The Tuong performance in Bac Ninh was very interesting. It was very long and we sat on a hard floor outside so when we came home we felt more dead than alive! But the performance was beautiful, face paint, flags, swords, strange shoes, everything you need for a good show! The day after Hai Van said that we could come to see a concert with a Japanese koto ensemble at the academy. It turned out to be twenty old japanese amateurs playing "piano-kotos" with pre-recorded backgrounds on floppy discs. We stayed for two tunes, after "do re mi" from the sound of music we decided that this was not the thing for us. On sunday I went to Bac Ninh to listen to Quan ho together with Hue and her friends, Pia stayed in Hanoi. It was a very long day, no vegetarian food, hard floors, beautiful singing and horrible camera men trying to get everything on tape and destroying for the audience and the singers. That's all for now!
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