u/JaguarAltruistic8431

Just got back from spending 2 months in Saigon with my Vietnamese partner and her family and feeling so depressed!

Honestly, the last 2 months have been some of the best of my life spending time with my partner and her family, eating new food, travelling around to different places. Part of me feels like I relate to the Vietnamese culture and people more that of my own country.

Since getting back home I’ve been feeling sick in the stomach and borderline in tears about being home. Has anyone else experienced this and how do you deal with it? Maybe I’m just tired and need to sleep lol but it has caught me completely off-guard.

Edit: Well it’s the next day and I feel much better. That was weird lol…still thinking of moving back to Vietnam though

Hi, so I’ve been running fairly consistently for the last 6 months and have just started trying to follow the suggested run that my garmin forerunner 55 suggests. The problem is, the runs it is suggesting are supposed to be base runs, but are at a significantly faster pace than what I’m used to and I can barely finish them. My heart rate goes well into zone 4 for the pace that it suggests (>170bpm).

Does anyone know why this would be the case? There should be enough data in my watch from all the runs I’ve completed in the last 6 months to accurately give a base run suggestion.

Thanks

Edit: I’ve just read another post similar to this where they suggested to change the effort indicator from pace to HR which seems to make more sense. I think my watch has overestimated my VO2 max lol

Hello,

Earlier this year I celebrated Tết in my girlfriends hometown, and met lots of relatives. She is 28 years old and I am 30 years old, and because her parents had her when they were quite young, she has some uncles and aunties that are actually younger than her and myself.

I was told to address these uncles and aunties as Cô/Chú/Dì/Cậu etc and myself as con. I understand this is part of the family hierarchy in Vietnam, but do Vietnamese people ever find this weird?

For example, I've heard of cases where say a 45 year old man in a family has to call his 25 year old aunt cô and refer to himself as con. In reality, do people really follow this in real life or is it just awkward referring to yourself like that? Or do people generally end up just using each other names instead?

Interested to hear from Vietnamese people how they feel about these situations and what is normal in their family.

Thanks!