Friday, the 4th of December of 2015 - [PST](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Time_Zone) - 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.](https://steemit.com/police/@joeyarnoldvn/police-decline) [Ruth-Thuc Lu](https://www.facebook.com/ruththuc.lu) is the wife of a pastor of a church I would attend in Vietnam. She may have connection with the [Bethel Evangelical Church.](https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bethel-Evangelical-Church/774272722646086) # Speaking English 12:32 AM - [Nguyen Thao](https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003977751200) 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](https://www.facebook.com/sky.green.9619) 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](https://www.facebook.com/NTMyDiem.1994) 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 . . . Ms.Tien Nguyen: Facebook.com/fygroup; [email protected] Facebook.com/joonguyen66; Facebook.com/hangmyxachtay66 Mobile: 090-855-6131 . . Teacher Joey Arnold Facebook.com/lelVN; Facebook.com/JoeyArnoldVN JaEnglish.webs.com; [email protected] Facebook.com/groups/OatmealEnglish Mobile: 0168-478-5542 . . . Information & links: . 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 . . . My Facebook is Joey Arnold My username: JoeyArnoldVN Skype: JoeyArnoldVN My Facebook: Facebook.com/JoeyArnoldVN . My YouTube: YouTube.com/users/JoeyArnoldVN . My Twitter: Twitter.com/JoeyArnoldVN . My Tumblr: Tumblr.com/blog/JoeyArnoldVN . My Facebook English Page: Facebook.com/lelVN​ . My Tiny Chat: TinyChat.com/JoeyArnoldVN . . . Additional web links as follows: . Facebook.com/groups/OatmealEnglish Facebook.com/groups/85USA YouTube.com/JoeyArnoldVN [email protected] Facebook.com/fygroup JaEnglish.webs.com . 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. . Private Classes with Joey Arnold: Fee: 500.000 VND/hour . # 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](https://www.facebook.com/khanh.thuan.142) sent me a friend request on Facebook. # Joey Arnold Expats 11:55 AM - [Blogspot](https://anothersideofvietnamjoeyarnold.blogspot.com/2015/12/joey-arnold-expats.html) - 2015-08-18 - Tuesday - 13:28 PM - [DOY News](https://doynews.com/article/10-types-expats-living-vietnam) - 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](https://anothersideofvietnamjoeyarnold.blogspot.com/2015/12/joey-arnold-youtube-bizarre-man.html) - 2014-03-28 - Friday - 10:11 AM XCT - [Saigoneer](https://saigoneer.com/saigon-culture/1732-expats-and-saigonishappy) - 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](https://joeyarnoldthingsok.blogspot.com/2015/12/first-three-years-in-vietnam.html) - 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. . 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 . 2012-12-04, Tuesday, 11:00 AM 2013-01-15 apx Papa Foods Restaurant: Bac Ninh, Vietnam . 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 . 2013-04-08, Monday, 09:00 AM 2013-05-01 apx Saigon Backpacking Hostel . 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 . 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:](https://www.facebook.com/saigoniz) 6 - 8 PM Sundays 135 Nguyễn Quý Anh, P.Tân Sơn Nhì, Q.Tân Phú, HCM [Tiên Phạm:](https://www.facebook.com/tien.phamnt) [email protected]: 090-665-6878 [Bi Già:](https://www.facebook.com/bi.gia.92) [email protected]: 096-688-2450 [Belle Lùn:](https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002708328782) [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](https://anothersideofvietnamjoeyarnold.blogspot.com/2015/12/jetty-ha-broken-from-ja-in-2014.html) # Different Classes 11:33 PM - [Blogspot](https://joeyarnoldenglish.blogspot.com/2015/12/different-classes.html) - 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: . 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..... . 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. . 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](https://www.facebook.com/rick.arnold.39) 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."