Windows here aren’t windows like we know ’em back home. They’re openings with shutters and security bars. It’s different…..but I kinda like it. Being that there’s no glass….and no screen….I’ve taken to putting mosquito netting over the window…..er, opening…..to function as a screen…. hopefully keeping the critters out…..hopefully. I don’t like mosquito netting hanging over my bed. It feels sort of stifling believe it or … Continue reading Wild Kingdom
The day after I’d been out to that one-day job (and got home at midnight), I had a commitment to take a bus to Thai Binh, which is where my new job is. I’d learned the buses leave about every half hour and decided to take the noon bus, so at 11:30 I grabbed a taxi. I’d got the bus station address off the internet. … Continue reading Have I mentioned….?
Two days ago I had a one day job in a small city 2 hours outside of Ha Noi. In this job I was to stand around, smile, look Anglo-Saxon and speak English. No, really. Luckily for them, they’d hired a professional….I can do that stuff with my eyes closed. I was picked up by the administrator…..or something…of the school. We also stopped and picked … Continue reading Job Posting – Native English Speaker for talking
Wow, what a difference a day makes…..or, well, maybe about six days….. Still, it all seems to have happened overnight. I’ve been sending out my resume (or CV as they are apparently now called) everywhere around Hanoi. Trying, trying to get a job. Like I’ve said before, it hasn’t been as easy as I’d thought it would be. Also, when I would find a job, … Continue reading A few days in Hanoi
Just across the way from my place is a small lake….a pond, really…and this morning I strolled over there for a ca phé. I brought my David Sedaris book with me to read while I sipped. So, here’s this enormously tall American woman sitting by the pond, having her morning cuppa Joe, giggling maniacally……there goes the neighborhood… Anyway, as I sat there, I’d occasionally tear … Continue reading Strolling along…
It started……it started…..when did it start? I could say it all started when Mike said ‘Hey..’…but that’s another story for another time….. This particular chapter of that story started somewhere around November 2011. After 10 years of self-employment, Mike sold his landscape business – he’d had enough….but that, of course, meant he needed a new source of income. He’d been a teacher years before and … Continue reading Welcome to ZiggyTraveler!
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