Our address

We moved into out new apartment two days ago and were without internet, so now I am posting.
We are on the 16th floor.  It is 53 square meters and costs 8,000,000VDN, about $360.

                  The address is: 
Can ho A-16-03 Toa nha The Pegasus Plaza
53-55 Vo Thj Sau
P .Quyet Thang
TP. Bien Hoa-Dong Nai
Vietnam

Some places in Vietnam are named in English. For example, the name of our building is Pegasus Plaza.  This is lucky for us because the taxi drivers understand us when we say this word, although we have to pronounce it Peg a suuuus.  Every word we try to say in Vietnamese is misunderstood, even the name of the local department store, Co.op mart.  Sounds simple doesn't it.  Well it is not.  I finally understand the reason that Asians leave off the end of English words, it is because their final letter is implosive whereas our final letter is explosive.  In other words, one does not hear the T when pronouncing Co.op mart; it is pronounced something like Cah ahb ma.  Every single word in Vietnamese is only one syllable long!!!!!!!  The word for thank you is Cam on and is pronounced as if you are saying "Come on" with a British accent.

Surprisingly, even though we are 16 stories up, it is very noisy here.  Each morning we have the pleasure of witnessing the sunrise because at dawn, the street fill with crowing roosters. This I do not mind because sunrise at 5:30AM is the best part of the day.  I usually watch the sunrise then walk around town until 9 AM at which time the weather becomes too hot.  Arin likes to go out at 3PM when it begins to cool off, then return at sunset which is 12 hours after sunrise, 5:30 PM.  We are near the equator, so this does not change seasonally.