Vietnam : SEP Project.
10:19 PM
I've been here for a few days now, but man.. it does feel kinda long when I have quite a lot of free time especially at night. So, I've figured out a few things on my own.. I've taken the bus alone, crossed the crazy roads alone, and yeah I think I'm pretty comfortable to stay at home alone at night. But I'm also getting a little bored here because I can't really go out at night alone, I'm worried that I might get lost. @@ I hope that things are going to start to pick up, cuz we're getting to know the interns more now, and I've started to stereotype them? HOHO, that's bad. Of course, I'll always keep in mind never to generalize these people.
Today was the first day of our Sexual Education workshop, and I can only describe it in a word; WOW. The school is pretty far away, almost an hour from where I stay, and I have to take the bus there but it was a good experience because it was a different part of the city; District 9. I stay in District 10. We had two classes today, and the first class was.. epicly horrible. It was the class with one of the naughtiest kids, and the social stigma here about sexual education is much more conservative than Malaysia I think. It is really prevalent in the Asian culture to be conservative about these things, but.. they were all like nononono! Or closing their eyes when we showed them illustrations? The main problem with the kids were that they do not understand us, so it was really hard for us to communicate with them. I think I handled it pretty well, I tried to grab their attention like how I do it with the kids I used to teach, but some of my team members just.. gave up. The whole situation was really tense. Imagine trying to attract the attention of a whole bunch of teenagers with raging hormones. It just.. really doesn't work that way. It was tiring, but now I know the reality of the teenagers here in Vietnam.
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