IM SORRY!

So it’s been a seriously long time since my last post, and I apologize, but my last post proved to be more than true. The last two weeks has been something seriously crazy… for real. Event after event happened, and I’m just now getting back to normal/not sick/myself again. So lets see… in the past two weeks: Nick came to visit for four days, John came to replace me, I got a really bad fever/headache/stomach ache which left me unable to pick him up from the airport, I got pink eye, I tried to leave cambodia, I left cambodia, and somehow I made it to Nha Trang. Alot of this sounds pretty boring and not that crazy, but just take my word for it.

So Nick came, and of course when anyone comes to visit you in a place they’ve never been before, you want to show them the best time that you can so they can fully appreciate the place that you’ve come to love. Maybe I mentally took that idea overboard, but I spent those 4 or 5 days just worrying about what we could do and between worrying and walking miles a day in the sun I ended up with a terrible fever and an awful headache, and unable to pick John up from the airport when he arrived on saturday night. So after I bummed around for an entire day with that, I was pretty okay by the next evening and thought to myself ‘well great, at least I got one more sickness out of the way before the beach so I have nothing to worry about..”

Wrong.

Fast forward a day where I was finally taking some time to myself at my favorite cafe spot, the Living Room Cafe, and I started to notice that my eye was really soar and kind of gunky but really thought nothing of it. Once I got home and looking in the mirror I discovered a completely bloodshot eye, which I thought was from me rubbing it to get the gunk out. Hoping it would go away after some decent sleep, I woke up to the same sight. 2 hours later I was sitting in the office of the SOS Clinic getting an intensive eye exam to figure out what was wrong with me, which we found out to be a little more sever version of pink eye and $88 later, I was on my way with some antibiotic eye drops.

So I thought my troubles were finally over. I’d pack my things and be on my way to Vietnam to meet up with the GLC students in Nha Trang. I booked my ticket several days in advance and had it all planned out to catch the 8am bus on the third which would leave me with 2 hours at the airport for security and check in things. When I went to the bus station to buy my ticket on the morning of the 2rd, they informed me that, unlike Cambodia, Vietnam doesn’t allow upon arrival visas, so I was going to have to stay for another day until I could get my visa processed and granted.

Okay, fine.

So I fill out the paper work, flustered and a bit annoyed, very quickly and left. I went back to the embassy at 4:30 like instructed only to find out that in my flustered rush, I filled out the wrong entry date (as the 4th and not 3rd) and that I couldn’t entry the country until the 4th unless I payed them an extra 10 dollars to WHITE OUT wrong date and put a stamp over it. Awesome.

So after an hour delay on my flight, I finally arrived in Nha Trang last night safe and sound at 8ish. After being bombarded by taxi drivers offering to take me to my destination, I chose one who seemed to speak decent English and claimed to know where our hotel was. About 15km down the road he begins asking me what the name was and if I knew how to get there. Great. By some string of luck I happened to catch a glimpse of the tiny ‘Golden Rain Hotel’ sign and finally made it.

Now, its about 9:45pm and I think I’m going to head to bed because of the tiny amount of sleep I’ve gotten in the past 3 days. Tomorrow we are bussing to a place called Dalak, so hopefully I’ll have some internet connection to update you on my time here so far and maybe upload some pictures of my last time in Cambodia and my first little while here in Vietnam.

Until then,

Kyle

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