I'm slowly getting used to being alone again and really feeling like a foreigner in a foreign country. My family in Sai Gon made it easier for me while I was there. I can't remember if I mentioned it before, but there are distinct Vietnamese accents I didn't know existed. The accent where my mom grew up sounds like Vietnamese with a southern drawl. The Vietnamese in Hue is a bitch. They accent words completly differently than what I'm used to. For instance if the sound of the word starts low pitched then goes high they startlow and go lower. This probably makes no sense so I'll move on.
I don't like the traveler hotspots in Viet Nam. The food sucks since it's catered to western tastes. I had the worst bowl of pho from a place Lonely Planet highly recommended. I should've known better than to go into a place where no Vietnamese were eating. On top of that the cyclo drivers are assholes. It seems like they're all pimping for "massage" parlors. On the flip side I'm not comfortable in completely Vietnamese areas because my Vietnamese is still not that great.
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