I love my work!

My English class with Phil's office colleagues 3 mornings a week has become one of the most enjoyable and rewarding experiences of my time in HCMC. When I started motorbike training with Phil, the roads around the Software City campus before work provided the most convenient location and time as Phil had to be there anyway and there was a bus straight home from across the road. As the need for a tutor had been mentioned, I was going to regularly be at the office and I had just completed my 20 hours online TEFL certificate, I timidly suggested that it could be mutually beneficial to have an English practice time with whoever wanted to come in early before I caught the bus home. I am so glad my friends said yes! They have taught me a lot about life and culture in Vietnam and we have had plenty of fun just chatting (and sometimes singing) in English while I check their pronunciation and vocabulary (sipping my lovely ice coffee). It's been awesome to have local mates to share my funny stories about adapting to living and getting around here and I always travel home (often riding my motorbike) feeling appreciated and privileged to be part of such a merry and sociable group!

Some of my Ho Chi Minh City friends.