- People carrying ridiculous amounts of things on a motorbike.
- Lizards on the walls at night. Roosters wandering the streets. Giant snails.
- The guy on the bus this morning who was carrying a live chicken in a bag.
- The reaction of my co-workers when they find out I use the city bus system
- And speaking of the bus... Back in the USA, we have a thing called a bus stop. Here, they have something that might more accurately be called a bus "stop". Or maybe a bus-slows-down-enough-that-you-can-risk-life-and-limb-jumping-on-or-off.
- People (very rich people, presumably) here who own Lamborghinis in a city where they're never going to get to drive over 40 MPH (and I hear the country roads don't get much faster).
- Spam is kept in a locked case in the local grocery store.
- Apparently, it's perfectly fine to ride your motorbike on the sidewalk or to ride it the wrong way up a divided highway or one-way street, but you had better wear your helmet or use your turn signals, or you get pulled over. Fines, by the way, are paid in cash, on the spot.
- Speaking of cash, the exchange rate is 20,000 VND to the dollar. Who wants to be a millionaire? A million is what you withdraw from the ATM for a night out with friends.
- Frog porridge. Original Singapore frog porridge. Since 2006.
These are just a few of the quirky things we've encountered here. In the meantime, the job is off to a good start, I've been enjoying daily pool time, and we've been having a great time eating awesome food that is very inexpensive.
We haven't tried the frog porridge yet. But it could happen. We live two floors up from the restaurant that serves it.
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