We’re in Hanoi, Vietnam! This is one of my favorite cities in Southeast Asia—I have weird standards—and I’m happy to be here with Tzeyu! I already showed her my favorite Bánh mì (a sandwich with amazing baguette), my favorite tea house, and we ate liters of Phở—a soup with rice noodles usually beef.
Last month we spent in Bali. Even though I lived in Southeast Asia for 2.5 years, this was my first time being in Indonesia. There we tried surfing! It wasn’t that flexible, we couldn’t go to the sea any time we got free. There are different tides and we aren’t ready yet for any tides so usually the sea has 4 “perfect” hours per day when we can enjoy its waves… And these hours start early in the morning. So I had to get used1 to waking up after 6 hours of sleep to get hit by the salty water, get sunburn and “nap” for 2 more hours before work. What a wonderful life!
I’d organized a few Geoguessr parties in vas3k.club community, and these occasional parties led to a small tournament with 8 teams and 36 members. The tournament has been running for 2 weeks already and is about to end. It’s full of fun and we learned a lot about organizing events with participants across 10 time zones. As an organizer, I really hope this one ends soon; we distribute prizes, have a good rest, and prepare for the new tournament with longer deadlines—so nobody needs to risk their job to win our silly competition.
I keep studying Chinese but it never becomes easy. Writing is my Achilles' heel. I grind it with anki-maobi, and I really like this add-on but Chinese characters just don’t stick in my memory. For vocabulary, I add words from my lessons with the tutor and this works good.
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Previous version of that sentence had “I’m already used to…” but I was wrong. ↩︎
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