Nha Trang, Vietnam

I have arrived. The city is gorgeous. The beach lines the entire area. There are bars and restaurants to cater to anything you are in the mood for. I got a little motor bike tour. It seems to be very easily navigable, even without any type of bike.

I am staying in a hotel. I have a two bed hotel room to myself.

There are 5 other volunteers here, two of them are leaving. It seems like a very different atmosphere from Nongkhai, and I am constantly starting sentences with, "well in Nongkhai..." I should probably stop that soon.

I really miss Nongkhai already! I'm getting very anxious that I had so much fun there, that I won't be able to enjoy Nha Trang as much. Sorta like what happened in Australia. I had so much fun in Disney that I had such high epectations for Australia, that it did not even remotely measure up. The volunteers seem all disconnected and I feel like I am going to be very lonely here most of the time. We'll see though, I haven't met everyone yet. Even Kimmy the coordinator said the volunteers on a whole are pretty boring. I want Surreal and Barnana back!!!

I had a great last few days in Nongkhai. Wednesday night we went to the famous Mut Mee's Guesthouse, the only real backpacker location in Nongkhai. The food was ridiculously overpriced(good thing Jennie paid for me) but the ambiance was amazing. We then went to Surreal, where I played pool and didn't too bad. I got the best shot ever in, where it took four balls to sink one in. I even won a baht against Sam(although I also lost 5 Baht, because we decided to "make the game interesting). We wound up being out until 1am ish.

They all made such a big deal about my last night and let me pick where to go and what to do and I felt that out of all the things I could do, I just wanted to be with them, so we went to Jessica(the coordinator's) boyfriends mexican restaurant and then Surreal-ed it. The new girls + eddie had all left earlier that day, so it was just the core we began with there, plus all the office people. It's amazing in such a short time how close I got to all of them!!! I played some pool and the girls had me sign their books(sorta like a yearbook). That took most of the night. Then the girls headed to bed and tearfully(ok, exaturation) said goodbye. It hadn't quite set in yet that I wouldn't see them again soon. Sam and Anke stayed up with me and we headed back around 2am. Sam decided he would get up at 730am so he could say goodbye to me, and I thought that was really sweet, especially since he is not a morning person. I really appreciated that. If him, Anke and Anne Ruth weren't leaving with me, I would have really considered staying in Thaialdn instead of heading off to Vietnam. I miss them soo much. Thank you guys for such a great experience!!!!

Ok enough sap. I have to do a few more things on the computer and then I think I am going to try to befriend some people. Thought that might be a good idea, since I am here for 3 weeks.