xin chao Vietnam

ok so i have been here a week i guess i can actually type something.  first thing i learned about vietnam is the traffic is terrible.  they have lanes but i really dont know why they bother, cars go wherever they want, usually in a two lane street there are actually 4 or 5 cars cramming in.  the space that the cars are not taking up is used by crazies swerving in and out in their scooters.  there are approximately a million scooters on any given road and they pretty much go where ever they want.  this includes, but is not limited to, in between cars, on the opposite side of the street against traffic, and the side walk.  the first lesson i learned here is that when you are given a walk symbol at an intersection it is in no way guaranteeing you a safe journey to the other side of the street.  traffic aside, the people here are really nice.  everyone is very friendly, i feel a bit like a celebrity sometimes.  when we were in the country we visited a friend of a friend who is a rice farmer in a very small village.  i dont think they have ever seen americans before and they were so nice.  little kids followed us everywhere and every family invited us in to see there homes.  it was kinda weird, they would walk us through like a museum showing us their prized possessions.  they all offered us food and water even though they had very little and we did end up having dinner with one of them.  mckenzie was even proposed to while we were there. oh sorry, introductions:  mckenzie and ellen, this is no one, no one this is mckenzie and ellen (shown in the pic of me and the two girls next to the temple looking building thing).  ok, the last thing i am going to say is about my host family (shown in the pictures i will hopefully be adding to this post)  the mom is lihn (pronounced 'ling') the dad is nghia but he says i cannot pronounce it right so he told me to call him mark, and their daughter lihn-li which literally means 'little lihn.'  they are incredibly nice people.  she is the piano teacher at a childrens school.  she graduated from the conservatory with a degree in piano performance and used to be a concert pianist before having kids (i say kids because she is pregnant if you couldent figure that out).  he is a businesses  man.  him and his brother own a bose speaker/mac computer store here.  he goes to america a lot on business and his favorite thing to do is point out the differences in taste and look from american fruits and vegitables to vietnamese.  i think he mostly does this to look cool to his family.  haha.  lihn-li is really cute but still kinda scared of me i think.  she used to run away when ever i came in, now she hides behind her big stuffed deer doll and sneeks up to me.  when i look at her she stops moving and hides behind the doll, then when i turn around she starts moving toward me slowly.  anyways, im sick of typing and no one is going to read this anyways so