Settled in

Tomorrow is the first day of school!  I think we are ready to go.  We bought a few books today and every thing looks neat and tidy.  We'll take a taxi tomorrow, but then it is motorbike time!  I've gotten comfortable on the 110cc or so semi-automatic (shift but no clutch).  We just have to practice riding with Janet on back.  I can skip the big roads and take the road that circles the lake, so it is a nice drive.  Nice except for the cars that drive and park on the one lane road.  We can get everything we need within 10 minutes on the bike.
This is our lovely apartment:

We've almost unpacked, but we haven't spent much time at home.  Eventually the suitcases will go into hiding.

We've also been doing some shopping, both at the local Fivi-Mart and on the street.  Fivi-Mart is for middle class Vietnamese and there is one sort of at the end of our street.  The street food is much more fun to buy.
At Fivi-Mart you can get eggs, but not just chicken eggs.

Fivi-Mart also sells frozen squid and fish.

The prices aren't bad, but they don't compare to the street vendors. $1.10 bag of veggies:

or $9 for 1kg - 2.2lb of live fresh water shrimp.

A few escaped onto the side walk but were quickly scooped up and put back into my bag.  I also had a few jump out of the pot and off the counter while I was washing the side walk dust off of them.  The vein of this shrimp is on the bottom - between the legs.  Their shell is also very thin and it was a pain to prep them.  We also got some beef - about $1.50-2.50 per pound.  It was the leanest beef I've ever seen, but that also made it a little bit chewy.  There is a farmers market close by that I learned about tonight so we will be headed there in the future.

The view from our large front windows is lovely.

Along with my reflection, you can see all the lights across the lake where the fancy part of town and our school is.