lazin' around china beach

so we had an agonizingly long train ride into danang and we're currently staying in between danang and hoi an at a place called china beach which basically has nothing but 15,000 dong bottles of rum (which is just under a dollar i believe) and a lovely beach. i now know i indeed can get sunburnt.

we're staying at a guesthouse called hao's place and mr. hao is some crazy shit, he tosses out swear words better than me. the place is interesting, its got lizards all over the walls and everyone's just hella lazing around. and for your information, the laziness is extremely infectious and i barely know what im typing about right now cause its just after noon, hot and im only 1/4 functioning. im currently sitting in an internet cafe in hoi an waiting for a dress to be made. hoi an is just full of tailor shops and you can get all sorts of clothes and shoes made here its fantastic. however y'all should be impressed cause they've got some pimp coats here that you can get made for only like $30 but im resisting! instead im getting a dress for $7,not bad eh? i figure its more practical that a wool coat.

by the way, in case you havent noticed there is absolutely zero continuity, rhyme or reason in this post, im just straight up mindlessly rambling. and so i'll continue. all my clothes are dirty, im always dirty and there's practically a beach in my bed. i think im seriously turning into a straight up hobo! but anyway, all there is to do in china beach is lie on the beach, and drink. people are always down at the beach at nite drinking beer and cheap rum. on one of the nites a bunch of local girls who looked quite young and wasted came around and told us theyre 89-100 years old and had just flown in from the moon. no joke, it was wierd.

yesterday a bunch of us came into hoi an to do some shopping and eating which was good. we had a good motorbike/scooter gang going on with me and linn hanging off the backs of the bikes; im sure we looked smokin' hot. johnny couldnt make it cause he had a whole bottle of rum to himself the nite before but he's still alive and kickin'. (and im aware i may seem slightly disoriented via this text but i assure you i havent had a single drink,its only noon! i think it's just china beach syndrome.)

and last nite just down the beach from us there was the wierdest party of all time. it was a bunch of japanese tourists, who arrived on something called the 'peace boat' which just cruises around the world, and a whole slew of locals and they told me they were "fire camping". basically it looked like sorta psychotic cult prancing around a giant bonfire on the beach in a giant circle. someone gave me their torch and i pranced around that fire too. there's always someone in the middle of the giant circle dancing and then basically everyone else copies them so its like synchronized dancing. good ol' irish ed decided to have a go and got right there in the middle of that circle and had everyone mimicking his crazy dance moves. it was pretty much the wierdest thing you couldever see. i'll have to post pictures later cause i am just doing a shit job describing absolutely anything and everything right now.

oh! i wanted to note, the area where we're living is really wierd in that all along the road are stores that sell massive stone sculptures of like lions and buddhas and mermaids and shit. it's actually seriously creepy. but alright i wont torture you all any longer cause i can barely comprehend what i just typed and im attempting to edit this shit but i cant even so i apologize. dont give up on me just yet! im getting outta here tomorrow by nite bus and its just gonna suck so bad that i already told everyone im going to be crying half the time. and john's leavin' me high and dry for laos tomorrow so i wont be able to inform you all of what he's up to for a while, not sure when. and so for now im with my swedes and 2 irish boys and im gonna have to extend my visa cause my 2 week stay in vietnam is now somehow stretching past the one month mark.