Feet and heads, feet and heads...

This past week in Vietnam has been nothing short of amazing! We successfully completed our first week of work on prosthetics and in the clinic. We spent time exploring Can Tho. We stayed in the Vietnamese version of Hawaii. We ate some really good food, as well as some really not so good food.

Work was so much fun! I was in the clinic all week, and I have to say we all got so good at diagnosing patients. If that isn't impressive enough, we did it all speaking Vietnamese! Although sometimes it was helpful to have a translator nearby, most of time time we could figure out what was wrong with our patient just by touch and gesturing, which I found to be very cool. The work on the prosthetics was also very successful. We fitted about 30 patients, all of whom were very happy to have new legs. All of the Vietnamese people are very appreciative and are so grateful that we are there helping them.

The clinic where we worked every day. It was pretty small, but we were able to fit two beds in there, and it was the only semi-air conditioned station where we worked! The prosthetic group worked just outside that window.

Courtney and I taking a break from clinic duties.

Our last night in Can Tho was nothing short of interesting! We decided to take a moto-taxi ride around the city. These taxis are apparently illegal, which is the only thing close to transportation laws that I have come across while in Vietnam. The ride was so much fun and we felt like real Vietnamese people! We stopped at a Karaoke bar, which are almost as common in Vietnam as Waffle House in Georgia. It was the funniest thing, they let you rent out a room for as long as you want and sit on the couches and sing karaoke. The did have American songs, and there was quite an extensive variety, everything from the Beatles to Barney.

After we had satisfied our karaoke fever we go lost in a strange Vietnamese alley, and this picture only happened to look staged:

haha, not. We totally knew where we were going...

On Friday and Saturday we spent our time at a resort in the Vietnamese version of Hawaii, Phu Quoc. It was so nice, and the beach was amazing! It was hard to believe I was standing with my feet in the water on a beach in Vietnam. Wow.

View when we got off the boat.

Practicing my surfing on the bed in the hotel room.

The beach, amazing!

Crossing a sketchy bridge, we made it.

The best cheeseburger in the world! Which leads me to mention the food. The Vietnamese food is so good! I have enjoyed pretty much every meal, and instead of dessert, they give you fruit, how awesome! My favorite exotic fruit is Dragon Fruit. Pink waxy outside, albino kiwi inside, so cool! Unfortunately though sometimes you get unlucky with the food, which leads me to my next point: feet and heads.

Like i said, overall when we would go out the food has been way better than I expected, except in situations like this:

Yes, a chicken head, and I'll leave it at that.