10 Things You Notice about Vietnam
I will list the 10 very first things that you notice when you come to Vietnam for the first time. May be the old expats will remember how it was when they settled in Vietnam the first year… It’s hard to reckon the time when we arrived here, usually foreigners that are in Vietnam forgets that period very fast… They don’t want to remember it… Or just the good sides of it… well…
1. The Motorbikes!
2. The Huge Amount of People in the Streets!
3. The Smiles! Whether you like it or not, they always smile to you… It can be boring… It’s no real smile anyway so no need to bother.
5. The Houses are all the same, 3 meters large / 9 meters high.
6. The people behave all the same, just like they got raped when they were 6 years old and now they are afraid of doing things out of the box.
7. The sound of the horns that never stops
8. Who work here? It will appear to you that nobody work! They all stay on the sidewalk enjoying their coffee or Tra Da (Vietnamese Ice Tea)
9. The Pollution, if you don’t wear glasses when you drive your motorbike (or a guy drive for you, we call it Xe Um) you will receive pollution balls that will hurt and irritate your eyes.
10. Even there is all that madness… There is that ‘Calm’ that exist nowhere else. In Vietnam people tends to make you angry cause that is their sport… But when you know how to play that sport then it becomes very calm and peaceful… Obviously to play that sport you have to become evil and ignore people… But you don’t have to do it all the time!
June 28th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
I’ll agree with you but with one exception that you will find in todays post of my blog which will be published in ten minutes. The humidity. I don’t think much has changed since 1965