I haven't caught up with all the older posts I have semi-typed-out in MS Word, but cool, interesting, funny, and/or vaguely embarrassing stuff keeps happening.
Briefly, then: I'm talking with one of the other teachers at AHS. I tell him that I've been in Vietnam for all of two weeks.
He is surprised. "Well, what have you learned in those two weeks?"
A lot, really, but the most surprising thing just pops out. "Riding a motorbike doesn't leave me sucking my thumb and hugging my teddy bear anymore. It's actually gotten to be kind of fun. You know, risking death on a minute-by-minute basis and pulling it off through manly courage and cat-like reflexes is pretty invigorating."
He shakes his head. "That is a bad, bad sign."
"Why do you say that?"
"Because you'll either die here, or never want to leave. Either way, you aren't going home."
Heh. Well, Sean remains in Africa most of the time, doesn't he? Perhaps we'll need to write a song about you too, O!
ReplyDeleteAlso, I love the acronym for your school. Every time I read "AHS" I mentally pronounce it "ass."
But that's the kind of guy I am. :)