Samstag, 18. August 2007
06.08.
ihmsen, 11:37h
Yesterday I went to vietnamese wedding. One of our animal keepers married and they had a huge party in his garden.
But it was really strange, because it was unlike every other wedding I’ve seen in my life, it just lasted for two hours, at 19.30h the party was already over (I was told, the guests arrive in waves and we were the last wave). We arrived, sat down and the fiance came and drank xeo with us, the traditonal vietnamese rice wine, which tastes like rocket fuel.
Later every 5 minutes another vietnamese came and also drank a shot of rice wine with us. So we managed to get pretty drunk in a relative short time, till we finally fled to the tea table, where everyone took the obligatory green tea after dinner.
This was actually the only highlight in my week, because the rest of my time I’m pretty bored.
It’s like living on an island and all I can do to distract me is work or read one of my four book I brought with me or borrowed from our bookshelf. I even read Effi Briest, which is one of the most boring books I’ve ever read in my life.
Okay, I admit, I’m a bit annoyed, especially because it’s raining at the moment. So my homesickness is joined by the rain to depress me even worse.
But it was really strange, because it was unlike every other wedding I’ve seen in my life, it just lasted for two hours, at 19.30h the party was already over (I was told, the guests arrive in waves and we were the last wave). We arrived, sat down and the fiance came and drank xeo with us, the traditonal vietnamese rice wine, which tastes like rocket fuel.
Later every 5 minutes another vietnamese came and also drank a shot of rice wine with us. So we managed to get pretty drunk in a relative short time, till we finally fled to the tea table, where everyone took the obligatory green tea after dinner.
This was actually the only highlight in my week, because the rest of my time I’m pretty bored.
It’s like living on an island and all I can do to distract me is work or read one of my four book I brought with me or borrowed from our bookshelf. I even read Effi Briest, which is one of the most boring books I’ve ever read in my life.
Okay, I admit, I’m a bit annoyed, especially because it’s raining at the moment. So my homesickness is joined by the rain to depress me even worse.
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