we caught mosquitoes together.<br />
<a name='more'></a> My room was swarming with them when we first got in there, but Huy is a skilled captor! He catches them in his hands and was explaining to me (in Vietnamese, with hand demonstrations) the best way to clap to get the mosquito. I got a few of them and jumped up and down with glee! Huy looked at me like <i>"yea…you caught two mosquitoes…I caught ten in the same amount of time…congratulations…</i>" ha!</div>
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