Should I?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Huh? That guy was just thumping his chest. He's probably scared sh!tless that I called the cops , because I told them that was what I was going to do. No one in their right mind wants to go to a Vietnamese jail. I'm not going anywhere Gilbert!

As long as feel you are reasonably safe, then alrighty. Just don't let them extort you anymore for money.

[Nikita2Charles 32]

YOur safety first, as long as you feel safe to stay there. Always keep an eye out

[trinket 30]

Or you can always let her believe that you left the country

[Teacher Mark 53]

I do that anyway. I'm tucked away in a part of HCMC that doesn't have a lot of foreigners and the house is secure. I have 3 other roommates that are huge also. If I left here I would be back within 6 months. I love teaching English. I wish I had discovered this years ago. Here I'm up late worrying about what I'm going to teach in Drama tomorrow. There I would be resting after an overnight trip from Boston to Virginia Beach. When I woke up I would have an overnighter to Charlotte to look forward to. Here I have 200 students and a guaranteed good time.

[Teacher Mark 53]

H1N1 is more of a concern than they are right now:

HCMC closes high school with 21 H1N1 cases

Local people wear masks during a training session given by Thai officials on how to make hygienic hand sanitizing gels from alcohol and chemicals for their families at a school in Bangkok on July 16.

Ho Chi Minh City authorities on Sunday isolated a high school in District 9 after 20 students and a teacher tested positive to H1N1 flu.

Nguyen Van Chau, director of HCMC Department of Health, said the source of the outbreak at Ngo Thoi Nhiem High School in Phuoc Long Ward was from a grade-10 fulltime boarding student.

This student had visited his home in Viet Kieu Hamlet in Dong Nai Province’s Xuan Loc District, where 23 people had been infected with H1N1 flu, before infecting a teacher and other boarders.

The Health Department held an urgent meeting Sunday and isolated the school, setting up two hospital wards to quarantine suspects of the flu. Doctors from District 9 Hospital were assigned to the school to offer examinations and treatments.

The department also ordered the school to be sprayed with decontaminants. All students and teachers were supplied masks to prevent further infections.

Without urgent intervention, there could be a serious threat of infection to the community, the department said.

The department also listed 160 students and teachers who had direct contact with the patients to be closely monitored.

Doctors from Khanh Hoa General Hospital in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa confirmed Sunday that a Belgian man was also tested positive for H1N1.

Emmers Tomas, 39, had stayed at an unidentified hotel in Nha Trang Town with his wife, their child and a 12-year-old niece, after arriving in Vietnam on a flight transiting in China.

He was admitted to the hospital on Saturday with high temperature, headache and runny nose, doctors said.

Their child, who later showed flu-like symptoms, is also in quarantine at the hospital, while his wife and the niece were encouraged to have no contact with people.

Meanwhile, Hue Central Hospital in Thua Thien–Hue Province on Sunday reported they had discharged two overseas Vietnamese from the US after they had fully recovered from influenza A (H1N1), raising the total treated cases here to eight.

Bui Duc Phu, the hospital director, said Sunday they have quarantined three overseas Vietnamese for H1N1, including two from the UK and one from the US. Earlier, 10 others had been cleared after testing negative to the disease.

In its latest report, the Ministry of Health confirmed a total of 383 cases detected in Vietnam so far, 299 of which had been discharged from hospitals.

Reported by Thanh Tung - Lien Chau

http://www.thanhniennews.com/healthy/?cati...mp;newsid=50933

Edited July 21, 2009 by Mr. Saigon

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I do that anyway. I'm tucked away in a part of HCMC that doesn't have a lot of foreigners and the house is secure. I have 3 other roommates that are huge also. If I left here I would be back within 6 months. I love teaching English. I wish I had discovered this years ago. Here I'm up late worrying about what I'm going to teach in Drama tomorrow. There I would be resting after an overnight trip from Boston to Virginia Beach. When I woke up I would have an overnighter to Charlotte to look forward to. Here I have 200 students and a guaranteed good time.

Follow your bliss, brother.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

99 percent of the time, threats are just threats. Like you said, given your size, no way is this guy going to face you in a fair fight. Just don't get caught alone in the wrong place at the wrong time. But that is good advise anytime, not just in a foreign land.

[Anonymous 57 0]

I believe that you reap what you sow.

Don't give her anything.

As for the threat, if they haven't made another one and they haven't acted upon the first one yet, I don't think that anything is going to happen.

Edited July 22, 2009 by Lauraandfrogger

[morocco4ever 63]

#######....why would you consider giving her anything? Being a good guy is one thing, being a doormat is quite another.

[Teacher Mark 53]

She didn't get sh!t and she's not getting sh!t. To call me a doormat is laughable. A trashcan maybe, but never a doormat.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

A brief synopsis:

1.) The marriage was a green card scam.

2.) We have been separated for almost 5 months.

3.) We both live in HCMC, Vietnam.

Legally I'm not required to give her any money. She's screaming poverty though and I'm afraid she's going to end up prostituting herself. Even after all the lies I don't like the thought of that.

No.

[justashooter 430]

Can you legally purchase and carry a firearm in Vietnam?

now that's a stupid question.

[justashooter 430]

I love teaching English. I wish I had discovered this years ago.

try china. the back country cities are full of very polite and sincere people. the coastal cities are less naive, but cleaner. the average salary for an experienced oral english teacher is about $1200-$1500/month, with campus housing and school sponsored medical. you would find yourself teaching grad students who already have functional english to expand their vocabulary and correct their pronunciation. you would be able to create any kind of lesson plan you want, as long as it's not critical of the chinese government.

[Teacher Mark 53]

Thanks for the responses everybody. Here's an update.

I decided to give her the monthly payment I had promised her when we split, which is enough to pay her rent. We met at the usual spot and she came alone. After we both vented a little the conversation became extremely civil. I'll spare the details but to say that we walked away on much better terms than before. I know now that the death threat was just that, a threat. I also know that she has marriage on her mind. The guy is Vietnamese and she says she's very happy. I know that I have a serenity today that was sorely lacking before.