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Hanoi Story(2) After one and half hour, I noticed I had had no power to think with a calm mind. I should say I was confused. I wanted to take a rest in a coffee shop there. Although there were several coffee shops, all the store didn't have an air conditioner. I really needed somewhere with it. I found a hotel. The first floor was air conditioned. When I stepped into the hotel, someone shouted to me in Vietnamese which I didn't understand. The voice was from a guy sitting on the chair near the entrance. He was a gatekeeper. There was no way to communicate with him except for body languages. Fortunately, I found a female hotel clerk who could speak English. Then, I explained her my situation and asked her to give me a permission to take a rest for a while. Finally, she allowed me to do. She said, “You have 15 minutes." I sat down on a sofa. Cold air gave me some energy to start to think about a strategy. After checking google map again, I opened my notebook and drew a simple map with street names. I might have gone back and forth on the same street. So, I decided I would take notes about each street which I checked. Yes, it was just a simple elimination method. But I really needed! I spent 15 minutes there. I started to search for the motorcycle again. Although it took more than one hour, I finally found the motorcycle! It was hard for me to describe the delight with words, especially in English. Then, I went to the stamp shop and made my daughter's stamp. It was still 3:00pm. However, I didn't have the power to visit other places. Then, I went to a department store near my friend's office since it had an air conditioner! I found a sofa and sat down there. If I had been in a normal body condition, at least I would have read a book. However, I had no energy and stared at nowhere in the air for more than an hour. My body really needed to take a rest. I had to admit I got heatstroke. After my friend finished his work for that day, he took me to his place. I had no appetite then. After an hour in taking a rest there, I felt okay. So, we had dinner together at a local Vietnamese restaurant. Though I felt I couldn't eat heavy food, fortunately, there was an ideal food for me. That was pho. It was a Vietnamese noodle soup featuring noodle made from rice. It was a light meal and easy to eat. I enjoyed it though I couldn’t finish all. Then, I talked to my friend about my whole beef head adventure on that day and we laughed a lot together.

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Hanoi Story(2)

After one and half hour an hour and a half, I noticed realized I had had no power to think with a calm mind. I should say I was confused.

I wanted to take a rest in a coffee shop there. Although there were several coffee shops, all the stores didn't have an air conditioner. I really needed somewhere with it.

I found a hotel. The first floor was air conditioned. When I stepped into the hotel, someone shouted to me in Vietnamese which I didn't understand. The voice was from a guy sitting on the a chair near the entrance. He was a gatekeeper. There was no way to communicate with him except for body languages.

Fortunately, I found a female hotel clerk who could speak English. Then, I explained to her my situation and asked her to give me a permission to take a rest for a while. Finally, she allowed me to do. She said, “You have 15 minutes."

I sat down on a sofa. The Cold air gave me some energy to start to think about a strategy. After checking google maps again, I opened my notebook and drew a simple map with street names. I might have gone back and forth on the same street. So I decided I would take notes about each street which I checked. Yes, it was just a simple elimination method but, I really needed it! I spent 15 minutes there.


I started to search for the motorcycle again. Although it took more than one an hour, I finally found the motorcycle! It was hard for me to describe the delight with words, especially in English.

Then, I then went to the stamp shop and made my daughter's stamp. It was still 3:00pm. However, I didn't have the willpower to visit other places.

Then I went to a department store near my friend's office since it had an air conditioner! I found a sofa and sat down there. If I had been in a normal body condition, at least I would have read a book. However, I had no energy and stared at nowhere nothing while sitting in the air conditioning for more than an hour. My body really needed to take a rest. I had to admit I got heatstroke.

After my friend finished his work for that day, he took me to his place. I had no appetite at the time then. After an hour in of taking a rest there, I felt okay. So, we had dinner together at a local Vietnamese restaurant.

Though I felt I couldn't eat heavy food, fortunately, there was an ideal food for me; That was pho. It was is a Vietnamese noodle soup featuring noodle made from rice. It was a light meal and easy to eat. I enjoyed it though I couldn’t itfinish all.

Then, I talked to my friend about my whole beef head adventure on of that day and we laughed a lot together.

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Hi Steve, thank you for letting me know it. I picked the word from a dictionary. But, it seems it is unnatural. I wanted to say a "dumb" adventure.
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Noburo-san, This was a great story! I would have been so stressed-out in a situation like that! It's good that everything worked out in the end, and you could laugh about it. Is "beef head" an expression in Japanese? I don't know if I've seen it in English, but it works. The only thing I would do differently with it is to hyphenate it as "beef-head" in order to emphasize that it's a metaphor.

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