2015-12-04
I ordered a 3rd visa extension on that Friday, the fourth day of December of 2015. That was the biggest thing that happened that day. I paid for the extension that day from the same travel agency that made me extensions in the past. I had 2 FYG classes in the evening, notes included below. My brother, Rick Arnold, wrote a message to me about perseverance found in leaders. I wrote an outline to my life in Vietnam: dates, addresses, locations, names.
My Life in Vietnam - 2012 - 11 - 12
2013 - 01 - 02 - 03 - 04 - 05 - 06 - 07 - 08 - 09 - 10 - 11 - 12
2014 - 01 - 02 - 03 - 04 - 05 - 06 - 07 - 08 - 09 - 10 - 11 - 12
2015 - 01 - 02 - 03 - 04 - 05 - 06 - 07 - 08 - 09 - 10 - 11 - 12
2016 - 01 - 02 - 03 - 04 - 05 - 06 - 07 - 08 - 09 - 10 - 11 - 12
2017 - 01 - 02 - 03 - 04 - 05 - 06 - 07 - 08 - 09 - 10 - 11
Friday, the 4th of December of 2015
By Oatmeal Joey Arnold
How-To Contact Me
2015-12-03 - Thursday - 07:13 PM - 3rd Visa Extension Receipt which was later rejected - Friday ICT
Contact Me
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Biography of My Life
1985 - 1986 - 1987 - 1988 - 1989 - 1990 - 1991 - 1992 - 1993 - 1994 - 1995 - 1996 - 1997 - 1998 - 1999 - 2000's - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009 - 2010 - 2011 - 2012 - 2013 - 2014 - 2015 - 2016 - 2017 - 2018
2019 - 01 - 02 - 03 - 04 - 05 - 06 - 07 - 08
Friday, the 4th of December of 2015 - PST - Daily journal:
All time-stamps are in Pacific Standard Time (PST) unless otherwise noted: the local-time in Vietnam was in the Indo-China Time (ICT): for five years, I lived in the ICT time-zone: ICT is 13 hours ahead of PST (in the summer):
Order a 3rd Extension
I gave the travel agency money for the extension on that Friday morning.
Ruth-Thuc Lu is the wife of a pastor of a church I would attend in Vietnam. She may have connection with the Bethel Evangelical Church.
Speaking English
12:32 AM - Nguyen Thao messaged me: "yeah. but i don't speak english well. smile emoticon. i can chat with you on fb."
Distance
12:47 AM - Sky Green messaged me: "hiji...yes..i called your friend.i known that.i very want to improve my speak english.but i live in the country,no city.it is so far distance with you.hihi... now,i only can make friend with teacher.hixhix....i don’t have condition to go to city.hihi....sorry teacher many many.... my best teacher.hihi."
Friends
03:16 AM - Mỹ Diễm Diễm sent me a friend request on Facebook.
Class Notes
04:32 AM - Class Notes - 06:00 PM ICT - Friday - Full Notes as follows:
2015-12-04 Fri 6 PM
Christmas
I think I have to be ok
I've known about Christmas for a very long time but I didn't go out to see the lights
Sometimes, I take pictures or selfies with Santa or the Christmas lights or Christmas tree
Santa Claus or Saint Nicholas
Old man: mustache and beard
Gives gifts to & for the children
His reindeer rides or drives him
He rides in a sleigh or box or cart like a car with no wheels & is pulled by the reindeer
Attached by rope
Collocation: normal (popular) way of talking: putting the right words together
Like phrasal verbs:
Take a shower: not have a shower
Chimneys have fire or fireplace
Chimneys allow smoke to escape the house
People here don't usually have them
Find them in houses, factories, restaurants, maybe some churches
He goes down the chimney with the power of like magic or something
Magic is special, like powers that can do things that are like impossible to do
Magic could like help you fly
How can Santa go down the chimney?
He throws his bed down the chimney, jumps into the chimney & lands on the bed. Later, he jumps on the bed & out of the chimney
He does this each time for the billions of houses in the world all in one night
How long would it take for Santa to visit all of the houses in the world?
One hour divided by billions of houses?
How long for one house?
He would have to be very fast to do this
He has many helpers or impostors (clones, twins, people that look like him)
They deliver the toys
Some people are paid money to sit down while looking like Santa
Why is he sitting down?
What is he waiting for?
Children come & pray or talk to him
Children sit on his lap (knees of the legs)
Children are attracted by Santa and they want to pull his beard
They ask him for gifts, toys, & candy
You have to wait in a long line
You may wait for hours to see him
I may have seen him at least once but only for like a few seconds
He asked me what I wanted & I might have said that I didn't know; and that probably ended our meeting
Have you met Santa?
Parents pay money for Santa men to come visit
Parents buy the gifts & Santa men deliver those gifts to the kids
The staff come to deliver the toys while being dressed up as Santa people
If you were in Vietnam in 2006, you would have seen me as a Santa
Santa on bikes
Stocking: the Christmas socks or bags
Long ago, people had these socks. One man would not receive gifts from Nick but did accept gifts or the gold in the socks. Maybe he didn't know it came from Nick
The poor man had three daughters.
Is Santa real?
Yes and no.
No, not exactly.
Yes, because Santa is based on Saint Nicholas, a real person from long ago.
Based on or inspired by. The story comes from Nick who died in 343 AD.
Based on, not built on
Build on: make a building taller and to add to ideas and principles and theories
Nick from Turkey
Reindeer have antlers, like horns or sticks on the heads
Horn, not horse
Candy canes are red for blood & white for purity
Canes are used by shepherds (farmers) who guide & protect sheep
Farmers harvest (grow) crops (food, plants) & raise livestock (animals)
Dig a hole. Put the seed in the hole.
Water the seed as it grows into a plant, tree, vine, or other things
Breeding: animals have more animals: reproduce: have a baby
Farmers breed animals by choosing who the parents will be
How do you know this word?
Who taught you this word?
Maybe, just by chance
I wrote the word into my dictionary or translator & it gave me this word in English: it translated it for me
Candy cane: peppermint stick: 1670: Cologne, Germany
Reindeer
Sleigh, sled
Jingle bell
Frozen; freeze; ice; cold; frost
Ice hockey
Puck: hockey ball: disc
Hockey is like soccer or football with sticks & ice
Christmas trees
Christmas lights
Stockings
Santa
Go to the church
Go out with your friends
Activities
What do we do
Food
Gifts
Christmas Day: 25th of December
Christmas Eve: evening or night before: that is the 24th
Boxing Day: 26th: for the slaves and servants or workers
Christmas = Christ + MAS
Learn English speaking, pronunciation, communication, & more.
I'm an American English Teacher. My name is Joey Arnold: for more information, please call
Ms.Tien Nguyen at 090-855-6131
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Ms.Tien Nguyen:
Facebook.com/fygroup; [email protected]
Facebook.com/joonguyen66; Facebook.com/hangmyxachtay66
Mobile: 090-855-6131
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Teacher Joey Arnold
Facebook.com/lelVN; Facebook.com/JoeyArnoldVN
JaEnglish.webs.com; [email protected]
Facebook.com/groups/OatmealEnglish
Mobile: 0168-478-5542
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Information & links:
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YouTube.com/JoeyArnoldVN
Twitter.com/JoeyArnoldVN
Tumblr.com/blog/JoeyArnoldVN
TinyChat.com/JoeyArnoldVN
WattPad.com/user/JoeyArnoldVN
Plus.Google.com/+JoeyArnoldVN
ReverbNation.com/JoeyArnoldVN
Facebook.com/groups/85USA
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My Facebook is Joey Arnold
My username: JoeyArnoldVN
Skype: JoeyArnoldVN
My Facebook:
Facebook.com/JoeyArnoldVN
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My YouTube:
YouTube.com/users/JoeyArnoldVN
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My Twitter:
Twitter.com/JoeyArnoldVN
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My Tumblr:
Tumblr.com/blog/JoeyArnoldVN
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My Facebook English Page:
Facebook.com/lelVN
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My Tiny Chat:
TinyChat.com/JoeyArnoldVN
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Additional web links as follows:
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Facebook.com/groups/OatmealEnglish
Facebook.com/groups/85USA
YouTube.com/JoeyArnoldVN
[email protected]
Facebook.com/fygroup
JaEnglish.webs.com
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I was born in the United States in the year 1985.
I've been teaching in Vietnam since 2012.
I teach English in Q.1, TP.HCM.
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Private Classes with Joey Arnold:
Fee: 500.000 VND/hour
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Class Notes
06:06 AM - Class Notes - 07:30 PM ICT - Friday - Full Notes as follows:
2015-12-04 Fri 730 PM
Can you keep up?
Challenges
Tasks
Manager
Harder than before
New product to launch
Harder than before since I started working here a year ago
Research
Culture
Familiar
Search
Find out things on my own or by myself
Your load is too heavy
Effort
Priorities
Recommend
Fascinating: exciting, wonderful, cool, interesting
To ward off or to scare demons away or to get people to leave
Deceased: dead
Altar: place for sacrifices like when you kill animals or have food for Buddha
Altars can be like plates with food on it for Buddha
Incense: fragrance with good odor or smell like spices, teas, herbs, gums
Reign: rule
Fascinated; fascinating; fascinate
Imperial: of the king or kingdom
Imperial: of the empire or kingdom
Carp fish
Celebrate
Take part in
Ancestral: ancient: of the dead people & ancestors (dead relatives of the family)
Gather: come together
Crowd around: come together
Come crowd around me
Reserve
Preserve: to keep, continue, save, hold onto
Homeland: your hometown or home country
Homeland = your land
Homeland = land you call your home
Firework or fire crackers
Fire crackers are smaller than fireworks
Pagoda, temple, church
Symbol
Amusements, entertainment
That was amusing or entertaining or funny to watch you guys react to the cockroach
Cock fight = chickens fight
They distracted me with their talking
Remember the past while preparing for the future
What do you do for Tet?
Very far, so far, quite far, or too far
It's time for me to revisit Dalat since it's been two years since my last visit in June of 2013
Relax
Consistent
Reliable: trust; safety
Graduated high school in 2004
Moved to New York for college
Independent
Why are you in this room and not in a so-called real center?
And why is this room not a real center?
If I want to enjoy my life, then why not teach at a center, make money, & enjoy my life better with more money?
Rural areas: hometown; countryside; not a big city; simple life
Spend health to gain wealth and later spend wealth to regain health
No pain, no gain
Long story
I fight with myself
Recruit
Tactics
Advertisements
Marketing
Private classroom
Why private and not public?
Subjective; opinions
Objective; eternal truth, facts that cannot change with perspective
Small; friendly
Private as in not a business
Private because it is a house and not just a business building
Rabbit trail = side topics
Stay focus or let the turtle win
Church
Lucky money
Give them the wishes, first
Cinema
Spread out
Boring
How do city people enjoy Tet?
Play cards
Renew themselves
Drink beer; have parties
When is the best time to relax?
Tet or summer
Moon holiday
Buy new clothes; burn old clothes; clean houses; go see relatives; share your year with relatives; worry about the next year
Shopping
Coffin: dead people box
Funeral
Carp fish carry old people to Heaven
They put carps on the coffins
Altar, not alter
Lucky flowers
Apricot blossom
Yellow flowers
Sunflowers
As the year comes to an end, how do you feel?
Goals
New Year Resolutions
Regret
Anxious
Start, not star
Look back to the past
Reflection
Should we forget or remember history, especially our history, as in the past, like memories, as in mistakes, experiences, stories, successes, and stuff?
If you don't learn history, you will repeat history
Asian Thanksgiving
Year of the Buffalo
06:33 AM - Thiên Thanh sent me a friend request on Facebook.
Joey Arnold Expats
11:55 AM - Blogspot - 2015-08-18 - Tuesday - 13:28 PM - DOY News - DOY News wrote: "....Joey Arnold Expats: Joey Arnold is a an American expats in Saigon that nobody understands. He goes from pillar to pole trying to feel relevant and claims that he is an English teacher. A lot of people have given him different names, and he had been blocked severally different expats Facebook page. A lot of expats (even some locals, but this is not about locals) are in Joey Arnold group. These sets of expats will ask you where they could get salt and fish in a district in Saigon. They will ask you how to go from district 7 to the airport for 30,000 Vietnamese dong ($1), a 14.2/17Km journey...Surprised. These are the group of Joey Arnold, they don't even know it....."
Bizarre Man Saigoneer
12:22 PM - Blogspot - 2014-03-28 - Friday - 10:11 AM XCT - Saigoneer - Written by Anthony Morreale - ".....Two YouTube music videos, in particular, do the work of sublimating the tension of our presence. I know what you might be thinking and no, I‘m not referring to Facebook poltergeist and Bizzaro Realm English teaching doppelganger Joey ‘The-Original-Oatmeal’ Arnold and his more than 5,000 uploaded videos. I’m referring to the Vietnamese instant classic “Anh Không Đòi Quà” and the incredibly uplifting #SAIGONISHAPPY version of Pharrel’s “Happy”....."
First Three Years in Vietnam
12:39 PM - Blogspot - Outline of where I lived, the dates, the places, the addresses. I wrote the following:
Friday, December 4, 2015
First Three Years in Vietnam...
1985-02-11, Monday: born: Forest Grove, Washington, Oregon, USA
2012-11-29, Thursday: 12:30 PM noon: arrived in Vietnam via the Hanoi Airport
2012-11-29, Thursday: 14:00 PM: arrived in New Star in Bac Ninh
Assisted Filipinos Joy Sanchez & the other girl in classes Thursday to Monday, the 3rd of December, for a total of five days; was also staying in a hotel during those days until Tuesday morning, the 4th of December.
2012-12-04, Tuesday: 11 AM: moved to restaurant Papa Foods in Bac Ninh, Vietnam
2013-02-10: Q.Tân Bình, TP.HCM
2013-02-17: Q.8, HCM
2013-04-08: Saigon Backpacker's Hostel, Phạm Ngũ Lão, Q.1, HCM
2013-05-01: Q.Bình Thạnh, HCM
2013-08-15: Q.Tân Bình, HCM
2013-08-20: Q.12, HCM
2013-09-20: Q.Tân Phú, HCM
2013-11-15: Q.1 & Chùa Lá, Q.Gò Vấp, HCM
2014-03-20: Q.3, HCM
2014-04-01: Thu Duc & Tan Binh
2014-05-01: Remi Cafe: Q.10
2014-06-01: Mr. Ribs, Q.4 & Q.7
2014-10-10: Old Ink, Phạm Ngũ Lão, Q.1, HCM
2013-07-02
Broke glasses frame in a bike crash in Binh Thanh near my room of that time
2014-10-08, Wednesday: 06:20 AM:
Circle K Staff called the police on me. I bought noodles. I taught them English. They said they liked me before. That day, they were busy with work. I tried to say something to them in English in order to help them with their English but they took it the wrong way. They told the police I was stealing, harassing, & doing bad things at that Circle K store, the headquarters, in District 4.
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Addresses:
Where I have lived in Vietnam:
2012-11-29, Thursday, 14:00 PM
2012-12-04, Tuesday, 11:00 AM
Hotel: Bac Ninh, Vietnam
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2012-12-04, Tuesday, 11:00 AM
2013-01-15 apx
Papa Foods Restaurant: Bac Ninh, Vietnam
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2013-02-17, Thursday, 09:00 AM
2013-04-08, Monday, 09:00 AM
Kathy Duong's house:
753 Nguyễn Duy, phường 12, Quận 8
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2013-04-08, Monday, 09:00 AM
2013-05-01 apx
Saigon Backpacking Hostel
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2013-05-01, Thursday apx
2013-08-15 apx after Cambodia visit
191/37b Võ Duy Ninh, phường 22 Quận Bình Thạnh, thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, Việt Nam
2013-09
2013-11
553/2/19 Lũy Bán Bích, Phú Thạnh, Tân Phú, thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, Việt Nam
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2013-11
2014-03
FYG: Fellowship Youth Group: Mr. Bean, his father, & Luc Dinh:
Phòng 7: 544 Võ Văn Kiệt, phường Cô Giang, Quận 1, thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, Việt Nam
2014-05
2014-06 apx
Dai Trinh's neighbor's room for rent for about a month
954/13/last house on the right, or 953/23/last house to the left, P.6, Q.Tan Binh HCM Vietnam.
2014-05
2014-08
Mr.Ribs BBQ Restaurant:
Address: 1656b đường Vĩnh Khánh, Phường 8, Quận 4, TP.HCM
Q.Tân Phú: Saigoniz Cuisine: 6 - 8 PM Sundays
135 Nguyễn Quý Anh, P.Tân Sơn Nhì, Q.Tân Phú, HCM
Tiên Phạm: [email protected]: 090-665-6878
Bi Già: [email protected]: 096-688-2450
Belle Lùn: [email protected] skype: kllynx87
Here is an outline & summary of my first three years in Vietnam, a southeast country under China & east of India, Thailand, & Cambodia. My name is Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal, as in Joseph Scott Arnold as seen on my birth certificate, born 1985, February 11th, Monday at maybe about 7 AM, at the only hospital in Forest Grove city, Washington County, Oregon state, United States of America USA, to parents mother Marilyn Kathleen Morehead & father Donald Melvin Rasp Arnold.
Jetty Ha Broken
01:36 PM - Blogspot
Different Classes
11:33 PM - Blogspot - I wrote the following:
ifferent Classes....
Different English classes provides different benefits for the different students with their individual & unique needs at their own pace, style, & level. Classes are customizable. Class curriculum meets the demands of the learners. Here is an example of some of the classes: students may want to study & practice the following things:
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- Listening
- Speaking & pronunciation
- Reading
- Writing & grammar
- Job interviews: work related things: careers
- Life skills; majors, subjects, topics; and more
- special things like IELTS, TOEIC, TEFL, etc.....
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Students can decide what to study in their classes. We can negotiate. We can decide together. The students of each class can vote for what they want to study & focus on. Each class aims to help the students towards finding careers & success in life. My focus is in helping people become the best kind of people they can become for themselves & for all of humanity in the best ways possible.
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Joey Arnold
American English Teacher
Call me. Learn English. My mobile phone number:
SDD: 01 684 785 542
Don't Worry
04:05 PM - Rick Arnold wrote: "Don't worry about what other people say. Think about Thomas Edison. He tried 15000 different elements till he found the right one to use in the light bulb, tungsten. Probably everyone told him to give up. And Noah, for 100 years hearing people make fun of him saying he didn't know what he was doing, even his family, I'm sure. All you can say to the people who talk bad about you is- thanks for your feedback. God bless you. And I guarantee they will never bother you again. Like Jesus when he was accused by the Jews, didn't respond to them, because he didn't have to respond to the stupid and dishonest things they said about him. And remember, the Jewish leaders were jealous of Jesus and his following. These people are probably jealous of you, because they don't have the friends and ability to get along with people like you do. Also, the hardest people to get along with are that way because they are hurting inside and so they try to make other people as miserable as they are. But no one can change our attitude in life unless we let them." 06:56 PM: "Yeah. Laughing is better than crying."
Timeline
Published on 2019-08-05 - Monday - 12:00 AM PST LMS JA
2019-07-27 - Saturday - 11:00 PM - December of 2015
2019-08-03 - Saturday
2019-08-04 - Sunday
2019-08-04 - Sunday - 10:13 PM - 4th of December of 2015
2019-08-05 - Monday
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