I haven't updated in awhile (surprised? I'd hope not...). So I'm just going to skip over the stories about my trip to Kuwait (to NYC: bus driver lectured a passenger & made bffs with an old man from SanFran; to Kuwait: no movies on American Airlines, five hours in Charles de "Dull" airport, & sitting next to a creepy Indian man).
Anyways, so I've been here for a bit over a week and have done little to nothing. This is what I've done:
1. walked around
2. went to the school
3. met people
4. did a tiny bit of "sightseeing"
5. slowly making new friends
This is what I've learned about Kuwait/Kuwaitis
1. Any kind of road signs are just for decoration, like the speed limit, stop signs, and "give way" signs.
2. Kuwaitis are so loud. Like, so so soooo loud. Just when they speak! They speak-yell! They yeak!
3. They go to the mall and drive around for fun.
4. There isn't really Kuwaiti food. People eat everything but Kuwaiti food. I had something like a pakora at the souq last night and it was very bland, good, but very bland.
5. It's cold here.
That's it for now, homies.
Peace, love, & new countries!
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
Reporting from JFK
Here I am again, traveling. Not really traveling as in hopping from one spot to another a couple weeks at a time, but traveling through the air to land in a foriegn country that I will make my home for a bit.
Most of you know that I will be moving to Kuwait for an unknown amount of time. My parents have lived and worked in Kuwait for about a year and a half now and I have decided to join them. While there, for the remainder of this school year, I will be tutoring (hopefully) and getting started on my Master's! Exciting stuff.
Anywhos, I will be starting up my blog a bit more now since I'll be having more adventures (HOPEFULLY!). As I will be on a visitor's visa that is only valid for 90 days, I will have to leave the country every 3 months or so! Sooooo, DEFINITELY more adventures! New adventures make me so happy and excited! Straight up adrenaline rush starting in the pit of my stomach (weird?) and spreading through the rest of my body. Great, natural buzz.
Yea... that's my update for now. I'm sure I'll have a couple stories about my travel from JFK (where I am now) to Kuwait. I have layovers in Paris and Bahrain, landing in Kuwait about 1:30pm on Thursday east coast time (9:30pm in my new time zone). Already have a few from my trip from DC to JFK... so I'm sure there will be more.
Peace, love, & buzzes
Most of you know that I will be moving to Kuwait for an unknown amount of time. My parents have lived and worked in Kuwait for about a year and a half now and I have decided to join them. While there, for the remainder of this school year, I will be tutoring (hopefully) and getting started on my Master's! Exciting stuff.
Anywhos, I will be starting up my blog a bit more now since I'll be having more adventures (HOPEFULLY!). As I will be on a visitor's visa that is only valid for 90 days, I will have to leave the country every 3 months or so! Sooooo, DEFINITELY more adventures! New adventures make me so happy and excited! Straight up adrenaline rush starting in the pit of my stomach (weird?) and spreading through the rest of my body. Great, natural buzz.
Yea... that's my update for now. I'm sure I'll have a couple stories about my travel from JFK (where I am now) to Kuwait. I have layovers in Paris and Bahrain, landing in Kuwait about 1:30pm on Thursday east coast time (9:30pm in my new time zone). Already have a few from my trip from DC to JFK... so I'm sure there will be more.
Peace, love, & buzzes
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
I'm outta hereeeee
My adventures in the States is coming to end, folks. Yes, yes indeed.
For those of you that I have talked to, even if for a brief moment, know that I'm not the happiest person being back in Virginia. So, taking my own advice, I'm going to become un-unhappy! I started by looking into jobs in Japan and Korea (again). After realizing that working a full-time job and doing an online master's program would probably cause more harm than good, I've decided to move to Kuwait! Yes, my parents are there still. Yes, I'll be living with them. Yes, I'll be [hopefully] tutoring to make some money. Any more questions?
So, there you have it, guys: I'm moving. I'm getting outta here! My adventure in the States end around January 12th! Let the craziness of packing ensue...
For those of you that I have talked to, even if for a brief moment, know that I'm not the happiest person being back in Virginia. So, taking my own advice, I'm going to become un-unhappy! I started by looking into jobs in Japan and Korea (again). After realizing that working a full-time job and doing an online master's program would probably cause more harm than good, I've decided to move to Kuwait! Yes, my parents are there still. Yes, I'll be living with them. Yes, I'll be [hopefully] tutoring to make some money. Any more questions?
So, there you have it, guys: I'm moving. I'm getting outta here! My adventure in the States end around January 12th! Let the craziness of packing ensue...
Monday, October 17, 2011
Random Thought: Clubbing
As I was enjoying a nice leisurely drive today, I did a lot of thinking. Well, not TOO much thinking, but enough to keep me awake on the drive home. Anyways, one thing I thought about and stuck with me until I arrived home was clubbing. You know, going out dancing to a club with really really loud music, flashing lights, creepy guys, and scantily-clad women. I know, I know, not every guy that goes is creepy and not every girl is dressed in the most naughty outfit they dare not show up to their grandparents' house in, but whatever, that's besides the point.
Continuing on... The main thing is that I have only been clubbing, like, twice in America. Two times, both gay bars. It was a lot of fun, don't get me wrong, but I have never been to any other clubs except outside of America. I've been clubbing in England (London, Ambleside), Korea, Thailand, and even Cambodia... Anyways.
It was just a random thought. Nothing exciting, nothing exciting at all. Just something I thought about today and was like, "Hmm. Interesante."
Peace, love, & (yea, I found it!) kimchi!
Continuing on... The main thing is that I have only been clubbing, like, twice in America. Two times, both gay bars. It was a lot of fun, don't get me wrong, but I have never been to any other clubs except outside of America. I've been clubbing in England (London, Ambleside), Korea, Thailand, and even Cambodia... Anyways.
It was just a random thought. Nothing exciting, nothing exciting at all. Just something I thought about today and was like, "Hmm. Interesante."
Peace, love, & (yea, I found it!) kimchi!
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Update and Small Story
- Virginia
- Three jobs
- Two classes starting around my bday
- Fall = awesome
- Football = awesome
I worked at Huntington yesterday for 3.5 hours. For the last two hours I was there, I was one-on-one with a little girl named E (3rd grade). I had heard about her and seen her running around a bunch. All the teachers adored her and she was a cutie! Yesterday I learned she is not only a cutie, but a pistol, too. She was cracking jokes (albeit weird ones...) and having teachers laughing all over the place. It was sorta difficult to get her to focus, but when she did she was on point. Then she went to go get another book to work from. Two minutes later, she comes back and says, "I can't find it." "Okay," I say "Let's go look for it together." So we went out onto the floor and looked for it. Couldn't find it. So we decided to move on to the next book. Couldn't find it. Sooo we decided to move on to the NEXT book. Could not find it. What?! Three books missing?! Impossible! I asked a couple of the other teachers and they tried looking for the three missing books and nada. Then another teacher comes up to me while E is prancing around and tells me that whenever I have E I should get the books myself because the teachers are fairly certain she hides the books. Awesome.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Virginia
Per usual, it's been a month since my last update. I'm not sure why it takes me so long to update this thing. I think it's partly because I'm lazy and partly because I don't feel like anything exciting is happening at the moment. Being back in the States is nice. I have missed it and I've missed my friends and driving and reading magazines in the grocery store line, but it just doesn't seem any fun. I know there are plenty of fun things to do, and once I've got more money in the bank I plan on doing a couple of these things, but until then it'll be as is.
I'm back in Virginia,. It's been awhile and the first two weeks of my being back were pretty tough ones, but I stuck it out and no longer blame the States (sorta) for my frustrations and sad times. Anyways, here are some things I have been doing since I've been back:
Peace & love :)
I'm back in Virginia,. It's been awhile and the first two weeks of my being back were pretty tough ones, but I stuck it out and no longer blame the States (sorta) for my frustrations and sad times. Anyways, here are some things I have been doing since I've been back:
- looking into grad schools so I can travel and teach!
- starting work again!
- peaking into teaching jobs in Japan, and
- mapping out my next trip to SE Asia (I don't know when, but I'm hoping not too far in the future)
Peace & love :)
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Ups and Downs and Round-and-Rounds
My beautiful grandma, grandpa, madre, and I in Monte Carlo*been in San Francisco - exploring most of it on my own
*worked at a school teaching English
*went to Monterey Bay Aquarium
*fell in love with San Francisco & the Castro district
*flew to Alabama to be with family
*had too much down-time a.k.a. thought entirely too much about too many things
Basically, not much has happened this past month since I've been back in the States. The most pivotal experience since I've been back has been the death of my grandma. This was the grandma that I had just seen on the cruise, the happy, healthy, bubbly grandma. The innocent, wholesome, loving grandma. The grandma that wasn't supposed to leave us quite yet. No one expected this at all. She may have been sorta old (but not really), but she certainly wasn't in bad shape at all. It sounds like it was a freak accident of a sort that took her from us; we are still waiting for the autopsy results. Since it happened, last week, I've been in Alabama with my family. It was nice being with everyone, but, unfortunately, it was under tragic conditions. These sort of things make me realize just how important family is, and just how loving our family is. It's really too bad that something like this had to happen in order to jolt me out of my dream and straight into reality, without any kind of preparation, but so it goes... It hasn't been easy, as one can imagine, but we are all doing the best that we can. Days go by slowly filled with the occasional sob or three and more and more laughs by the day.
Since I've been here, with little to do, I've been doing much thinking. It all has to do with what's next for me. As I'm not entirely sure of this, I will not be posting it here, but will update this as soon as I know. So far, Sarah and I will be driving back to Oklahoma on Tuesday where I'll be until the 21st of August, when I will be flying to Virginia. I'm not sure (weird) how long I'll be there, but Sarah and I bought tickets to a Redskins game for the 18th of September, so til then at least.
Peace, love, & sunshine always.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Dancing Around the World
Hey ohhh!
So it's been a whole month since I've updated. The last was about Vietnam while I was in Italy. This one, I'm just gonna skip Italy and the cruise for now and take you on a short (very very short) journey.
Dancing. I love it. I do it everywhere: in cars, in streets, in the classroom, etc. Most of the time I don't even notice what I'm doing, it just comesssss. I, like most people around the world, use it as a form of expression. Now, I'm not talking ballet dancing, I'm talking "be a whack" dancing (at least in my case).
Back to the reason for this post. There have been a couple places in the past 6 years or so that I've had the great opportunity to travel to and, while there, dance! Woo! But not "Sophia dance," culture dance! It's not very many places, but that's okay for now because I plan on adding to this measly number of 4. Here we go.
In 2006, a group of students from RC traveled to England and Scotland to study art from the Romantic period. On one of our first nights on this trip we were in Scotland. I can't remember the name of the town, but it was a small and cozy place that gave me a warm feeling. Our hotel was holding a wedding reception, if I recall correctly, and we were invited to join in on the festivities. So, we saw bagpipers and dancers! AND we were encouraged to join in! So, there, #1: Scottish dancing.
#2. Most of you know that I studied abroad in Thailand. Traditional Thai dancing is sort of like a tourist attraction because of how different it is. It is classic, slow, beautiful, and entrancing. For dinner one night, a couple friends and myself found a popular and sweet dinner location that included entertainment. Part of the entertainment was aerial stuff and Thai dancing! And, once again, the audience was encouraged to participate! Hey ohhh:
#3. In June of this year, I went a cruise with my parents and grandparents around the Mediterranean. It was awesome. I'll write another post on that later. On the cruise they offer different things to keep people busy and stuff. One day, the rents and I were just sitting around with about 2 hours to spare before dinner. I grabbed the calendar of events for the day and started skimming through it and found dance lessons! 5:15pm rolled around and Mommy and I went down and learned how to Cha Cha. I have no pictures of this, but we did it, I promise!
#4. My fourth dance journey around the world also happened during this summer. One of the stops on the cruise included a tiny place in Greece. If any of you have seen any type of movie that includes dancing, you sort of know what we got ourselves into. During our yummy traditional Greek lunch, there were Greek dancers and when everyone was finished they had people join them! We were all standing in a circle and they tried to teach us how to do a dance. It was quite simple, but I'm afraid some people might've had too much ouzo. Oh well. Blogger is being silly about uploading videos and pictures now, so no pictures or videos for now. Hmp.
So that's that! My teeny tiny adventures of dancing around the world! I hope to include more destinations and dances soon!
Peace & love
So it's been a whole month since I've updated. The last was about Vietnam while I was in Italy. This one, I'm just gonna skip Italy and the cruise for now and take you on a short (very very short) journey.
Dancing. I love it. I do it everywhere: in cars, in streets, in the classroom, etc. Most of the time I don't even notice what I'm doing, it just comesssss. I, like most people around the world, use it as a form of expression. Now, I'm not talking ballet dancing, I'm talking "be a whack" dancing (at least in my case).
Back to the reason for this post. There have been a couple places in the past 6 years or so that I've had the great opportunity to travel to and, while there, dance! Woo! But not "Sophia dance," culture dance! It's not very many places, but that's okay for now because I plan on adding to this measly number of 4. Here we go.
In 2006, a group of students from RC traveled to England and Scotland to study art from the Romantic period. On one of our first nights on this trip we were in Scotland. I can't remember the name of the town, but it was a small and cozy place that gave me a warm feeling. Our hotel was holding a wedding reception, if I recall correctly, and we were invited to join in on the festivities. So, we saw bagpipers and dancers! AND we were encouraged to join in! So, there, #1: Scottish dancing.
#2. Most of you know that I studied abroad in Thailand. Traditional Thai dancing is sort of like a tourist attraction because of how different it is. It is classic, slow, beautiful, and entrancing. For dinner one night, a couple friends and myself found a popular and sweet dinner location that included entertainment. Part of the entertainment was aerial stuff and Thai dancing! And, once again, the audience was encouraged to participate! Hey ohhh:
#3. In June of this year, I went a cruise with my parents and grandparents around the Mediterranean. It was awesome. I'll write another post on that later. On the cruise they offer different things to keep people busy and stuff. One day, the rents and I were just sitting around with about 2 hours to spare before dinner. I grabbed the calendar of events for the day and started skimming through it and found dance lessons! 5:15pm rolled around and Mommy and I went down and learned how to Cha Cha. I have no pictures of this, but we did it, I promise!#4. My fourth dance journey around the world also happened during this summer. One of the stops on the cruise included a tiny place in Greece. If any of you have seen any type of movie that includes dancing, you sort of know what we got ourselves into. During our yummy traditional Greek lunch, there were Greek dancers and when everyone was finished they had people join them! We were all standing in a circle and they tried to teach us how to do a dance. It was quite simple, but I'm afraid some people might've had too much ouzo. Oh well. Blogger is being silly about uploading videos and pictures now, so no pictures or videos for now. Hmp.
So that's that! My teeny tiny adventures of dancing around the world! I hope to include more destinations and dances soon!
Peace & love
Friday, June 17, 2011
Ha Long Bay
I was in northern Vietnam so, duh, of course I had to go to Ha Long Bay! They are currently trying to make it one of the Wonders of the World. It totally should be! I, personally, don't understand why there should only be seven. Rude.
Anyways, Cinthia and I decided that doing a three day/two night tour would be better than a two day/one night tour. We signed up for the Asia Cruise via our amazeballs hostel, Hanoi Hostel. We were picked up for our tour on Saturday morning and we went around Hanoi picking up the others that joined this tour. I was super nervous at first because of the endless number of couples that kept coming onto the bus. By the time we started on the road towards the Bay, there was Cinthia, Chris (Australia), three English girls, Jack (England), and I - as the only "singles." So that left five couples with us for a total of 17 people. Our tour guide informed us that, because so many of us signed up for this cruise, they were going to have to break us apart. Oh man, this was when I was pleading (in my mind, of course) that I wasn't going to be stuck with a bunch of couples.
The trip to the Bay took about 4 hours with a 20 minute stop in between. We got to the dock and they divided us up and, thankfully, I wasn't stuck with JUST couples. On our boat it ended up being Cinthia, Chris, and myself with three couples (Tim and Emilia, Mark and Ines, Paul and Debi) who ended up being BY FAR the COOLEST couples anyone could ever get stuck with! Tim and Emi live in England, but Emi is from Spain. Mark and Ines are both from Spain; Mark couldn't speak any English, so Ines did a lot of translating, but I got to practice my Spanish! And Paul and Debi are from England. I spent most of my time with Paul and Debi. They are so sweet and awesome. I had a blasty blast with them!
[official] Day One: we got onto the boat and had lunch, yum! And then we went and visited this huge cave... I forget the name of it in Vietnamese, but I think it translated to "Amazing" in English. It was pretty cool. I mean, I've been to caves before, so it wasn't really anything special, but it was neat I guess. After the "Amazing" cave we went to the floating villages and got to kayak around for 30 minutes! Not nearly enough time, but I love kayaking, so it was a ball! When we finished up kayaking, we got back onto our baller boat and got to go swimming in the Bay! Oh man, was that cool!? The water was a green color and such a lovely warm temperature: not too hot, but not too cold... Goldilocks would've loved it. We were allowed to jump off the boat, too! All of the guys and Ines were jumping off the third story! I wanted to, but it was really high! So I started at the bottom and worked my way up... to the second floor. When I jumped off the second floor, it felt like I was falling through the air for eternity (echo: eternity eternityy eeeternittyyyyyy), but it was fun. It was nice being able to swim around after sweating so much. The water was super salty and bit gasoline-y, too. That wasn't really nice, but whatevs. When everyone had finished swimming around, we all got back onto the boat and went and met up with the other boat that the other half of our tour people were on. They anchored our boat RIGHT next to the other boat (RIGHT next to it being that we could literally step right onto the other boat easy!). We ate dinner and then sat around under the stars. It was glorious.
Day Two: woke up at 8 am and had breakfast. After breakfast, we got onto our tiny boat with all of our stuff and said good-bye to our baller boat: we were heading to Cat Ba Island. On Cat Ba, we had the choice of either going hiking up a mountain or going biking. I really wanted to go biking, but NO ONE else wanted to go biking, so all 17 of us ended up going hiking. The lady who took us up the mountain said it was a 2 hour hike total, so I thought it was gonna be easy. It wasn't really that easy, but it wasn't, like, super difficult. What made it super difficult was the HEAT. Oh man. I stepped out and every part of my body was soaked in sweat. Lovely. The most difficult part of the hike up was these metal ladder/step things they had on the mountain. They were rusty and had sharp edges, which I promptly cut myself on (excellent) and they were slippery from all the mud that was caked on them, which I promptly slipped on and had a huge knot on my leg from (super!). At the end of the hike up we were literally rock climbing! I have wanted to rock climb, but not in this extreme heat, but hey, whatevs! At the top, it was a pretty view. Just mountains and mountains that looked like it went on forever and ever. Then started the climb down. Not as bad, thank goodness. We also went a different way to avoid the metal ladder/step things. Instead, I basically sat on my butt and slide down a bunch of rocks. I slipped a couple times (weird), but it was nice cos I was in the front and far enough ahead of people that I didn't get laughed at too much :).
We loaded back into the van and drove to a different side of Cat Ba Island where we caught a ferry to Monkey Island for the night. It was about 1ish when we arrived, and we ate lunch and then we had free time to swim in the ocean! HOLLA! That was awesome. I really enjoyed that. The water was so perfect again! That afternoon, we all just hung out. Some people walked to the other side of the island to see the monkeys, but after my last experience with monkeys in Lop Buri, Thailand, I decided I didn't really want to see any monkeys and I was perfectly okay with that. We had a lovely bbq meal that was provided, once again, by our resort. That night, we just hung out and played Uno with a couple people (English couple, Spanish couple, Swedish couple and me). It was funfunfun!! I forgot how much I liked Uno! Went back to Cinthia and my bungalow and fell fast asleep.
Day Three: This day was just traveling back to Hanoi, basically. From Monkey Island, ferried to Cat Ba, drove to the other side of Cat Ba, ferried to our big boat in the bay, boated back to port, ate lunch and hung out til we disembarked and got onto our van to head back to Hanoi.
I had a great time in Ha Long Bay. I am SO happy that I decided to do the three day one instead of the two day one. I feel like I would've felt rushed doing the two day tour, plus we got to see more on the three day one, baller! I met so many lovely people, as usual. I feel lucky.
Peace, love, & granita!
Anyways, Cinthia and I decided that doing a three day/two night tour would be better than a two day/one night tour. We signed up for the Asia Cruise via our amazeballs hostel, Hanoi Hostel. We were picked up for our tour on Saturday morning and we went around Hanoi picking up the others that joined this tour. I was super nervous at first because of the endless number of couples that kept coming onto the bus. By the time we started on the road towards the Bay, there was Cinthia, Chris (Australia), three English girls, Jack (England), and I - as the only "singles." So that left five couples with us for a total of 17 people. Our tour guide informed us that, because so many of us signed up for this cruise, they were going to have to break us apart. Oh man, this was when I was pleading (in my mind, of course) that I wasn't going to be stuck with a bunch of couples.
The trip to the Bay took about 4 hours with a 20 minute stop in between. We got to the dock and they divided us up and, thankfully, I wasn't stuck with JUST couples. On our boat it ended up being Cinthia, Chris, and myself with three couples (Tim and Emilia, Mark and Ines, Paul and Debi) who ended up being BY FAR the COOLEST couples anyone could ever get stuck with! Tim and Emi live in England, but Emi is from Spain. Mark and Ines are both from Spain; Mark couldn't speak any English, so Ines did a lot of translating, but I got to practice my Spanish! And Paul and Debi are from England. I spent most of my time with Paul and Debi. They are so sweet and awesome. I had a blasty blast with them!
[official] Day One: we got onto the boat and had lunch, yum! And then we went and visited this huge cave... I forget the name of it in Vietnamese, but I think it translated to "Amazing" in English. It was pretty cool. I mean, I've been to caves before, so it wasn't really anything special, but it was neat I guess. After the "Amazing" cave we went to the floating villages and got to kayak around for 30 minutes! Not nearly enough time, but I love kayaking, so it was a ball! When we finished up kayaking, we got back onto our baller boat and got to go swimming in the Bay! Oh man, was that cool!? The water was a green color and such a lovely warm temperature: not too hot, but not too cold... Goldilocks would've loved it. We were allowed to jump off the boat, too! All of the guys and Ines were jumping off the third story! I wanted to, but it was really high! So I started at the bottom and worked my way up... to the second floor. When I jumped off the second floor, it felt like I was falling through the air for eternity (echo: eternity eternityy eeeternittyyyyyy), but it was fun. It was nice being able to swim around after sweating so much. The water was super salty and bit gasoline-y, too. That wasn't really nice, but whatevs. When everyone had finished swimming around, we all got back onto the boat and went and met up with the other boat that the other half of our tour people were on. They anchored our boat RIGHT next to the other boat (RIGHT next to it being that we could literally step right onto the other boat easy!). We ate dinner and then sat around under the stars. It was glorious.
Day Two: woke up at 8 am and had breakfast. After breakfast, we got onto our tiny boat with all of our stuff and said good-bye to our baller boat: we were heading to Cat Ba Island. On Cat Ba, we had the choice of either going hiking up a mountain or going biking. I really wanted to go biking, but NO ONE else wanted to go biking, so all 17 of us ended up going hiking. The lady who took us up the mountain said it was a 2 hour hike total, so I thought it was gonna be easy. It wasn't really that easy, but it wasn't, like, super difficult. What made it super difficult was the HEAT. Oh man. I stepped out and every part of my body was soaked in sweat. Lovely. The most difficult part of the hike up was these metal ladder/step things they had on the mountain. They were rusty and had sharp edges, which I promptly cut myself on (excellent) and they were slippery from all the mud that was caked on them, which I promptly slipped on and had a huge knot on my leg from (super!). At the end of the hike up we were literally rock climbing! I have wanted to rock climb, but not in this extreme heat, but hey, whatevs! At the top, it was a pretty view. Just mountains and mountains that looked like it went on forever and ever. Then started the climb down. Not as bad, thank goodness. We also went a different way to avoid the metal ladder/step things. Instead, I basically sat on my butt and slide down a bunch of rocks. I slipped a couple times (weird), but it was nice cos I was in the front and far enough ahead of people that I didn't get laughed at too much :).
We loaded back into the van and drove to a different side of Cat Ba Island where we caught a ferry to Monkey Island for the night. It was about 1ish when we arrived, and we ate lunch and then we had free time to swim in the ocean! HOLLA! That was awesome. I really enjoyed that. The water was so perfect again! That afternoon, we all just hung out. Some people walked to the other side of the island to see the monkeys, but after my last experience with monkeys in Lop Buri, Thailand, I decided I didn't really want to see any monkeys and I was perfectly okay with that. We had a lovely bbq meal that was provided, once again, by our resort. That night, we just hung out and played Uno with a couple people (English couple, Spanish couple, Swedish couple and me). It was funfunfun!! I forgot how much I liked Uno! Went back to Cinthia and my bungalow and fell fast asleep.
Day Three: This day was just traveling back to Hanoi, basically. From Monkey Island, ferried to Cat Ba, drove to the other side of Cat Ba, ferried to our big boat in the bay, boated back to port, ate lunch and hung out til we disembarked and got onto our van to head back to Hanoi.
I had a great time in Ha Long Bay. I am SO happy that I decided to do the three day one instead of the two day one. I feel like I would've felt rushed doing the two day tour, plus we got to see more on the three day one, baller! I met so many lovely people, as usual. I feel lucky.
Peace, love, & granita!
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