Quick Updates

--Last week on Saturday I moved in with my new host family.  They are very nice.  They have two sons.  One is around 9 and the other is 16 and is doing a foreign exchange program in Philadelphia.  At night I would watch HBO with my host dad and teach him random English words that were spoken on screen.  He would teach me Vietnamese in return.  I also helped teach give my host brother an English lesson.

--On Monday I found out that I couldn't stay with them.  Turns out the police were suspicious of the fact that they had a son in the US and an American in their home.  So the registration fell through.

--On Tuesday I moved back in with Derek and Ana, the MCC coordinator and his wife.

--Two days ago I got a call from someone who had gotten my number from the language school asking if I could teach English at a school on Sunday. 

--Today I met with them.  They offered me a salary to teach English every Sunday for three months.  I was pretty sure there was some MCC policy against getting a salary from another job and I didn't want to commit myself to three months of teaching.  Therefore, I told them that I would teach one time, tomorrow, for free.  Also, today I found out that MCC has found a new host family.  I will move in on Monday.

--Tomorrow I guess I'm teaching three half hour classes to students aged 10-14.  We will see how that goes.  I'm also going to meet with my ex-host family for lunch.  They said that they still would like to invite me over and take me out for picnics on occasions.   

Here are some more pics.  I took these from the top floor at the building where I work.