Ask for toilet paper and you get a guava

Since it is monsoon season it typically is sunny in the morning and between 12 and 4 pm it will rain for ~3 hrs. And when I say rain I mean by the buckets. Its like a water park.

Today I am in Trah Vinh while my collegues attend a meeting on aquauculture. Its in Vietnamese so I am not sure how much I would get out of it plus I would have needed some sort of security clearance. Anyway, I am enjoying ice coffee at the cafe with Wifi. During the week I have worked with the faculty here on translating some important papers and next week we will dive into the snakehead fish research. I'm looking forward to it.

After the meeting today I will be taken to do some sight seeing. There are beautiful pagodas here that are used by the Khmer people. They are an indigenous people that mainly reside in Cambodia but some clusters like in Trah Vinh have stayed despite the Vietnamese take over of this area in the 16th or 17th century. I'm looking forward to it.

Now that I take the hotel toilet paper with me everywhere I go I had to ask for some at the hotel. This did not go well, as I received a guava instead. For those of you who don't know, that is a fruit with red meat inside. They taste awful in the Carribean or at least smell awful but here the variety tastes quite good. Finally through some complicated act of Shirades I was able to obtain my toilet paper.

Note: Do Not just dive into the food here or you will hurt yourself like in any sport. I had spicy grilled calamari and cocanut sauce on rabbit last night. I didn't think that would be too bad....wrrrrrroooooonnng! stick to soup with noodles for a while.

I am posting a video of what the streets at night look like here in the more touristy section, though I would not call it that touristy....I may have seen 8 tourist in total there.