Yesterday, Jack, JB, and Michael went to the airport to pickup Cynthia, Baba and our delayed luggage. Me and mom ventured down to the market while they were gone. It was unlike any other market that I had been in. There was no cheap touristy crap that the locals just used to make money off stupid foreigners (ok there was some of that). The stuff being sold ranged from clothes to sheets to pig legs. The market acted as an american mall. You would be walking and end up in this never ending clothes section. No lie, it was like you were in a cave made out of clothes with these little leeches on the cave walls grabbing you and trying to suck you in to there little hole so then they could try and persuade you that you really needed something. Once we finally burned the leeches off with a lighter (so we didn't actually use a lighter but it took some strong force) we found out way to the grocery part of this super Wal-less Mart. Someone needs to let Bi-Lo (or you grocery store of choice) know that the only way to supply fresh food to your customers is to kill it right before them. Oh and another thing Bi-Lo, it is the 21st century and we, in America, don't discriminate. So, do as the Vietnamese do and sell every part of that pig that you kill. I mean who doesn't want to eat a brain; brains make you smart so eating a brain should make you smarter. And how cool would it be to say that you had bbq heart for dinner. Needless to say the market had some very interesting smells going on.
We had a pill packing party which turned into an pills already packed party. But we did how ever get our name tags with our jobs for the week on them. Jordan got presented with the job of wheel chair assembly dude. I have to give JB props because he can make some stuff. But usually he likes for it to involve some type of power tool or otherwise it doesn't get done (or it just takes a little longer).
For lunch we went to the Vietnam House. It was extremely good. I had pineapple fried rice in a real, full blown pineapple. It was quit tasty. Jordan had seafood fried rice on a boring plate. Mom got nasty tofu but she did get cocoanut water in a cocoanut, which was pretty cool.
Fast forward a day and you would find me, yet again, on a plane. Today, Sunday, we flew to Hue (pronounced like way). We then rode a bus 30 min. to the hotel. We went and got linner (lunch+dinner). We got a ton of food and it was $5.25 a person. That was about the extent of today. Tomorrow is the first day of clinic and it should be pretty interesting.
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