Một, hai, ba, yo!

Seeing as another year in my life has passed, I thought it only appropriate to distill my current adventure into numbers. (This is an exercise I did in a creative nonfiction class once. I shamelessly stole the idea from a friend's blog. Please note that not all numbers are "accurate." It is the idea of the numbers.)

Number of:

Days abroad: 110. Days in Saigon: 94. Trips I've taken: 3. Jobs: 2. Students: 65. Roommates: 2. Days off in a week: 1. People who say hello to me when I go on a walk: 15. People who laugh when I say hello back: 15. Cups of coffee a day: 2. Mysterious foods I've eaten: 12. Pounds I've gained: I don't want to know. Times I've been to the gym: 0. E-mails I've sent: 317. Times I've been sick: 5. Meals with rice: 101. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches: 64. Deaths: 2. Motobike accidents I've been in: 1. Almost accidents: 78. Motobike accidents I've seen: 1 (a surprisingly low number). People who stare at me: everyone. Postcards sent: 18. Letters sent: 2. Paychecks: 4. Dollars spent: too many. Favorite students: 4. Students I don't particularly like: 2. Vietnamese words I know: 52. Vietnamese words I say correctly: 0. Blog posts: 8. Blogs I read: 10. Books I've read: 1 (also a surprisingly low number). People in Vietnam: 86 million. People in Saigon: 7,162,864. Bugs I've killed: 2.3 million. Movies I've seen in theater: 2. Boat rides: 4. Times I've been called "madam": 88. Times I've been called "mister": 10. Days it has rained: 100. Days it has been cool: 0. Times I've thought, "I love it here": 8. Times I've thought, "I hate it here": 10. People I miss: everyone. Times I've wondered what I'm doing here: 0. Daydreams about Scotland: 22. Questions: 1,017. Answers: 2. Possibilities: countless. Years in my life: 23.

This could go on forever and I might come back to it again, but I think this is enough for now.

Note: the title of this post is a Vietnamese drinking toast. It translates as, "One, two, three, drink!"