It’s the end of our first day in Vietnam.
![Start running in Vietnam](https://feel-the-earth.com/keiichi_english/wp-content/themes/the-thor/img/dummy.gif)
I had to find a place to sleep,” I thought.
There was a vacant lot with a few houses, so I decided to sleep in the corner.
I don’t know how long I slept, but I woke up to the sound of a motorbike.
I open my eyes, the lights of the motorbike are dazzling my sleepy eyes, “someone is coming” I think, and before I know it, he is coming towards me and saying something, but I can’t understand him at all, plus I can’t write, so I get up thinking
“what am I going to do?
In China they wouldn’t have known I was a foreigner until I spoke to them, but in Vietnam they immediately knew I was a foreigner.
I said the word “Japanese”, which I had just learned, and gestured that I would sleep here.
I don’t know what came over him, but he said
“OK, OK”
and went back to the road. Just as I was beginning to fall asleep again, I heard the sound of an engine and then the sound of talking.
I got up again and explained verbally and non-verbally that I was Japanese and that I was going to sleep here.
They’re both talking, pointing at the sky, miming something falling, something falling from the sky:
“It’s raining.”
I knew immediately.
“Is it going to rain?”
“It’s coming down,”
and then the other guy makes a gesture that could be taken as,
“Follow me, I’ll show you where there’s a roof, it’s just around the corner,”
so I folded up my luggage and followed the pair of bikers, not suspecting anything.
I walked in and saw a couple of men coming out the front. I didn’t think it was a bad idea, they were all very curious and excited about what was going on.
![these guys invited me](https://feel-the-earth.com/keiichi_english/wp-content/themes/the-thor/img/dummy.gif)
They seemed to be saying,
“If you want to sleep there, you should go there,”
One of the men unlocked a room in another building and showed me to a room.
It was a beautiful room with emerald green walls, a table and chairs and a ceiling fan running.
“sleep here”,
it seemed to say.
![they invited me to this room](https://feel-the-earth.com/keiichi_english/wp-content/themes/the-thor/img/dummy.gif)
I were suddenly in a beautiful private room from a field. I was honestly happy, and the development that is rare in China suddenly happened on the first day in Vietnam.
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