Saturday, January 10, 2009

01 01 2009 On the sleeper bus from Hue to Hoi An.

Note 1: New Year in Hue was unforgettable. In very heavy rain. We went to a high school party with some couchsurfing friends. Vietnamese people smile a lot in general, but when its new year and it's high school kids, its unbelievable. Midnight, countdown, all the little Vietnamese are jumping around, singing and smiling, some are waving sparkling sticks in the air, hot air baloons are flying away all around despite the rain, and then this girl under a red rain cover with her boyfriend looks up to me, has the biggest smile, she's litteraly trepidating with joy and she says "it's very wonderful isn't it?" It's strange to fall in love not with someone, but with a moment.Note 2: The sleeper bus, very adequate for Vietnamese people, is not so 'sleeper' for Seb who is 1m96. His sleep would have been more pleasant if he could have been amputated just below the knees.

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