Well after a very (VERY) long day of flying, we arrived in Hanoi, and after an interesting car ride (I didn't even know they drove on the left! Never mind the complete lack of indicators)! We arrived in Hanoi to stay with a Swiss Physio named Flavia, it was our last hot shower for the foreseeable future.
It appears that so far we are more of a novelty, with lots of students from the local school coming to practice English with us and get photos. We also have had plenty of cuddles!
But then things got very interesting! After spending Sunday at the Orphanage getting to know everyone, we had to go to the authorities first thing on Monday for approval....
Without a word of a lie, first we had to ride on the back of a motorbike behind the Sisters to get to the authorities little office, now I was expecting the usual questions..... what is your reason for coming etc.
FIRST QUESTION: are you married?
SECOND: Would you like a Vietnamese Husband?
This was also all followed up with, how many chocolates did you get this Valentines? Would you like to have coffee tonight? and eventually we were only allowed out after promising to go to Karaoke with the big wigs.
One condition of entry however, was we had to complete three rounds of shots of unknown alcohol (definitely home brew of some variety) with the Nuns, Sister Lin had a definite rosey glow, causing us to question the drink driving limit in Vietnam. However after approximately 3 hours of awkward questioning and drinking, we are allowed to stay! Yippeeee! We proceeded to come home and fall asleep!
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