29. Stay out of comfort zone

I’d like to start by asking you

How many of you here and out there

Can travel by yourself

I mean

You do not go with your Dad or

Your Mom or your loved one.

Or

How many of you ever stay in the

Strange house

I mean

Not in the hotel, or any other room that you feel pretty safe and alright

 Andyou have to eat tons of street food to survive

And never thought that would eat that much

But I did

It was a month ago

When I had a perfect chance to travel

From where I am standing here to some places

that I have not been before

Actually

I did not go alone

I travelled with an American boy

His name is Sam

Who I just recently met and made friends

We travel by his motorbike that he rented

At that time

We know where we would go

We planed things

But I myself never thought

That I would stay out in a strange house

I just think

I have to stay in a hotel or homestay or somewhere else

That I feel OK

First day

We stayed in an office

An office I stay was Sam’s recently friend’s father office

I felt a little bit weird and unsafe

Because

You never know what is gonna happen to you

During the night sleep

I was fearful that I would be killed

or robbed when I walk out in the street

When you are a traveller

You would never know what you did not expect that then happen to you

For the next couple days

We passed the time in a Hang’s Online student house

And then

We spent three nights in a row in a house

That produces cigarette

The room so cigarette-y

Honestly

Those guys I stay with is completely strange

I was kind of scared

But at the same time

I tried to keep things valuable beside me like

Money or phone when I am sleeping

I also ate tons of street food from Da Lat

to Nha Trang, to Tuy Hoa, Quang Ngai

Quang Nam, Da Nang, Hue, my hometown

Quang Tri

Those food are really amazing

Luckily I didn’t get any trouble from eating street food

For 10 days

I tasted some of the amazing food

All sort of food

From noodle to fried pancake

From fish to chicken

From sweet sauce to stinky sauce

From seafood to BBB

Wow

Some of dish I ate are weird combination

Like eating beef with seafood

Can you imagine that

This will cause your belly dancing

I taste all

I did not afraid anything any more

To be quite honest with you

Before I travel

I was a 4 months vegetarian

But when I am travelling to some place

You can not expect that you would find

A vegetarian food

So to fill up my stomach

I painfully have to eat beef and seafood

I was scared

That I have to break the rule to survive

One thing you never thought that you would

Step out of vegetarian life forever

I myself rarely talk to people because of my strong voice

During the trip

I also talk to local people and foreigners

Even my Vietnamese accent is really strong

At first

Most of them are quite confused with my accent

But I had to speak slow

You know

All I want is getting food

So I had to speak out word clear

It turns out that they could hear what I said

Most of them Vietnamese

For forgeiners

I have to try to express myself to share my

Vietnamese food experience to them

To introduce how amazing my country to them

I came to that point so far

That I stay overnight in a house you feel fearful

Or you have to survive by breaking the rules you set

That you would never eat meat again

Or You have to speak to strange people

All that weird, awkard experience

After all

I feel amzing

And I think

After this trip

I definitely feel I am more grown up

That I step out of confort zone to do

all those things above

One last thing I would like to give you

Is

There is nothing grows in confort zone

Even it is a nice place

Thank you for listening.