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Who: Marjie, a life-long resident and high school teacher from Seattle
What: Decides to rent out her condo and sign a ten-month contract to teach sixth grade English and Ancient History at a relatively new, quickly growing international school in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
When: In August, with one month's notice - along with 33 others from the US, Canada, Australia, Britain and New Zealand (most of them last-minute, too)
p.s. (That was last year; now she's on Year #2)
What: Decides to rent out her condo and sign a ten-month contract to teach sixth grade English and Ancient History at a relatively new, quickly growing international school in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
When: In August, with one month's notice - along with 33 others from the US, Canada, Australia, Britain and New Zealand (most of them last-minute, too)
p.s. (That was last year; now she's on Year #2)
Frequently Mentioned Cast
The Castle - a five story stack house with a rooftop deck, in the midst of the best morning market in the city.
Katherine - castlemate and the primary PE teacher from Montreal, Canada.
Franco - castlemate and a third grade teacher from Portland, Oregon.
Tarn - former castlemate and the high school librarian from Wellington, New Zealand (in many of last year's posts).
Pretty Lady - Tarn's bicycle.
Nam (or "Mom") - Marjie's motorcycle-taxi driver and surrogate mother. He is also Marjie's self-appointed food screener.
Nam's Family - sells fabric at the morning market.
Thuy (pronounced "Twee") - sells fabric at the morning market and serves as the castle's Sunday night cooking instructor.
Thanh - (pronounced "Tawn") Thuy's sister and business partner.
Sweet Seamstress or Ms. Hao - seamstress who lives three doors down from the castle. Her assistant is Lieu and her son is Ut.
Bum Bum Girls - girls who work at the Bum Bum Salon in the alley near the Castle. Katherine and Marjie's "second home."
Tran - Katherine and Marjie's favorite massage therapist at the Bum Bum (she's not there anymore; now she comes to the castle for massages on request).
Banana Cake Lady and Rice Lady - women who supply Marjie's breakfast each morning.
"The Band" - Four people who regularly comment on the blog: Brian, Karyn ("the norris clan"), Amy ("amyt"), Bill (used to be "kumma" or "sbill" but recently transformed into "Mungo") and one person who makes star appearances: Rita (of One-Minute-Poem fame).
Katherine - castlemate and the primary PE teacher from Montreal, Canada.
Franco - castlemate and a third grade teacher from Portland, Oregon.
Tarn - former castlemate and the high school librarian from Wellington, New Zealand (in many of last year's posts).
Pretty Lady - Tarn's bicycle.
Nam (or "Mom") - Marjie's motorcycle-taxi driver and surrogate mother. He is also Marjie's self-appointed food screener.
Nam's Family - sells fabric at the morning market.
Thuy (pronounced "Twee") - sells fabric at the morning market and serves as the castle's Sunday night cooking instructor.
Thanh - (pronounced "Tawn") Thuy's sister and business partner.
Sweet Seamstress or Ms. Hao - seamstress who lives three doors down from the castle. Her assistant is Lieu and her son is Ut.
Bum Bum Girls - girls who work at the Bum Bum Salon in the alley near the Castle. Katherine and Marjie's "second home."
Tran - Katherine and Marjie's favorite massage therapist at the Bum Bum (she's not there anymore; now she comes to the castle for massages on request).
Banana Cake Lady and Rice Lady - women who supply Marjie's breakfast each morning.
"The Band" - Four people who regularly comment on the blog: Brian, Karyn ("the norris clan"), Amy ("amyt"), Bill (used to be "kumma" or "sbill" but recently transformed into "Mungo") and one person who makes star appearances: Rita (of One-Minute-Poem fame).
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25 comments:
might recycle a science assignment into an English one if it fits.
He looks like the kind of kid who leaves things in class all the time, then has to come back to look for them!
He looks like he is kind, considerate, and probably likes a good joke. Are those blue rimmed glasses?
Hummm... looks like a boy who thinks constantly, so much so that he may be the "absent minded professor" type: divising scientific strategies, researching the backstory to literature, but forgetting to leave time to eat lunch.
Those eyes says he cares for people deeply, and enjoys humor: on others or on himself... as long as there is a laugh, he's happy.
"I think he would check out the book that his English class is reading and read the whole thing on the first day so he knows how it ends before everyone else" =)
...has a lightning bolt scar on his forehead?
He looks kind with a wonderful sense of humor. He's very smart and polite to his favorite teacher. He can organize a class prank and then sit with an innocent smile on his face.
...would get his stuff stolen and hidden by his classmates as almost a daily good-natured joke...
He looks like a little like Harry Potter . . . smart, clever, heroic and kind!
He looks like the type of person who would read your blog!
is an amazingly talented piano player.
This looks like the kind of person who would help an old lady across the street, carrying her bags and walking slowly by her side.
He looks like the kind of kid that seems like a normal, friendly kid at first glance, but then secretly invents cold fusion in his bedroom and solves the world's energy problems. Or maybe solves world hunger.
Did I get it right?
I agree with Megan......would check out the book that his English class is reading and read the whole thing on the first day so he knows how it ends before everyone else". What cutie :-)
I know that kid! He always recycles his science assignments into English ones and if he leaves anything in class he always comes back to look for it. He'd look great in some blue glasses!
he looks like someone who would be in love with Katherine Barlow (otherwise known as Kissin' Kate Barlow)...
Looks like a sixth-grade lady-killer to me! The ladies must fall in his tracks...
I think he looks like a cruel person who never let anyone lend his stuffs and never return things when he borrows someone's stuffs. He is so not kind and he is not considerate.
Annie 6C
Noooooooooooooooo!!!!
I will talk with you later!
Trust me, Ms. Marjorie, I would not let you escape so easily this Tuesday!
So I am pretty sure that the last three comments were posted by the subject of this post. If so, the subject of this post has threatened me.
As for Annie, 6C, it's "Opposite Day" here in Viet Nam. She is good friends with the subject of this post!
While threatening a teacher is never a good idea, he did use very good English to do so. Surely this will earn him bonus points while he's sitting in detention...?
After 4 years, the part about me forgetting stuff in class and having to return to find them is still true.
Alex!! This does not surprise me... hey, did you know I will be in Vietnam after Christmas? Will you be there? Linda is putting together a meeting for any of you who are "left." I would love to see you. Send me an email: marjiebowker@hotmail.com
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