A view of our class room and the valley in Mau Chau

Houses on stilits.

We got back from our rural visit yesterday. It is amazing how quickly time passess. The week there as well as the month in Vietnam is over. Although I am really looking foward to Brazil it is tough to leave here. Today at 8pm we head to the airport where at 12 midnight we take off layover in paris and finally land in Sao Paulo. A grand total of 24 hours in the air... Everyone is pretty excited about Braizl. Last night we had a fairwell dinner with our host families at the largest buffet I have ever seen. Foods from all over the world, fresh fruits, Vietnamese food. You name it it was there. At this buffet I expanded my list of crazy things to have tried by eating a grilled baby sparrow. It tasted a lot like chicken and looked exatly like the baby birds that I caught last summer, so i find my self in a pickle do I catch the birds and collect data or catch them and eat them haha.

Today most of us are saying goodbye to our families as well as working on a paper that is due when we land in Brazil. Yes we could do it on the plane but thats one of the only times we get to catch up on TV and movies. Being college students, and having our priorities of course we are going to watch the movies. That leaves us with today to finish up the last of our assignments. Well I guess that is it for now. Look for updates from Brail!

Joel