Bien Hoa, Day 1

We made it in yesterday afternoon, just in time to prepare for our first classes (!) last night at 5:30.  We’re back in another teeny tiny hotel room, except that this one doesn’t have a window and smells sort of funny.  Awesome!  It’s our own dumb fault for taking so long to accept the job, though—by the time we called to say yes, the house we looked at a week ago had already been rented.  It’ll only be for a few days until we find something else.

Teaching last night was very interesting.  All of our teaching practices were with high school students, so little ones were a big change.  I had a class of 10-11 year-olds, and Joey had the primary students—5-6 year olds!  I’m not sure how they decided who to assign to which class, but it was fun.*  We more or less walked in there with textbooks and winged it…  Jeff, a crazy 59-year-old Frenchman from our TEFL course, would say:  “I think—eez good!  But we need more prac-teez.”

Neither of us teach today, so we’ll be exploring Bien Hoa, finding a motorbike to rent, and looking for a house.  Wish us luck!

 

 

*Tangent:  I’m writing from an open-air cafe with WIFI, and there’s a huge lizard crawling around on the floor near me.  There are always little geckos on the walls no matter where you go, but this guy is definitely a lizard!  Is he going to come over here and chew on my toes?