Be still my beating heart.

So haven't blogged in a while and I feel you deserve to know the crazy happenings of my life in the last 2 months.

You will have to bear with me because I've been partying a lot recently and I think I've killed a few of my brain cells. Ahhh I didn't need them anyway!

So the first thing I can remember doing in the last two months is eating snake. This doesn't sound that weird at first but it will when I tell you that it was killed in front of us. Now I understand a few of you reading maybe be vegetarian (then acceptable to look down on me) OR think it's cruel BUT I'm pretty sure the chickens you 'ethical' eaters eat are probably kept in the same conditions as the snakes. ANYWAY rant over.

So the snake...was bought out in a bag. At first they bought out an effing Komodo dragon lizard thing!!! But there was no way I was eating that. That was too much for my heart to handle. I kind of love lizards a little. The waiter took the snake out of a bag, held it on a chopping board, then took a massive meat cleaver and whacked it off. Next - no messing about - the guy took a knife and cut out the heart STILL BEATING and dropped it into a glass of vodka.

"Who wants this then?" They said.

"Let's play fives for it" Steve replied. (aka BIG DOG - a self given name)

Yes we were playing a game to see who got the heart. Rich won! And I could see in his eyes he was excited to the MAX! not.

When Facebook stops being a bastard I'll upload the video and the photos. The video's amazing because Rich's face actually goes through about 7 different emotions after swallowing the still beating heart. We then continued on to drink the blood and bile (which by the way is the most disgusting thing I've ever put in my mouth).

Snake tastes like chicken of course.

The next thing worth mentioning is my awesome trip to Dalat! Me, Eileen and Jamie (two girls I know, who work at another school) went to Dalat primarily to participate in a bit of Canyoning! This is basically where you make your way down a canyon/gorge by walking, abseiling, swimming, jumping off cliffs...

It was amazing. We did 3 abseils down into the river, slid down natural water slides, which were so much fun! And jumped off a small cliff - which scared the crap out of me. Not that great with jumping of high things. The day before hired bikes and drove around Dalat. It's amazing. SO SO beautiful, so much green. Also pretty cold! Had little taster of what it will be like to return to the Northern Hemisphere.

Next came the ending of our contract. Me and Sophie had been talking about tattoos but we decided that Wednesday would be the day. Sophie went first, and because she was a tattoo virgin I wanted to take pictures of her experience. I was second and my tattoo took considerably less time but MY JESUS GOD IT HURT. Like 10 times more than my first tattoo. Maybe it had something to do with it a needle piercing into my achilles heel!!! Definitely a memorable experience and now I can remember my time in Vietnam forever with my little lady in her Ao Dai (Vietnamese traditional clothing).

Although it is in the most annoying area for my newfound love for Vietnamese nightclubs. People keep bloody kicking it. My new love has stemmed from Ladies Nights. Saigon has a Ladies Night pretty much very night. Free alcohol is very tempting!!! My friends took me to a new club I hadn't encountered before called 'X Club'. It's amazing fr two reasons.

One: There's a dance floor. Vietnamese clubs are very famous for having no where to dance because people sit around and drink bottles of spirit. PLUS the dance floor flashes.

And two: Two's the best reason. They have fish tanks IN THE WALL!!! yes, it's awesome.

So it's my last week in Saigon before I travel for 3 months. I'm off to Cambodia with 3 south african girls I've met recently. They are very awesome and I'm pretty excited. Matt's staying in Vietnam because he has another job teaching for a friend's new school. I'll probably meet him in Hanoi so we can travel down Vietnam together. I'm sure I'll get into some funny situations which will be happy reading for you. Also my sister, Kathryn, is meeting me in Thailand for a bit! YAY.

Love to you all.

Peace out!