Saturday night was an unofficial farewell to Tyler. Tyler is a volunteer from America who has been teaching English with the English department of AGU for the last two years. He will return to Vietnam in three months to take up another position in Hue.
As we started to head out is started to rain, and I felt as if Long Xuyen was crying for Tyler’s departure. When we arrived at the restaurant it was quite busy. I guess everybody got trapped at the restaurant and didn’t want to leave. We found a table and settled down as more people arrived for the party. As of yet I was surprised to find that there were no Vietnamese teachers at our party.
Tyler was the master of the table which means he allocates the drinking order for the table and orders the food. He decided on some food and drink and we started the party without the Vietnamese teachers. I was a little cool from the rain and it was nice to have the banana rice wine to warm me up from the inside out. Combined with goat curry and a crowded restaurant it was not long until I started to feel toasty.
The first Vietnamese teacher to arrive was Tyler’s Vietnamese teacher. He told me before that he used to live in or near Richmond in Melbourne, and I was impressed with his English. Next was Lam from International Relations and he has a reputation for enjoying the rice wine. The last to come were Hanh and Ngo. I think they were scared of the rain.
As we started to head out is started to rain, and I felt as if Long Xuyen was crying for Tyler’s departure. When we arrived at the restaurant it was quite busy. I guess everybody got trapped at the restaurant and didn’t want to leave. We found a table and settled down as more people arrived for the party. As of yet I was surprised to find that there were no Vietnamese teachers at our party.
Tyler was the master of the table which means he allocates the drinking order for the table and orders the food. He decided on some food and drink and we started the party without the Vietnamese teachers. I was a little cool from the rain and it was nice to have the banana rice wine to warm me up from the inside out. Combined with goat curry and a crowded restaurant it was not long until I started to feel toasty.The first Vietnamese teacher to arrive was Tyler’s Vietnamese teacher. He told me before that he used to live in or near Richmond in Melbourne, and I was impressed with his English. Next was Lam from International Relations and he has a reputation for enjoying the rice wine. The last to come were Hanh and Ngo. I think they were scared of the rain.
We enjoyed the goat soup and each others chatting about the past, present and the future. Soon the future talk turned to what we would do next, and someone suggested karaoke. I felt timid about such a proposal as I don’t want to inflict audio pain on too many people.
We decided on the place and proceeded to move there. We got ourselves a room and started to sing songs and have a great time. I was shocked to find out some of the words in the English songs were not correct and the selection of English songs was small. We had a new karaoke system which was not English song friendly. We overcame this problem by being stubborn and I watched as everybody sang their hearts out and had an immense amount of fun.
After karaoke we returned home to enjoy more beer and play video baseball and cowboy games until the wee hours of the morning.
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