We integrate
Up late in the morning, breakfast, walk.Once with Hen to the top of the mountain.
With Danny to see the fields he cares (not easy being a farmer).
Once on foot to see the lake.
One day all around the farm. It took 2 hours.
One day all around the farm. It took 2 hours.
Yarden helped planters to take care of the lawn ... they cut it by hand with a machete, while Yarden who loves to cut with scissors really enjoyed.
To finish the day school and dinner.
To finish the day school and dinner.
During this month and a half we went to school every day, in the afternoon around 3 pm, after siesta, until 5 o'clock for Yarden to play and tobogganing.
Kim, Yarden's teacher is really nice.
My impressions:
The teachers use the stick a bit much, still plastic, and they pull the ears too. It was a great dilemma to decide whether I let Yarden alone or not.
My impressions:
The teachers use the stick a bit much, still plastic, and they pull the ears too. It was a great dilemma to decide whether I let Yarden alone or not.
They are still trying to align them. And the stick is there if they pass the line...
Then after a few days, as I stood there, I realized she was not playing anymore and instead remained at my side. So I decided to give it a try and go for a walk.
Then after a few days, as I stood there, I realized she was not playing anymore and instead remained at my side. So I decided to give it a try and go for a walk.
I took some pictures around, but after 10 minutes I saw Tuan bicycling to me making me understand that I need to go back and that Yarden was in tears. It will be for tomorrow. I stayed with her a few days then started again. She got accustomed to my disappearance, enjoying to be there.
What I did in the meantime? Took pictures of course! The first time around the lake where I took lots of thorns.
I did a little tour of the neighborhood.
I went to the small village, 10 minutes walking away.
I did a little tour of the neighborhood.
I went to the small village, 10 minutes walking away.
The market vendors all asked me to take pictures. Vietnamese people like it. They pause all the time.
The road runs along the rice fields.
Another day one of the israelies saw me walking on the road and asked me to go for a ride to see the construction of the next farm.
Another day one of the israelies saw me walking on the road and asked me to go for a ride to see the construction of the next farm.
Then I helped an old woman pick up her rice in bags on the road. Yeah I sweeped the road... and with one hand. This is where they dry it during the day. Corn also, hay and everything else. It's convenient: it is flat, sunny, what else do they need. From time to time the trucks roll over when they intersect, but hey, so what?
This September 22 is the Full Moon Festival. It is a festival full of symbols and full of history, but here is the children festival. Dance program at school, children were dancing with a sort of dragon. The headmaster gave a doll to Yarden, I guess as a welcome. Finally distributing sweets to everyone (at least one kilogram per kid). Yarden who never really knew it, no choice here.
The night the festival party is at the Municipal House in the small village. We waited at one of the children mother who speaks English and invited us for diner.
This time the children sing, and again candies and more candies.
One Sunday Nga invited us to her house. It has a 6 year old son, Huang. A short tour at her uncle's in the small village beside the lake. It's 2 km away and she wanted to give us a ride with her motorcycle, ie we would be 4, and without a helmet. Well, it will be by foot for us. A pig, chickens, buffaloes, a vegetable garden, the typical house.
On returning home, she offered us to stay and eat, they would cook the dog had just run over. Well, we went back home...
Another Sunday at the pool.
That's the life of this first month in the wilds of Vietnam.
Yarden puts a lot of atmosphere in the evening after dinner, singing and joking with everyone. She even managed to dance Ouga Ouga with the guys next to the pool. What a joke.
There are also some of her children sentences that are quite successful. Among other things, looking at the ceiling of the room: "Mommy it is the wall's sky" or watching the moon half hidden by clouds, "the moon is damaged", or when coming home from school and seeing the sun reflected in the lake: "mum the sun is coming with us?"
That's the life of this first month in the wilds of Vietnam.
Yarden puts a lot of atmosphere in the evening after dinner, singing and joking with everyone. She even managed to dance Ouga Ouga with the guys next to the pool. What a joke.
There are also some of her children sentences that are quite successful. Among other things, looking at the ceiling of the room: "Mommy it is the wall's sky" or watching the moon half hidden by clouds, "the moon is damaged", or when coming home from school and seeing the sun reflected in the lake: "mum the sun is coming with us?"
Upon arriving, I had in mind two things for Yarden: a small bamboo house and a sandbox.
For the little house, I wanted to buy the bamboo and make it myself. It was my project. Then I said that given the availability of drivers, it would galley. One day of shopping in Thai Hoa, I ask the driver to stop seeing bamboo outside. I entered the store to get information, they were making all kinds of baskets. So I took my small block to make a drawing of what I wanted, he gave me his price and how long it would take, and voila, the house was ordered.
A week later I had to organize a pickup and a driver, and the house was really much nicer than what I expected.
As for the sandbox it is Eli, the neighbor who has 3 children at home, and therefore knows the situation, which has been kind enough to go pinching one day some sand somewhere in the farm. As for the box, I recovered it from electricians who had just brought some material beside of the house.
