Vietnam,
day..... month..... year.....
Dear Giang,
I've been here two and a half weeks already. I won't
start my research topic for another half month. I still have a lot of free time to go
about the town and opportunity to study the way of life of Vietnamese people, and
especially opportunity to speak in Vietnamese with them. I hope my Vietnamese will
improve a great deal.
The place where I live doesn't have cooking facilities, so
everyday I go out to eat. I like that better because there's no lack of restaurants
and dishes. Throughout the day there are always people eating on the street or in
cafes.
I notice Vietnamese people don't eat like
Westerners. Their breakfast is a bowl of beef noodle soup, perhaps, or a plate of
steamed rolls, and so on, and maybe they eat these dishes many times during the day
instead of a cup of coffee and a sweet roll, the way Westerners do in their
breaks. But that doesn't mean Vietnamese don't know or like to drink coffee, on the
contrary, they like it very much. The coffee in VietNam is absolutely delicious,
especially ice coffee with milk.
I'll still have many chances to write you. So, until
the next letter, wishing you always well.
Affectionately, Stephen |
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