So, seeing that I'm not gonna be writing any handwritten journals, I think I'll be posting about my journey in Vietnam here. To remember what I'm going through in my AIESEC exchange. =) I've never been overseas alone before, and this experience is really like no other. Coming to a foreign country with no mummy and daddy to tag along, it's really pretty damn scary. Plus, I'm handicapped because of the language. Everybody speaks Vietnamese here and I just feel @.@ *.* ?.? lol. But okay, there are actually people taking care of me. My EP Buddy and my host family. =)

It has only been less than 24 hours since I've landed in Vietnam and boy, there is so much difference I can see. At certain points, the climate, the environment, it's sort of the same, but different as well. I can't really explain it, but yeah. Everything is a little bit more run-down here if compared to Penang. The temperature is slightly hotter than Penang, but for my first day here, it's bearable. But I've heard that it goes up to 41 degrees?! Damn, I'm gonna burn at that temperature. The first thing I noticed from my plane is that the houses here are really colourful. A splash of any color you could imagine, you can see it from the skies above. It is so unlike Malaysia, which is just a dull hue of colours; grey, black, brown. Getting into the cab with my EP Buddy, Sofia, I was presented with a myriad of tones that I have never heard of before. Vietnamese is so different than any other language I have heard before. There are no strong syllables, and I don't know, seriously, everything sounds like ngeeeiiahhhhhh or something. There's actually 6 accents in Vietnamese, which is 2 more accents than Mandarin, but my host said that grammar is really easy to learn in Vietnamese.

Last night, my host, Thuy, brought me out on her bike. Wao, it was such an experience because the roads are really really busy. If I hadn't ridden a bike before, I think I'd be scared to death. I did ride bikes before, but it was still a really scary experience because the roads are really narrow and some of it bumpy, and everybody's riding a bike. That makes everything a lot more scary. XD It was really fun for me to be on the bike for my first night here. The night breeze felt cold against my skin, though I was worried how polluted the roads are with the amount of motorcycles on the streets. At roundabouts, everybody goes about their own business and it felt like there are no specific rules to be on the streets. Yet, my friend was stopped by the police because she did not switch on her signal lights when turning. Anyhow , my first meal there was Korean food and it was with Thuy, Jino, and Ngeh. Very peculiar first meal but my host was craving for Korean food, so we went to Kimchi Kimchi to makan! It was decent, nothing particular about it. I'm looking forward to more awesome meals here that are actually Vietnamese food! :D

Oh right, the bed, I couldn't sleep last night because the mattress is really thin, so we are actually sleeping on some sort like a tatami? And my pillow is really thin too, and I just keep waking up in the middle of the night because it was really uncomfortable. @@ Damn, I miss my soft and comfy bed back at home. But I'm hoping I'd get used to this soon, else, I won't be able to survive without sleep for so long. =/ Anyway, this post is really messy and I haven't had time to organize all this, I should really be preparing to go for orientation later, but here I am, typing away. Hopefully there are more updates from me soon! =)