Living and Teaching English in Vietnam

越南人一生

乔斯·伯雷特（Joss Berrett）

女人从河内骑自行车出售橙子。

It’s 6:30 a.m. and ten minutes ago, I was asleep, dreaming about a beach, a boat and some beer. Now, I am on my feet, listening to the early morning lament of a woman selling bread on my street. I may be in bed now, but in 45 minutes I will be in front of a classroom, wearing with an orange tie, ready to teach English to Vietnamese school children with the aid of a few scrunched up pieces of paper and the type of enthusiasm which can only derive from hopeless love.

三年前，我到达这里，抓着一份TESL证书，准备赚钱。虽然我从未想象过六个月的时间更多，但我并没有指望留在河内。

I ride to work on bicycles. In winter, the journey is gloomy and frigid. In summer though, it is the nicest time of the day and the Hanoians know it. There is a market at the end of my street and if I wanted, I could take my pick of fresh cut pig leg, pineapple, or lychees sitting in a basket. My colleagues buy loads of apple-pears and then slice them up for us all to enjoy. There is something sacred about gathering in the morning over shared fruit.

When I first came here, a friend set me up with a job interview. The director of the school was easy going, and ready to see me teach. Could I start the next evening? I spent the rest of that day buying supplies and marveling at how, at any moment, something is happening, from the man selling handmade clay figurines, to the lilting speech of gossiping flower women.

住在河内

在河内，现实和浪漫毫不犹豫地编织在一起。当交通放松时，至少在您的脑海中不可能唱歌。在这些时候，离您家中的地方很远，这是一种巨大的兴奋和美丽。当送货员盯着我时，我向他挥手。如果我急忙，我会及时上学，享受匆忙的冰咖啡，而我摸索着微型塑料椅，分享课程计划。但是，我的心情通常取决于交通。有时候，我到达了空心，干燥，肮脏和咳嗽，努力摇晃河内尖峰时刻。1000辆不耐烦的摩托车发出的声音可以比作巨大的瀑布。交通本身与一条河没有什么不同，在小街上聚集了势头，沿途捡起流浪的碎片，直到它是一种可怕的洪流，这不会停止考虑任何事情。我已经看到骑手走了下来，吞下了，几分钟后才从竞争中摇动。

Scooters, motocycles, and bikes coexist in Hanoi.

教学和演奏

The first lesson is the hardest. I remember walking into the classroom and receiving a boisterous reception from 25 children, all of them eager to clutch pieces of my clothing and chat about English football. A support teacher sat in the corner marking homework. I went over to her, babbling nonsense about what my方法to this lesson was going to be. I had over-planned it by about two and 1/2 half hours—that is what new teachers tend to do. The support teacher did not understand a word I was saying and the children all clambered around me: “你的名字是什么，你已经结婚了，你是你的 - 你不是你爱越南人吗？你的女朋友叫什么名字，她怎么了？”我学到的比孩子学得多。首先，我怀疑自己已经发现了自己的激情 - 即兴演奏，精心计划和戏剧的奇怪混合。

这些天，我看到新老师到达现场：急切的面孔，刚从飞机上崭露头角，在等待上课开始时紧张地抓着工作箱。这份工作三年，有时我觉得自己是一个老黑客。曾经让我呆了几个小时的课程从记忆中融合在一起，从备用工具包中进行了几次练习，也许是我正在尝试的新事物。孩子们每天都设法让我感到惊讶。当我今天走进第一堂课时，一个认真的男孩剃光头，少数神奇宝贝卡在门口面对我。他想问我为什么我首先要离开澳大利亚。他说：“他们有袋鼠。”我不能马上回答他。我不确定当您发现一些特别的呼唤或愿景时，我是否可以说出这种感觉。也许这只是一种兴奋，充满了日常生活的碎片，例如一个漂亮的女士的害羞微笑，或者是卖给我的男人的脾气暴躁的承认phonoodle soup. So perhaps I will just tell the little boy that I have found “Cuộc sống,”在越南语中的意思是life。

女孩在宝塔祈祷。

Joss Berrett宁愿读书。尽管如此，他经常发现借口跳上飞机，尤其是当他无法发音他正在飞来的城市的名称时。他是一位敬业的音乐家，老师，也是万物的爱好者。