This is Old Quarter

Hi everyone. Sorry again for the lack in updates. I know "busy" isn't an excuse but I find it hard to have the time to sit down and do anything at all. This week I taught for the first time! I taught 2 lessons for a 7th grade class and 1 lesson for a 5th grade class. I definitely liked the younger class much more and can't wait to find out my placement within the primary school.  I've learned first hand just how hard lesson planning and teaching is from my lessons this week.

Tonight our WorldTeach field trainer is leaving after 3 weeks of intense classroom sessions and practicums helping all 8 of us get ready to teach in the classroom starting on August 5. Next week is the final week of orientation and this is hosted by Wellspring School. To celebrate the end of Becca's time in Hanoi, we went out to Old Quarter and had street food! This is the first time I have had street food in Hanoi, mostly because I wasn't sure my stomach could handle it until now. We were given 3 cooking plates over individual fires to keep on our plastic tables and sat around those on even smaller plastic stools... very Vietnam. After this, we put pork, beef, and vegetables onto the plate above the fire and cooked for ourselves. The food was delicious! After this, we walked to the famous icecream shop in Old Quarter for a nice treat. Dinner was 87,000 VND with beer and the ice cream was 10,000 VND making my total for the night less than $5 USD!

The following pictures and video represent street food in Old Quarter, Hanoi, Vietnam: 

I LOVE HANOI!

- kel