Day Three and still loving it!

So we finally got home yesterday! And we did so by riding motorbikes! I thought it was going to be the scariest moment of my life but instead i had to have been one of the greatest adventures. I think next time I will even be brave enough to take a picture while riding on one!
When we got home however, we opened the door and saw our table was missing. hmmm. Later on however, we found that our land lady had borrowed it from a friend and actually bought us a new one. But no one explained that to us so we spent 20 mins trying to talk with the delivery guy and figure out who had ordered it. Luckily our boss came in with land lady and it was paid for. What an ordeal but it was definitely something to laugh at.
Also yesterday, we observed our first class. It definitely made me nervous but excited at the same time. The students are precious and so interested in the new foreign teachers. According to our school, we are the first female American teachers they have had at the branch.

Day 3
Today we discovered we have internet! We will be getting a chord soon (hopefully). Once we had had our online time, we decided to go out to eat and grab coffee. Carolyn was brave at the stand and got fish (literally the whole fish) while I stayed safe and got an omelet. We are wondering how the people here stay so thin because including that we go rice and soup. Farther down the block we found coffee. One of the most interesting things we have observed about this culture is the way they manage time. In America, people will rush you out of a restaurant as soon as they see you are finished. Here we have to ask for the bill. Anyway, after breakfast and coffee Carolyn and I went to Metro (Vietnam's Costco) and got needed supplies! After Metro it was on back to our house for a breif moment and back to the same location (except right across the street) to our school for more observations. Now it's time for sleep!

So far we have me wonderful people. It is still hard to communicate with the national English teachers but they have been very generous in their desire to help us with anything we need. Justin and Thomas are two younger guys who work at the school and have been very helpful. Aside from our school we have made some friends in the stores near by. Ong (we don't really know the spelling) is the woman Carolyn bought her helmet from. We went back o see her again tonight. She is very sweet. We hope to learn more Vietnamese from her or from an employee from our school who said he would teach us Vietnamese if we help him with his English.

I hope all is well back home. I miss you all.