After being here for a month in Vietnam I can see myself already growing comfortable with my daily routine. As the work load piles on I stay indoors more and more frequently. With my transportation mode of only taxi or bus and from what it seems like the entire city shutting down around 11pm, I hate to say it but I feel like my life in Vietnam revolves only within the university. I honestly love my surroundings but I can't help but yearn for that feeling of being able to just get into a car and just go. To where I dont know, but to just go whenever I feel like it.
I also need to reconsider my conception of time here. At home, everyone wakes up late and all the activities occur during the night time. In Vietnam it's the complete opposite, the city is awake early in the morning, and I am missing so much by staying in my bed at that time. I need to make an effort to adjust my awake/sleeping time to Vietnam's.
What I am frustrated with the most at myself is that I can't help but feel muted here. Everywhere I go I can half understand whats going on and I'm too afraid to venture out into the streets of Hanoi alone. Maybe its because I'm still in a new surrounding and still feel unsure, I need to remember my goals here is to "Be Brave." But at times the feeling of knowing that I'll be understood is just so reassuring, something that I haven't felt since I've been here.
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