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CThomas



Joined: 21 Oct 2009
Posts: 380
Location: HCMC, Vietnam
PostPosted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 12:54 pm    Post subject: Vietnam is Aweseome -- Reply with quote
Do your footwork and take the plunge. Believe. Contribute. Do. Prosper.
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Wide Awake



Joined: 15 Feb 2010
Posts: 26
PostPosted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 1:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Get a new girlfriend or something? Very Happy
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CThomas



Joined: 21 Oct 2009
Posts: 380
Location: HCMC, Vietnam
PostPosted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 1:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Wide Awake wrote:
Get a new girlfriend or something? Very Happy


Dang, dude. Different conversation. This is for people who are dealing with the complexity of coming here in the first place. Girlfriends come later. Wink
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Wide Awake



Joined: 15 Feb 2010
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 1:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I feel the same way on most days, but then there are the other days...

Awesome? Yes, it can be. Bring a suitcase loaded with patience and tolerance though.
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londo



Joined: 27 Apr 2010
Posts: 107
Location: District 7
PostPosted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 2:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
You can get a new girlfriend in an hour if you want - someone who truly loves you takes time and you gotta know at least a little of the culture to do so. awesome place...

I agree, been here a good while and I can truly say nowhere has had me up and down like this place....some days bad, the good are truly awesome.

Worth jumping thru hoops for....for me yes. Had a bad day? - taxi driver cut you up? , been screwed? had 10 relatives turn up while you're stark naked watching a nice movie, drinking a cold beer? ....yeh,

but next morning you see the the sun, the palm trees, the truly spectacular, the absurd, the ambition, the drive and you think WTF I love this place
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BenE



Joined: 11 Oct 2008
Posts: 321
PostPosted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 5:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yes Vietnam is a great place.

It is possible to get a good job here and a work permit.
It is possible here to come fresh from your CELTA and make a sucess of yourself.
The people I've met here have blown me away and changed my life and direction forever.

Oh I've been here 1 1/2 years so I'm not just on the high at the beginning. Sadly I have to leave soon for the next place though I will certainly want to come back to continue doing the same here as I am doing right now.
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Wide Awake



Joined: 15 Feb 2010
Posts: 26
PostPosted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 6:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
For example:

After my last post I do what I really enjoy, which is taking the motorbike down to 1A and opening it up while sreaming "I'm king of the world!". After a while I pulled over to take a sip of Dr. Thanh and eat a sandwich, just watching the traffic go by. Within a minute one guy stopped to take a wizz beside me. Another bike pulled over and his girlfriend jumped off the back and started puking. Lovely!

I jumped back on, rode for a few minutes, then pulled off to the side again. This time an old lady and a younger guy started arguing. She picked up a brick and threw it at him! Dinner and a show. To his credit he didn't hit her. What would I have done if he had? Nothing. That's all I can do as a stranger in this strange land.
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Jerullan



Joined: 31 Aug 2009
Posts: 19
PostPosted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 9:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
BenE wrote:
Sadly I have to leave soon for the next place though I will certainly want to come back to continue doing the same here as I am doing right now.


You've been helpful to me with my newbie questions about Hanoi, BenE.

Thanks.

Best of luck, and where are you headed (if I may ask)?
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Andy123



Joined: 24 Sep 2009
Posts: 206
PostPosted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 2:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Read this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/business/10290933.stm

Why? Hmm.

Do your footwork is right.
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