went ice skating on sunday and rollerskating today. well it wasn't really ice skating, it was plastic skating. it was a bazaar experience. my friend thi called me on sunday while i was in between classes to see if i wanted to go "rollerskating" that afternoon. apparently a new place had just opened in district 3 and she had never tried it before. she knew that we have "rollerskating" in the US and she wanted me to teach her how to do it. well i told her it sounded like fun and that i used to do quite a bit of skating back home,but i had an evening class to teach and so i would give her a ring after i got off work. i was surprised that she had never been rollerskating cause i knew there was a rink next to the zoo that has been there forever, and in fact i was planning to go to that one on wednesday with another friend. when i got of work i met up with thi and we headed to the place. it was on the top floor of the youth cultural center and as we walked up the three flights of stairs i noticed the mannequins lining the walls were dressed in winter clothes, some were wearing skis and parkas and some were in hockey gear. we weren't going roller skating this was ice skating. i was thinking ice in vietnam, this makes no sense. but after getting our skates on it became even stranger. it wasn't ice at all it was a hard white plastic on the floor that was sprayed with wax to allow you to slide. the room was long and narrow more like a wide hallway than a rink so instead of skating in a continuous circle, you skated down the hall, turned around and came back. watching vienamese try to ice skate was hilarious but of course i forgot my camera.
today i went rollerskating with my buddy joel who volunteers at a youth shelter for boys. every wednesday they do some sort of field trip activity, last week they went to a water park and this week they went rollerskating. the rink was really cool cause although it was rather small, around the outside was a track of ramps with banked turns.
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