The ten days spent in central Viet Nam can only be described as beautiful, even then I feel as though that word does it no justice.
Quieter streets, great food, and very pleasant people made it extremely hard for me to leave. Before coming to central, I was going through some things about my grasp of the Vietnamese language. I guess I was really discouraged being in Ha Noi and feeling as though I wasn't improving... Coming to the central and hearing people who sounded like me, made me feel so much more comfortable. For once since I came to Viet Nam I felt like I was able to communicate with a local. A random night in Da Nang, Lan and I went to get some mien ga around 3am and had a long conversation with the man who owned the stand. And here I was amazed with myself. I didn't know where this vocab or confidence came from, but I was able to talk about something other than "what did you do today?"
I just hope I can carry on with this in Ha Noi :)
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