Hannah

Can you believe that we have been here for three days already?! Time is flying by, so we better get our plans in. O.K. I will tell you what we did today. You probably are thinking, same old routine, eat, go to class etc. No! It is new stuff today! If you want to know what we did, go right on ahead and read on. I sure hope we always have breakfast, but today’s breakfast was exciting. The manager at our hotel told us to speak some Vietnamese to him, but we forgot, so he told us to to study last night, and if we do not say some stuff to him, we would not get any breakfast. Ahhh! I would starve if I didn’t get any breakfast! This morning I said my thing to the manager. LUCKILY! We ate this curious fruit called Dragon Fruit. It was very good.

Hannah

     What a day! You could never imagine what happened. Well first I NEED to tell you. We (my mom,brother and I) had our first Vietnamese language class. It was hard, but I made it through. What I mean is that the language of Vietnam is very, very, very difficult. It may seem easy to you if you listen to them, but really you need to do all of the right tones. In the Vietnamese language there are 6 different tones. I will not tell you them because they are hard to write out.

Sumner

Today was our first day in Vietnam. We got up and went to go eat at the hotel restaurant. We ordered our breakfast. I had an omelet, a pancake, some bacon, and a little bit of Hannah’s toast. We were talking about what we wanted to accomplish today. The manager must have overheard us talking about getting a phone, and he said that he could escort us to a place to purchase a phone. We said that we would like to go with him to get one. We went back up to our room then we went back down. The manager asked us to follow this other guy. We went with him to a lady on the sidewalk who had all sorts of cigarettes and used phones. They had a conversation and then she left and got a new phone somewhere else down the sidewalk. Then she gave it to mom and they set it up there on the sidewalk, something that is not found in the U.S.

Sumner

Hotel

We are in the plane over Northern Japan. It has been a long ride but hopefuly wewill be landing in about three hours. We had traveled in a wierd path to get to Seoul it goes like an arch form Seattle and then goes over  some of southern Alaska after that it goes through some of Russia then for the last part of the journey we go down the west coast of Japan then it goes west to Seoul. I think that the reason for this path is this: the further up north you go the less distance it is to go arround the earth. This has been a hard flight for all of us. If you have ever gone on a long flight you know the experience. Sitting up trying to sleep, noise of the your fellow pasengers, noise of the plane, and so much more that henders you from having a good time on the plane. At least there are some goood movies going on I think I have watched one thing on a soccer chanel 2 times and wached Karate Kid 2 once and the end of it a few more times. Hannah and mom heve been attempting to sleep but I think unsucesfuly. We have been following the coastline of nothern Japan for a while and I think that we are about to turn towards Seoul. We are at 38,000 feet and going at about 300ish m/h. I’m going to get up and streach my legs so goodbye

Sumner

We arrived in Seattle a couple minutes ago, and we came to our gate for the next flight. It took around three hours to get to Seattle from Denver. Now it will take approximately 11 hours to get to Seoul, Korea. We are about to go get a bite to eat.