my autobiography - U.C week 2 - the Manor

Week 2 started with a terrible shame. During that week I was volunteering for the World IT Forum in Hanoi. I had to drop some classes at school but on Thursday afternoon, I could go for U.C class since my friend agreed to help me out on the work for that. However, since my cell was out of battery and I had to run around for a while to borrow a helmet, I was nearly 10 minutes late... And surprisingly enough, I even didn't know how much seriously late I was since the cell was off already. Right the moment I opened the class door, the teacher come out and tell me to go home right away without hearing any of my sayings lol then I was in real confuse and kinda like lost. My friend who took me back to school already left, my fone is off and my only purpose to do all the things and all the way that day was terribly rejected. I felt like all my efforts to come there was meaningless. If I didn't come back school and continued the work with air-conditioned environment and friends around, I wouldn't be that alone and lost. Then my childishness became serious when I didn't know what to do except for going directly to the door again and knock it, more politely than the first time and ask for a phone from my friends there. Then, the teacher became really angry. I never felt that angriness in him. He yelled at me to go away, he told me how much terribly I disturbed the class... I was so so so much ashame at that time and until now I still feel so much embarassing...

That's all for the shame. Now that I learnt a lesson of being on time with American teacher, I always try to come to UC class soon. Ironically when I come to class soon this week, he came late lol of course he has his reason, that is because the N.G.O panelists have some trouble finding the place. But he refused to listen to my reason, which drove me crazy that day and I made my self a fool lol I was too immature after all. I'm trying now to fix it, the lateness in all classes. I hope this would never happen again.

Next was the field trip to The manor.
For those who doesn't know, The Manor is a complex of modern appartments and villas. It has Western achitecture and Western style of management and rent too. I asked a moto-taxi driver working in the region about the price of houses in there. He said the average rent for an appartment of 130m2 in the two highest buidings is around VND 8 BILLIONs OMG ...
And the price for the villas are cheaper, around 5 BILLIONs. And interestingly people who owns the appartment hardly sell them LOL They keep it as the housing price is increasing all the time, except for some tiny decrease. And since few people sell houses there, the price at the Manor is always high. They only rent it. What so funny is that when our class come, intending to go see the development and urbanization that we're studying at class thru this buidings complex. However, the security refused to let us in. Maybe we're too crowed then we started splitting up and try to get in in all entrances. We tried around 4 entrances but kept being chased out by the security and in the final one we get in the middle of the complex without any prevention.
But we can't be happy for long. The security once came out. They said it's their duty to keep the place secured which means ensuring no body wanders around the place or takes photos to protect the residents there. Basically, I think they are so right! hahaha if I lived there, for sure I would hate people wandering around and take photos of my place! It's privacy, right? And basically, only a few of us can't get in, many others go around and even go up to some buildings' top to get best view LOL And finally when the security came out the last time, they stood there talking to some of us about the place comfortably while the others go around without any prevention hahaha

After the trip, I came home and told my parents. We discussed and what so funny was that except for the feeling of luxury living in a Western styled place, we couldn't figure out what more interest people there. Last year the Manor was so famous in all newspapers since the residents there protested the management for many unreasonable fees. Also, there're some problems with quality of the appartment although it was quite newly built. I also noticed that there're merely no Vietnamese shops and traditional markets around. I believe normal Vietnamese can't live without markets. Especially in places that are crowded, markets are essential. Living the life depending totally in supermarket is no good, stuffs sold at supermarket can't compare with things in the normal market about price and also about the freshness.

I have been living in a 40m2 appartment in one of the oldest building in Hanoi for 15 years. If you ever come to my neigborhood, you'll see how different they are! In the Manor, I was very much astonished. I never see such a place in Hanoi.
It was like I was walking in an European street. Hardly sees anyone. I don't know when will we be able to own a house like that haha This government is so poor just like the whole nation. My parents devoted for the government for more than 20 years and all they get back is an old 40m2 appartment... But I love my neigborhood. It's old and overcrowded but there's a market selling all kinds of things from the high quality to the cheapest ones in the center of the neighborhood, several hospitals in just around 1km, 5 schools for kids aged 3-15 and hundreds of household business hohoho What I treasure most is in my neighborhood, basically people know each other's family and being very much helpful and caring. I love it that every morning when I go to school, I could hear people saying Hi! to each other warmingly. I believe that is just what people at new appartment complex can never buy LOL