Greetings from mountains, I am back from a short retreat in mountains area called Tam Dao. The resort was really beautiful, but it does not help if it is raining and blowing for 3 days so we could not really enjoy facilities. Sounds stubid, but how have I forgotton the Finnish weather so soon. And how do I get used to it once we are back again. Scary...
This weekend is quiet, staying in home campus all weekend, and looking forward to the next. The father´s day celebration takes place in Ho Chi Minh City, where I have not had a chance to travel yet, it´s time now then. When I met some colleagues around the country in Tam Dao, I realised once again that there are so many interesting places to visit in Vietnam where I will never have a chance to go as I want to see the half of South East Asia as well. So I continue dreaming about being a full time traveller like many of my friends have been here for a year or two. Takes at least 18 years before I can do it meaning that I am over 50, hopefully still fit enough to do it. I met some Finnish backbaggers last weekend and they told that their budget is about 2000 €/month. Not bad, but meaning that you need to sleep in guesthouses. Not bad, still, I think.
By the way, if you are wondering why there is lots of space between words in my writing, the spacebar is broken, thanks to the youngest member of the family. Has been for quite a while, but it is not worth buying a new laptop as we can´t get ä´s and ö´s here, so need to wait till Finland. Any tips how to fix a keyboard? Or how to raise up an energetic 1,5 yrs old and avoid further damages? I always remember when we had these badly behaving Finnish Spitz, my mother used to speak and command them in Swedish. It worked little bit better than in Finnish for some reason. But in our case this little man speaks Vietnamese to me and stares that don't you really get it, mom? No, I don´t.
Well, not much exciting this time. I am missing many of you in Facebook and looking forward to seeing you there, though I do not admit to be too addicted (yet). And even if you are older, this is not only for youth, a colleague older than me just reported that her father is there as well, so no age limits, though it reminds me a little bit of "ystäväkirja" from the primary school...
lauantai, 3. marraskuu 2007