This morning's Vietnamese class gave us a few more simple sentences whose pronunciations were far too complicated to make the sounds. I can now hold a basic conversation with someone if they speak very slowly and follow the script laid out in the book. Any deviation from that script will leave me completely in the dark.
I took a long nap right after class. I've been napping a lot recently. Almost every day, but certainly every other day. This could be diet related or because I have a cold. Either way, it's been a little annoying. I'm going to have to work on staying awake while doing stuff.
This evening, we went to a different street than we normally do in search of pancakes made of rice flour filled with bean sprouts and mini shrimp. Maeve, Allison and I had this same dish when we were in Hoi An. You take some greens and a section of the pancake and wrap it in rice paper and dip it in a sweet broth. It is so delicious! I will definitely be going back there for dinner from time to time. I'll try to take pictures the next time we go so that I can show you what I'm talking about.
After dinner, a handful of us went to check out a cafe called Cat Cafe. There were a lot of cats in there. People were sitting around drinking coffee and whatnot while petting cats. Unfortunately, the Cat Cafe was too full of people, so we went to another cafe on West Lake, which we followed with a walk around a corner of West Lake enjoying a wonderful breeze coming off the water. That was when the best thing happened to me: I saw a bunch of people playing soccer. I have been really craving some soccer recently, and Kim was able to ask if we were allowed to join them and when they play. They play everyday at seven. I hope that there will be some serious soccer times soon.
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