Day 4 Sapa Vietnam

Ok so I posted fromViet Trei in there crappy Internet cafe and I guess it didn't work!!! So I will break down the last 3 days.

Viet Trei, Hanoi, Vietnam
First thing I thought when I got off the plane is this place smells like fish and BO!! We had a two hour bus drive to our hotel. The ride was definitley interesting. Driving directions and rules are only a suggestion and nobody takes it. The building are dirty on bottom and immaculate up top with a french colonial style. Dogs,chickens, and cows have free range everywhere. There are a million acres of rice patties and the women are working in them while the men stare at them drinking beer. The hotel is nice. The rooms are just the bare neccessities. My only complaint is the box spring they call a mattress!!! It really is just a boxspring with sheets on it. The city is loud with people honking there horns 24/7, people yelling, and motor bike engines.

At 5;30 every morning, Miss Hanoi gets on the speaker phone and yells the national athem and screams propaganda. Awh to be in a communist country!!!

Thanh Ba

Our first clinic. We saw 120 children. The main things we saw were sinus infections, strep throat, and false compliants. We were there from 9 to 3. The people are very grateful and endearing towards us. The kids were horrified by all the poking and cold instruments we put on there chest, but they all survived : ) When we got back home we hurried and packed to get on a train for an overnight ride. First train ride and first overnight train ride. Woo Hoo!! It wasn't bad. Everybody had the thought of being on the oriental express.

Sa Pa

I've just arrived in Sapa. IT is one of the most beautiful places I've been! It is high in the Vietnam mountains and borders China and Cambodia. All the people wear bright and colorful colors and the children love to talk to us. They follow wherever we go :) We'll I'll try to write tomorrow. We have another clinic at the Sa Pa orphanage. The expect over 300 children tomorrow. TTYL