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

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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:
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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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1. Listening
2. Speaking & pronunciation
3. Reading
4. Writing & grammar
5. Job interviews: work related things: careers
6. Life skills; majors, subjects, topics; and more
7. 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."