Hanoi, Viet Nam
21° 1' N 105° 50' E
Jun 19, 2006 16:59
Distance 1012km

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goooooaaaaaaalll !!!!!!!!!!!

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world cup mania continues - brasil played australia, brasil won, of course. it felt a little like footbal sunday in the states, cept it was futbol not football, it was 1am not afternoon, there's no couch just my bed, and the beer aint bud but bia ha noi. anywhoo, the more I watch, the more I realize:

- when the hell do you go to the bathroom? there are hardly any penalties, play is so fast and goes non-stop. give me american football with its 20 mins of play spread out over one hour. my bladder was bursting before I finally pulled myself away.

- I'm starting to appreciate footwork and how a scoreless game can still be exciting. I also appreciate super-slo-mo. it's a girls best friend - legs have never looked so good...

- the vietnamese announcers are so subdued - they just talked when brasil made their goals. but in my head, I could hear all those brasilians hollering: gooooooooaaaaaaalllllllll!

- music stinks too - they played horrible 80s synth pop during breaks and the closing credits - during these, the biggest games of the year. this is SO not the NFL.

aside from watching loads of team sports, I've been doing a ton of sketching lately. the mural kicked me into overdrive in the art dept. I'm working up a family of cartoon-ish characters (see start below, more is on the way). not sure where this is going - hopefully on a wall somewhere...

I met this awesome girl in a gallery yesterday - Ngo Mai Dung. she's studying to be a manager. I told her to email any questions she has :) when I told her about traveling and doing art, she said "really you're not traveling, you're working". sometimes it takes a stranger to point out what's so obvious...

and ironic as I realize my viet nam visa expires 29 june - exactly 1 year after I quit my job. yip - in a couple weeks it'll be a full year of glorious unemployment.

tomorrow it's off to halong bay. I ran into carol again so my partner in crime is back. we get to sleep on a boat in the bay, go kayaking, snorkelling, trekking, plus hopefully eat a lot.

 

 

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finally some graffiti! in hanoi sunset over the lake downtown another weight-er! finally realize that woman in peru wasn't so creative afterall... most beautifully presented burger and fries I've ever seen I'm coloring them in right now, but here's the start
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