Pics are up!

The pics of my trip are up, I did one post for each day so to see them in order, scroll down to Day 1 and start from there. Now that I'm back it's time for Winter Intensive classes so all this month I get to go into work 2 hours earlier every day and teach an extra conversation class. Other than the extra time required, it's really quite fun, my intensive class has 4 students, 2 girls and 2 boys, all highly energetic and borderline ADHD :). Getting them to pay attention takes about 3/4 of the class time.

Meanwhile, life is good, I've been spending lots of time with friends and trying to think about plans for this year. Plans are to head to a Korean hockey game this weekend so I'll be sure to post about that... bet you didn't know Korea had ice hockey! I didnt...

1/1/09 - last day of the trip

Some final shots of Vietnam...

Love riding on the back of a motorbike!

Amazing Benh Tanh market

Goodbye Vietnam!

12/31/08 - New Years Eve in Vietnam

A rubber tree farm we passed on the way out of Saigon - we were heading to see the ChuChi tunnels.

An example of a trap door for getting down into the tunnels during the war. The soldier actually demonstrated fitting down inside that tiny whole and once we closed the door you couldn't tell anything was there at all.

Me on top of a US tank that was destroyed by a landmine during the war

In the tunnels

Coming up from underground

After the tunnels we went to a place where handicapped people make these incredible works of art, hand-laying mother of pearl, egg-shell, etc.

Back in the city, eating Pho at the same restaurant where President Bill Clinton ate while in office

Cathedral modeled after Notre Dame

The reunification palace

The European-inspired post office

A US tank at the Vietnam War Museum

Later, ready to go out for New Years Eve

11/30/08 Cambodia IV and Vietnam I

Last day in Cambodia - we visited two more temples

A restaurant

A gas station

On the way to Vietnam

ready for our first night out in Saigon

Eating Pho - one of the best foods ever!

An example of the strange cuisine in Vietnam

12/29/08 Cambodia III

About to experience one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World

Ready to go out after a long day of sightseeing

Fruit market -where we bought 2 mangoes

Pineapple Fried Rice

Eating those mangoes we bought earlier

Enjoying the same cocktail that Angelina Jolie drank when she visited this bar a few years ago

Might have needed one more drink for this...here I am eating kangaroo, ostrich, crocodile, and snake. Snake was absolutely disgusting. The others were alright.

After dinner at a really popular bar, cleverly called "Angkor What?"