Several Days

So for several days, the Monsoon has been letting us know what the wet season consists of. In fact, I was on my way out the door from work not 5 minutes ago, when it started to downpour. Thus I am still at work writing this blog. This rain comes on top of the rain from last night, yesterday afternoon, yesterday morning, all day monday, had a break on sunday, rain several times on Saturday and a bunch on Friday too. Hmmm.. Wasn't expecting that much rain really. It has made the temperatures quite nice, almost cool. In fact I think it's the coolest it's been since I've been in Vietnam. But the fact that you never know if you should go outside becasue it could become a torrent of rain in a matter of seconds is a little annoying.
Now for a little insight into Vung Tau. i thought I'd just give you guys a little hint at what our life consists of, i.e. places we frequent. First of all there is Tommy's. I say first of all becasue it was the first place Adam and I went to with Rudi for lunch the day we arrived, and is a staple for almost every teacher. A wonderful western style restaurant with good food and friednly staff. Then there is Alibaba's, the indian restaurant we frequent. there are a couple more restaurants, but those are the two most important. Then there is Giao's (or Rosa Bar) where they serve cheap delicious food, and Giao has declared herself our sister. She teaches us vietnamese, makes us eat and drink, and watches out for our well-being. Then there's the rice stand that we go to for dinner often, which has a sinh to (fruit juice) stand across the way. Great food. There is also a Bo Kho stand up the road that serves great 'beef stew'. These places are run by vietnamese speaking people, and are quite friendly to us because of our repeat service.
then there is beach club. The wonderful beach bar with surfboards. The surf part run by Dennis, a russian fellow, and the bar being tended by Dieu during the day time, a 21 year old girl from Hue in central veitnam, and the night shift being staffed by Jimmy and Nhu. Jimmy is a dude who can get you whatever you want (i.e. motorbikes, phones) and Nhu being pretty new and I don't know mucha bout her.
Beyond that our selection is varied and random. There are lots of small random places we go to the they remember us at, but where we don't frequent all too often. k
Anyway. lots of variety. Don't know why I wrote that, but I did. enjoy.
I'm going home and will get wet.
Brandonl.