Home Stay on The Mekong Delta

Up early again and I'm off on a two day, one night adventure in to the Mekong Delta. The first day we spent exploring the sights and workings of the local Chau Doc fishing Village and Cham Muslim Community. Yet again I had the pleasure of being dressed up in very unflattering local dress. Basically covered from head to toe in bellowing material. Very Unflattering, really bloody ugly!
The fish farm is under the floor of a floating house and the fish are fed on a very smelly rice meal made there are then... Lucky woman who fell in live with a fish farmer! The smell almost made me sick and I wonder how anyone could live there. But each to their own.
At the Cham Village I got to sit and watch the kids learn the local traditions, language and scripture from the Karan. These little bodies all sitting there, wrapped tight in the scalfs and layers of clothing, boys on one side, girls to the other. They were more curious about me than the teacher and it made for a hard day of teaching.
On a bus and we were off to Can Tho. Another Mekong Delta town, where I would go to meet my homestay family. Along the way we passed lush green rice fields and conical shaped hats of the women working that are so typical of Vietnam. It's the start of the wet season and boy did it rain. Sharp, hard, heavy rains that saturated the grounds and anyone brave enough to be outside.
Stopping off at a incense factory I watched a lady roll bamboo sticks into a paste of sandalwood and sawdust. In a day, one lady can make up to 50 thousands sticks. The smell was amazing and reminded me so much of my brother Daniel, it made me homesick.
Sleeping away the trip on the bus was easy as the rain pelted down against the window and I think finally I'm catching up on my lost sleep!!
The Kids in the car were all from Vietnam and the long trip was starting to make the natives restless. So naturally the boys ganged up on the girls and started the usual game of..." I've got something of yours and I'm not giving it back"..NAnanannanaaa!!!
What the boys didn't realize was that the girls had one advantage...Me!!
I was sitting behind them. Much stronger and bigger than them I was able to wrestle them much easier than the two wee girls.
So the games began.....Well, until the adults to us to behave and then the questions came....Age, Rank, Relationship, family.......Lalalalalallalaaaaaaaaa...
Finally we arrived in Can Tho and I was picked up by Houng...My homestay Dad....