- push snooze
- push snooze again
- watch 10 min of CNN
- be greeted by my host family with big smiles as they have already woken up hours ago and are fully awake
- have the younger "niece" run up to me and say "auntie chi!!!" then hold my hand and smile at me. (if your heart doesn't melt you are a horrible person)
- eat freshly made breakfast made from my host mom or regular street food ladies
- take my bike and say bye to my family and roomie and hello to the street food ladies I know outside my house
- get to work and get laughed at by the resident xe om (motorcycle taxi) driver who can never get enough of watching my crazy biking turns through Vietnam traffic and yelling "be careful!" at me though he knows it is useless advice. Luckily...this laughter has now made us friends.
- say hello to the hospital security guards I have made friends with. BIG DEAL is that they are in charge of telling you where to park and they have let me become the only bicycle (aka non motorbike) to park in the coveted roof covered parking area. Hahaha, this spot is better than where my boss parks! Making friends is awesome.
- get to work and work tons nowadays
- eat giant lunches
- go home and run around the beautiful lenin park
- biked for 30min without getting lost
- ate gourmet 3 course home cooked foods, wine, imported beer, cheese brought from Tanzania and Slovakia with new friends
- played monopoly deal...enough said about that. :P
- biked home in the beautiful Hanoi night streets without traffic and beat curfew by 3 minutes!
Thank you tonight for that reminder.
