Oh Go GOd my Lord!!! Today was off the charts in the realm of strange!
I have sung karoake now before I'm 30 with a bunch of Vietnamese and My Whitney Houston Song, I wanna dance, became some weird awful song that i still had to sing....and then i had basically everyhair on my body pulled by that little string, gawd under the armpits hurt. I was lost, stuck, handed from one kind female merchant to the next in a vietnamese market place, and i dont know how many people wanted to touch my hair and called me lovely today but i cant count them on my fingers and toes....a very intense day!!!
I started out with the best breakfast of champions, dad you'll have to tell beth, i had the most amazing Banana pancakes and i can't wait to have more!!! then changed hotels from one that i took because i was tired of being on the bus and couldnt be bothered with flagging down a taxi or finding my hotel and then to the one i intended...and they are completely different. i am now in by far one of the most lucurious rooms and hotels for $30. then i went out into the marketplace, which while looking forward to is so intense, thatI definitely know i do not like shopping in Vietnam. It's all about bargaining and i suck, Luisa where are you to help me underbid the owner!!!!! So after i bought my clothes which i will see tomorrow, got lost finding my way back to center of town and ended up in the vientamese market place, and there i stayed for the next 5 hours. It's almost impossible to leave! 5 hours it took me and jesus christ i tried and then they just pull you back in....anything and everything is sold there are more than a million women pulling you every which way, there is no oxygen, it's insane.......!!!!!!!! and then i made it out and i thought i was done, but no! the woman who gave me a manicure this morning who asked me for beers found me and then took me on her automatic bicycle, which was so crazy amazing, but seriously crazy being on the back i have a photo! and then ate and went to karaoke with her friends and had my authentic vietnamese night out; again had amazing food, including clams but had to suffer and smile through light "Tiger" beer and then karoake which after the first song kinda sounded like screeching cats on the fence. Of course, i still kept on my crazy smiling happy to experience this face. but after i sang my non-Whiteney Houston, i wanna dance song, finally had enough.
Good god my lord!!!! is all i can come up with to describe my very intense day. My next two days in Hoi An will definitely not involve more shopping or markets, i am done;)
And wow, I just read through my post and it is not at all eloquent. My apologies but it kinda mirros my day; it was just go..go...go, which by the way is "dee, dee, dee" in Vietnamese.
xoxoxxoxo
You finally did karaoke! Sounds like you didn't get to do your meatloaf song though....no worries...you can do that when you return. What a crazy day it sounds like...just remember when bargaining...always walk away and if they come back after you, it means there is still room to negotiate a better price....a little trick I picked up in Thailand.
ReplyDeleteAnyways....Happy Cambodia BDAY Jenna!! I hope you have a great day. Have a drink on me in celebration (as long as its not snake infused....ugh!). Look forward to hearing about your bday adventures.
xoxox Mick
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Agathe et Vanina
It's 00:31 here so it must be must be 15:31 your time either way, its still
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Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you,
happy birthday dear Jenna,
happy birthday to you!
We're glad you're part of our lives!!
Mom & Dad
Happy B-Day!!!!!! You are officially old today!! =) I am so nice. So, here is the key to bargaining. State your price, but go way low initially, then go back and forth with them until you get to the price you were originally aiming for. Or,if you look super irritated they always seem to agree with your price. Or, when after a few minutes of bargaining and they don't agree to your price just say "I'm sure someone else will sell it to me for this price" and then just walk a way. That works like a charm!
ReplyDeleteWell, I hadn't found anything to comment on so far, but now that I hear you finally made it to karaoke, I'm piping up. Yay Jenna! I hope you had the most wonderful birthday! Remember that Vietnamese place we went to in San Jose with Shosh where we had weird lemon egg drinks and crazy Karaoke? Now we HAVE to go back!
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