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lucasalves:
sorry you mean working in Vietnam or other countries?? cos if you are saying people can work in Vietnam with student visa that's a big NO..

Not true. I don't know if it's illegal but I know lots of students wh are teaching part time and making good money

I have to pause now and go to church. It's African praise African style today!

I'll try to continue later.

Inside one of the free buses. Felt weird taking pictures
Oh my apartment has free swimming pool. and stuff

Remember the sugarcane juice I talked about?

One of the lake sides where you can seat out

There are football fields, golf course, etc here

C tower car section on the other side

One part of the bike section for just C tower

One of the bicycle section for just the C tower

You remember how when I first came, Hanoi seemed great, well it's nothing compared to this place.

No traffic, clean smooth roads, more cars, more trees and parks, for the first time, it really feels yankeeish. I had to learn how to use a whole lot of thingy and which bus to take and when and what section to park my bike, etc

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Study area

This one is refrigerator

Reception

Bedroom

Daytime

My view at night

Living room and balcony

Kitchen and dining area

Westbay

Neighborhood

It's all green and clean here

My neighborhood

Picture break....
Welcome to Ecopark

PS: Don't worry pictures are coming.....

Still on jobs....

By Mid June, things changed drastically and fast!

I started getting replies, calls, interviews at least twicw a week...(I got them all by the way) and job offers. It happened sooooo fast!

One of the interviews I went for way in a place called Ecopark. After I went there, I fell in love with the place so I started applying specifically to that province. It's a one hour drive from hanoi.

Thos guys said they'll get back to me in one week. Before one week elapsed, I had gotten two job offers from that same area and had accepted one.

When they finally replied and asked me to start, It felt good replying that I had gotten a better offer.

The best part is the one bedroom apartment it came with and it was just a Monday to friday job. Damn! 4:30 minutes a day. Since I already had a bike, they agreed to give me fuel stipends monthly and free lunch in school

That's not all, within this period, I also got another full time weekend job which was almost equivalent to the salary of the full time job in Ecopark!. But it was in hanoi. After weighing it careful, I accepted it because I'll be making double, I have a bike, there are free shuttle buses that run from Ecopark to hanoi so it was a win win. Stressful maybe but worth it and definitely not as stressful as the useless job I had back home where I did my job and still had to do other people's job yet wasn't appreciated.

Sorry for digressing jare, y'all need to leave the country and see how things are done. I'm not saying it's all rosy here but definitely much better.

Anyways, it really felt sad leaing 2 of my jobs. One was easy cos I had just started. One was sad to see me leave but they all agreed I was lucky and needed to go, the other school threw me a sendforth party. I'm a cry baby and it took a lot not to cry. Lol.

JOBS

When I came in, I already had a job offer but I rejected it cos the pay was I think 8 dollars an hour, no accomodation and it was in a somewhat rural area. Now 8 dollars an hour may be good for a start especially if you don't have experience. You can save at least 500-600 dollars monthly but then you can get much more.

After rejecting the job, the lockdown began so I was sorta stuck. This is where your BTA comes to help. We were on lockdown for a month or so. Can't even remember again. Lol

I started teaching online and few one on ones. The salary wasn't great but it was enough to get by plus I was learning.

Immediately after the lockdown, I went full out again and started sending out CVs. Honestly, things were slow at first, between May and June, I got lots of part time jobs enough to sustain me but it wasn't easy and I'll tell you why.

Now depending on the part time job and number of hours offered, you can have just enough or much more than enough. Just enough being enough for food, rent and some savings. At one schools, I taught just 2 hours a week and 2 hours private lesson at the $18 per hour. At another center, I taught 3 hours a week at same rate, and then at another for same rate 3 times a week. This was just enough for me. I spent most mornings sleeping and watching movies on Netflix and honestly it was cool at first but like they say, I no come Lagos come count bridge. I kept applying everyday though but things were slow especially in May and beginning of June

Hey guys, its's been a while and for good reasons too. I don't even know where to start from....

First off, big shout outs to Azubix for taking time to do research, get more info and share with the group. Bless up and more grease to your elbow.

Second, to the niaralander who I know would want to stay anon, thanks for trusting me...it's been 3 months and counting. Thanks. More on this later.

Now to updates......it's been 4 wonderful months of staying in Hanoi, vietnam and it has been a great experience. I'll start with the old and new jobs....

It would be more than enough.

Rent an apartment. Hostels are for backpackers

Grrr8:
@ WhyNa

I have this desire to spend the duration of waiting for NYSC call up in another country. Vietnam to be precise because it's said to be a cheap destination compared to UK/US. I am 22 year old and plan to go there alone.

I budget about 1m (3k usd) for a period of 6 months to a year.

How possible is this, because their visa is 3 months max for tourist visa. If I can renew my visa while I am still in their country would 3k usd be enough for 6months stay?

I would like to have a break down on rent, transportation and feeding for people on budget. Like, the cheats I could use to live on that budget for that period of time. Like hostels or church where I can stay... uno things like that.

My main aim is just to clear my head and focus on self building and to cure my depression. I will be spending most of my time in a cafe gaining skills during the week then use the weekend for tourism.

NB: I am using a new account for privacy concerns.

Richdee1:
cc: Whyna

The business aspect I can't speak for.


The American accent, I've said it before. I have African friends here who have not so good accents but they have full time jobs

Gentlerespect76:
How sure are you about this news?
Please stop, what you have done to this thread is madness. You need to stop with your negative vibes. PLEASE STOP. THE PEOPLE ON THIS THREAD ARE NOT HERE FOR THAT!

The news is authentic

SkyOne11:
Please, stop this madness

https://www.nairaland.com/5912465/seven-nigerians-arrested-5.2m-scam/1

We're saying the visa situation for Nigerians isn't favourable and now this?

saintbillion:
meet kiki my new pet

Kiki
Does he love you
Or is he stalling
Before he cooks you