Adventures of an expat in Hanoi

Showing posts with label vietnam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vietnam. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Teaching 6 year olds!



So.. I started teaching 1st grade English in this primary school in the Hanoi suburbs. The kids are adorable! obedient too!! they raise their hands when they are done in class.
I work there three mornings a week, teach three classes, each class has 20 six year old kids ... of course cannot remember any names... The kids love having us there, they come hang out with me during the break.
I've been teaching them to "give me five". The kids have exercise during the break.. yeah those Asian exercises we all know about.. Each class room is equipped with a FLAT SCREN TV connect to a computer!! (you can see the computer screen through a windown in the desk)





Thursday, October 11, 2007

My motorbike



So.. it only took me a month till I broke down and rented a motorbike. Had enough of fighting with Taxi drivers/Bike Taxi drivers who kept taking long ways to get where I wanted to go (+ I had to take them at least three times a day).
Driving the bike is actually much easier than it seems. The drive like crazy maniacs here (I think most traffic roles are not applied). All those years maneuvering a scooter throughout the streets of Tel Aviv sure helped. But in general, you just go with the flow. I just try not to stand out because there have been times when foreigners were thrown off their bikes in order to steal it, or just your usual bag snatchers. So as you can see from the photos, I am wearing a face mask.. which is what most locals do, I think they assume it will protect them from the pollution, but I doubt it, in my case, it just hides me (though they can tell Im a foreigner because I am twice the size of a Viet). The moped is a Honda Wave, the most common bike here. I had to stick some Hello Kitty stickers on it so I could recognize it when I park :) haha... so me!