Halloween

Last night, Sunday, was my language center's annual Halloween Party. Again, I emceed the event, and my costume this year was a big hit. I made four children and one adult cry! Success!!

What's this thing?

Here in Vietnam, households don't have ovens. Bakeries have ovens, only expensive and posh restaurants have ovens, but your typical Vietnamese household doesn't have an oven. It's just not customary in this culture to bake. So I was over the moon when my friend, Michelle, invited me over to her house to bake brownies and chocolate cake. However, her circa 1965 oven didn't even work. Sad times all around.

Busy Busy

My new full-time job at Asia Pacific College has been keeping me super busy. I'm teaching there in the mornings and afternoons and in the evenings at my language center. As part of my job at APC, I travel to the town of Thu Dau Mot in Binh Duong Province once a week to teach at a posh preschool all day, Bambi Kindergarten. P.S. It's more of a preschool than a kindergarten.

A couple of neat things to note: The layout of the school is like Anytown, USA Main Street, with the "open shops" being the classrooms.

Another cool thing is that I have my own private room and bathroom in a villa at the school where I can connect to wifi or take a seriously long nap since I have a 3 1/2 hour lunch break. I'll post photos of the room next time. For today, I took some photos of the school grounds.

Cool Visitor App

Now, I can see who's stalking.. I mean.. visiting my blog every day. I thought it was cool that someone from Palestine visited my little page. Wow!