First Week.

Orientation week is almost over. Next week class begins. I'm actually excited about school. A lot of classes on finance and business related stuff. Recap on this week.
On Tuesday(11), took a tour around the Hanoi area. It took about 1.5- 2 hours. It was really the hardest walk ever in my life so far, but saw a lot of interesting things (like in the pictures i took). My flip flop SUCKS ASS! how can people stand it? The middle strap shit hurts like hell. So I gotta go do some shopping. Eating here is awesome! food is ever so good and ever so cheap! Although the portion is small, but that's because people here don't eat that much. Dinner had some "bo biftek", which i thought was "beef steak", but it wasn't. Still beef though. Went on a night outing with the group after dinner. Drank some beer and this one ended up being the type i'm allergic to. F-UCKED! This was by far the worst allergic reaction I've experienced. I think the humidity and heat aggravated it. My skin got all rashy, itchy,and lumpy. Not the prettiest of sight..
Weds(12), Gerard took eap anD hanU students to bia hoi, which pretty much means more beer. I wasn't gonna drink any so Gerard got me some "ruou de", which is the fermented alcohol with weird stuff in there. Thanks Gerard.....Since it was for the experience took me couple of shots. Then we took the bottle and went around pressuring all the other kids to drink too. Things got a bit crazy when people took the fermented stuff out, in this case mainly worms and took shots/ eat them. I had enough of the alcohol and i was still recovering from the allergic reaction, so i called it quit when the worms came out. Afterward, went to a karaoke bar. The place was quite extravagant. The hallway was like a light show and the room was nicely decorated. Goes to show vietnamese people's passion for one of their favorite hobby.
Thurs(13) went to the Vietcom tower and watched UP. Fell asleep during most of the movie, but the beginning was good (the cloud and stork part). Afterward, since i had my nap already went out with couple people for sinh to (smoothie). Had a nice talk until the curfew. Then went back to the dorms for some poker. Surprisingly, I was doing pretty well, but I lost patience and went back to all in. lol. So ended up being 2nd place with a winning of 40,000!....vn dollar that is(about 2 U.S dollar) haha.
Friday (14) Went to KFC for lunch. Chicken was a bit better than in the states since they used less oil here. The ketchup though..i think it had bourbon in it. Haven't gone out for the night yet, so update later. Guess I should start on homework. Night!

..didn't really do hw. went out to eat at an "expensive" restaurant. 80,000!(4 something..) portion was small so you have to order at least two plates. that's why it's expensive. Then went to a club. drank a little..danced a little. pretty much the typical club..except this one played trance. but whatever..it's all part of the experience. tired..............!