Back to school

Hey so the upper right corner of this page now features a link to the photos I've taken so far (yes all 780 of them). They're not all in chronological order though but hopefully google will implement a feature to auto-arrange them by date/time taken.

So last night we started at the school-- the "Children's Palace" (yes a partner establishment to Michael Jackson's "Neverland"). But yeah it went reasonably well, 4 classes over 3 hours and all were 5-7 years old and so forth. Not quite sure of the demographic background of these children but they appear to be fairly middle class and not the poverty-stricken bunch I at one point had imagined helping but hopefully we'll be able to volunteer in other ways since we are only teaching in the evenings and on the weekends.

Also, met up with Benny last night (who went to grad school with my sister) which was great. The first restaurant we went to had run out of food (!) so we went somewhere else and met up with a bunch of friends he'd met since moving here in July. Two friends of his live just around the corner from us apparently so may be meeting up with them at some point. Also, Benny's been working quite hard I think (he left the office at 10 the other night) as he's basically been put in charge of the (Clinton) Foundation's Vietnamese operations.

Am going to walk around a bit of the city and hopefully see a movie later!! Will post more back info soon. And look at the photos!