back to real life?

I got home from vacation last night!! It was the best couple of days I ever remember having. After planes, trains, buses, taxis, and many, many motorbikes, I visited Hanoi & Sapa, as well as spending time with a few of the other people with Teachers for Vietnam, and meeting some great foreigners who were just passing through. It was a completely different world. I said multiple times that I didn't even feel like I was in Vietnam. I feel like Can Tho was Vietnam, the rest is a tourist trap. I was slightly turned off by all of the locals who were speaking to me in English. Isn't that ridiculous? I was mad because I wanted to order my food in Vietnamese and they didn't even try to understand me and just kept speaking English. Regardless, I had the best vacation ever and have been contemplating a way to get back there for some work. I love Can Tho, and it felt great to come home, but my head is going crazy with all of the different possibilities there are for me. Every time I experience something I think, 'Wow it doesn't get better then this.' And then it does.

Anyway, now I'm back to real life and I'm completely overwhelmed with the amount of this I have to catch up on. I guess thats normal after any vacation. It's also so hot, and I've been spoiled by the slightly cooler weather in the North. Does everyone feel like they need a vacation after vacation? Also, I have no money because I think I forgot my pin # and apparently bank of america does not like my dad and is not willing to help out.

I will write a detailed account of my trip, it really was the most amazing thing I've experienced in a while and now I have the travel bug, which is making it hard to focus on my classes. I'm going to take a few days to pull myself together and then I'll tell you all about it. I also took about 500 pictures!

On a positive note, my pictures randomly decided to upload, so you can look at the link on the left. Its everything up until Vacation. I'll let you know when I've put those up!

Here is an article the director of TfV sent me about the motorbikes here. It's very funny, and completely true.
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2008/10/01/vietnam-eats-sleeps-and-dreams-on-motorbikes/

Also found this video, and I think it's really clever. Not to mention that they are all some of my favorite famous people and they all look exceptionally good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olpCyDA4kYA

And for laughs, take a loot at this. Gotta love her.
http://thegreatschlep.com/site/index.html