2014, January

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2019-03-31 09:03

Thu Duc Kids English Class. Leaf Pagoda English. Visited Long Khánh, Dong Nai. FYG English. Continued teaching English at all of these places and then some.

Chronology of My Life in Vietnam

Yearly - 2012 - 2013 - 2014 - 2015 - 2016 - 2017 - Monthly - 2012 - 11 - 12 - 2013 - 01 - 02 - 03 - 04 - 05 - 06 - 07 - 08 - 09 - 10 - 11 - 12
_{_{American English Teacher - 5 years - 2012-2017}}

_{2014-01-08 - Wednesday - Thu Duc Kids FAV}

Joey Tie

2014-01-01 - Wednesday - 10:28 AM PST - Kenny Kien Arshavin Duong - Comment: "Lunch right now, so plz close your lips... Can u close your face!! Plz close your lips!! Higher Ugly... Handsome > cool > ugly >...> special ugly = you.... This way now!'n... Plz, some time you upload your face on your FB, plz you close your lip!.... Dont let everyone see your teeth !! (Y)... So now,u come here!! 10k a cup :):)." I responded: "Nooooooo." He may have ben a student of mine - Facebook Photo Album - Photos of me at our Fellowship Youth Group (FYG) classroom in Q.1. Also, other places. I took pictures of Lush, a dog, at a cafe with a flower in Thu Duc, some Kindergartens, etc.

English Rain

2014-01-03 - Friday - 10:34 PM - Facebook Photo Album - Pictures of me and my students at that high school, English Rain, the Leaf Pagoda, and FYG. 12:46 PM ICT: I tell people I was in the Binh Thanh District. They say, "Oh yeah, the Ben Thanh Market in District 1. I was chatting with Erick Doan on Another side of Vietnam (ASOV). I say to them, you know, when you go on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai and over a bridge, where does it take you? This happens with most of the districts. In the USA, different people tend to say things differently. For example, people in my state, Oregon, say "Ore-GUN" while others say "Ore-GONE." But in Vietnam, if you say something even slightly different, than others tend to be clueless to what you are saying and they seem to have no ability to guess. I am the kind of person, like Sherlock Holmes, that likes to guess if I can. If you say something wrong, I will still try to figure it out. The truth is out there says the X Files.

Leaf Pagoda

2014-01-05 - Sunday - 09:07 AM - Leaf Pagoda Students. Some of them were probably not my students. I taught on Saturdays and Sundays, generally, from October 2013 until February 2014, roughly. I volunteered until they paid me in December 2013. Well, I thought I was paid because some of them said I was paid while others said it was a one time thing as my bike was stolen that month. They invited me to eat and sleep there. So, I took them up on their offer. So, I was staying in that on that balcony near the stairs. I took photos of some of them as they left their classes. After that, I biked over to teach in District 1 with FYG or other places.

English Teacher Photo

2014-01-07 - Tuesday - A picture of me that says English Teacher in English and in Vietnamese.

Thu Duc Kids Wednesday

2014-01-08 - Wednesday - 08:43 AM - Thu Duc Kids FAV - FYG English. Sereal Energy breakfast meal drink packs, just add hot water. Kids studied Flyers. FYG Q.11 Wednesday Night House Church. Googled packing backing. Pictures of our snacks at FYG or maybe the house church.

Thu Duc Kids Thursday

2014-01-09 - Thursday - 05:12 PM - Photos of me and my students. Also, ran into my August 2013 Tan Binh Roomie, I think. I drank some Mr. Brown Iced Coffee. Was learning Vietnamese. Somebody drew Chinese Joey. Wrote the word psychology on the whiteboard to explain which sounds the letter Y may make in certain words.

29 Years of Oatmeal

2014-01-09 - Thursday - YouTube Video - 29 Years of Doctor Oatmeal - 20:21 minutes

Lotteria Meetup

2014-01-10 - Friday - Met with my Tan Binh August 2013 Roomie and his female friend at Lotteria. I think she bought me a bunch of ice-cream cones, again and again, unless if I'm thinking of another time. I didn't look so good in some of my photos. Maybe, I was still recovering from my Jungle Fever which derailed me to five days in the hospital around August 2013. Also, I was tired, hungry, busy, sleepy, scared, confused, hurt, abused, struggling, in life, in many regards to many things. So, it was tougher but things continued to improve, long story short.

Leaf Pagoda Girl

2014-01-11 - Saturday - Leaf Pagoda Girl

Leaf Pagoda Sunday

2014-01-12 - Sunday - The Rock Nguyen and other students. My bed. My broken laptop screen.

Doremon

2014-01-13 - Monday - Took a photo with two random men that invited me to drink some tea or maybe beer. I don't remember which. It was sometimes beer and sometimes tea when people would stop me as they wanted a chance to talk to a foreigner and it happened many times during my five years in Vietnam. It was fun. It was a bit strange in some ways as I was a stranger to them and yet like a best friend in some ways.

Saigoniz Cousine Kids

2014-01-14 - Tuesday - 09:21 AM - Saigoniz Cousine Cafe - two boys would practice English with me here. We would watch YouTube video, play Internet video games, and talk random topics. At least one of them would learn at an English Center like VUS. Other people learned English from me here at times.

English Teacher Photo

2014-01-15 - Wednesday - 08:18 AM - I posted this photo ad of myself: on the picture, it describes who I am, what I do, my name, what I believed in, my philosophy, as a Saigon American English Teacher, an Original Oatmeal. Top Ten Sesame Street Puppets. - 08:40 AM - Photos of my Face

Thu Duc Kids Thursday

2014-01-16 - Thursday - My students. My face. Lesson plan. What do you do on your birthday? Kids are laughing. Drawing pictionary guessing game. Ngốc Xít and Thanh Nhu Nguyen liked this.

Joey Girls

2014-01-20 - Monday - 05:20 AM - Class notes: salmon; have you seen my toothbrush? Gut feeling and guts. Commercial and consumerism. Babies come from storks, birds. Pictures of me with girls and guys at the 23/9 Park. Mish Eurika liked this.

2008 Diary

2014-01-21 - Tuesday - Photo scans of my 2008 diary from February to July. Things related to Revolution Hawaii, dating, life, goals, dreams, Camp Kuratli, etc.

Top Ten Things About Vietnam

2014-01-26- Sunday - YouTube Video - 30:40 Minutes - FYG Q.1 HCM

Think Positively

2014-01-27 - Monday - 08:03 PM ICT: Toby Bui Thanh Trung - Facebook Message: "I'm so interested in the way you think, Only as much as you think positively can you be more likely successful."

Tet Holiday

2014-01-30 - Thursday - 2014-02-02 - Sunday - Cathy Pink Nguyễn Thị Minh Thái liked this. Rick Arnold: 11:38 AM: "Yeah Greg Oden can still be good, I just was surprised at the similarities, about picking big men that didn't do much, and missing two of probably the top ten to ever play the game. Okay, Shawn, who do you think will win the Superbowl, based on the info you have?" Dung Nguyen asked if I liked it there in the place I was visiting outside of Saigon for Tet, the hometown of Toby Bui Thanh Trung, Long Khánh, Dong Nai.

GiáoViên NguyênHiểu

2014-01-31 - Friday - My Vietnamese English Facebook Profile Account featured my Vietnamese name. I probably had this account for a few months in 2014 until Facebook terminated it, I'm guessing.

_{2014-01-11 - Saturday - Leaf Pagoda Guys}