Last Friday afternoon, 5 girls stopped by to say hi and to turn in their homework. They came into my "office" and we chatted for a little bit. It was nice to be able to speak more one-on-one with the students outside of class. It was also nice to hear them speak English since most of these girls are very quiet in class. I've been encouraging all of them to stop by at least once a week to get some listening and speaking practice.
These 5 girls came from the same hometown, some small farm town about 20km away. They were on their way home for the weekend. I thought they were taking the bus, but they said they were biking home. I asked how long it would take them, and they said 2 hours! 2 hours of biking in the hot VN afternoon sun! They said they couldn't take the bus because they get motion sickness. And I remember seeing buses giving out small plastic bags to passengers, so apparently a lot of people here can't handle the bus very well.
The parents of a lot of these kids are farmers. They must be very proud to have a kid in college.
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