1. My name is Carter and today you're going to learn how to talk about your daily routine.

2. Not only that, but you're going to learn many different activities and fun things that people do. And not even just fun things, but things that people do in Vietnam. 

3. So this will be really useful for you to make plans with someone, for you to talk about what you did on the weekend, for you to simply make small talk with other people. 

4. So first, I'm going to tell you guys about my daily routine in Hanoi. 

5. And spoiler alert, it's really nothing too special. It's very normal, I would say.

6. I wake up. If it's in the winter, then it can be pretty hard to get out of bed because your bed is so warm, outside is so cold. 

7. Even in summer in Vietnam, it can be hard to get out of your room because you have the air conditioner on and it feels so cool...

8. ...and outside of your room is really hot. But yeah, so I wake up and then I usually go outside and get some sunlight into my eyes.

9. I'm not the best sleeper. I have trouble sleeping. So I researched online to go outside, get sun in your eyes in the morning,

10. and also try to raise your body temperature by doing some exercise.

11. So sometimes I will walk to the rooftop of my apartment building through the stairs from a very low floor to the top floor, 

12. and that is my exercise. And then I get the sunlight on the rooftop. 

13. So after I walk from my floor to the rooftop, I'm usually feeling pretty hot from the exercise. 

15. And then I stand on the rooftop for about 5 or 10 minutes, get the sunlight,

16. then I go back down, I brew a coffee with the Vietnamese phin. In English maybe it's just called the Vietnamese coffee filter or we call it a Vietnamese drip coffee. 

17. So I brew one of those with a little bit of condensed milk and a pinch of salt.

18. And then while that's brewing, I will maybe go on my computer, plan my day, check the tasks that I have to do. Usually some form of work.

19. Because early in the morning, I'm still in a relaxed mood. And in the morning, I feel like it's easier to focus. 

20. So when my coffee is ready, I drink my coffee. And then sometimes I will do a quick workout. Like before, it was only a short small workout

21. and then after I drink the coffee I'm like I'm pumped up so then maybe I'll do a workout and then after that often I will eat and then go to work.

22. So what I eat in the morning is pretty much only two things. It is either pho or oatmeal.

23. It depends on what I feel like, but to be honest, I feel like I could eat pho every day and not get tired of it. Well, I do eat pho every day and I don't really feel tired of it. So...

24. I don't know. There's something magic about that dish, to be honest, because you can eat it so often and you don't get tired of it. It's crazy.

25. So, yeah, I eat, I go to work. My job is at a middle school. That's all I will say.

26. After work, I usually come straight home because at that time is rush hour. And rush hour, guys, is usually between like 5 and 6. It can go a little bit longer, 6.30. But that's when the traffic is the worst.

27. And then I drive home. By the way, we can call that a commute. So my commute from home to work is not too far.

28. So then I go home, relax a little bit, and then for dinner, I will often order food or I will go out for dinner with a friend. 

29. I don't often cook at home, to be honest. I should cook at home more, but it just feels so much more convenient and still cheap to eat out or order food.

30. Then after dinner I usually work on my YouTube channel until about 10 or 11 o'clock then I just start to relax and get ready for bed.

31. And uh oh I I forgot one important detail of my routine at the end of the night I always play with my two cats Ty and Teo um I will show you guys these cats on a live stream

32. but yeah they, they are brothers. I love them so much. They're awesome cats. And they really helped me relax at the end of the day. Yeah, they're really awesome. 

33. So that is my daily routine on a normal weekday. Nothing too interesting, right? It's nothing special. I think many people just you know, most people live lives like that. 

34. We get up, we do this thing, we go to work, come home, we do that thing. And the fun things we do are in between all of the things we must do, right?

35. So on the weekend, sometimes I will go for a walk around Hoan Kiem Lake. Sometimes I will play badminton with a friend, go out to a cafe with a friend.

36. Maybe go to a nice restaurant in Westlake, because Westlake has a lot of international restaurants, and I really like international food, like Mexican food or Indian food.

37. So now I'm going to talk about activities that I see people doing a lot in Hanoi.

38. And these things, if you live in Ho Chi Minh City, if you live in some other big city, or even in the countryside, you can use these things to talk about what you do. 

39. So for example, in Hanoi, you can go to the night market. You can wander around there. You don't necessarily need to buy anything, 

40. but you can just take a look at what people are selling. You can go to a cafe and just hang out. One of the great things about cafes is that you don't really need any reason to go to a cafe, right?

You can go there to work or you can just call your friend. You want to hang out? Sure. Okay. Let's go to a cafe.

N. And then you just sit at the cafe and enjoy a coffee, maybe a tea. Many people gather at cafes and they don't even like talk to each other, right?

N. They just sit there on their phones, but at least they're still together. So they enjoy just being next to one another. What else? I see many young kids rollerblading. Maybe some of you call this roller skating. I think it's the same thing.

N. But in Canada, we call it rollerblading and they do this in the parks and they go really fast. It's actually really fun if you try it. 

N. I notice in Vietnam, pretty much only kids do the rollerblading, but if you're an adult and you want to try it, try it. It's seriously, it's a lot of fun and it's a really good workout.

N. When tourists come to Hanoi, they can go or any city. When I say Hanoi, I mean anywhere basically in Vietnam. They can go on a food tour.

N. They can visit the Temple of Literature. Or they can go to the prison museum. There's definitely a few things to do. Other things I often see people doing are sitting on the sidewalk and eating street food.

N. To be honest, personally, I'm not a huge fan of street food because most of it is like processed and fried and just not really healthy for you.

N. Like those meat sticks, not Thit Xien, but the ones where it's like a stick and you put the different meats on it, like the balls, the pink balls, the yellow balls.

N. I don't even know what those are called, but I see they're very common. So, yeah, you could chill on the street and eat that street food.

N. And so those are a lot of things you could use to make plans, to talk about what you did on the weekend. For different sports, we can say, you know, play football, play badminton, play table tennis.

N. We don't use hit, right? We don't say hit tennis. Don't say hit tennis. When we're talking about walks, you can say go for a walk, have a walk, go for a stroll, go for a run, go for a jog. 

N. That all sounds very natural. You can say go jogging. So, for example, oh tomorrow, I'm going to go for a jog. Or tomorrow, I'm going to go jogging. Both of them are totally okay.

N. Oh, yeah. And that reminds me some other things you can do. You can go work out at the gym. You can go out for dinner at a restaurant. You can go out for dinner at a restaurant. So there's just so many activities that I'm sure I cannot name them all.

N. But hopefully I've been able to name a lot of them that will be really useful for you guys. If there are any activities that I didn't name, feel free to post it in the comments. Tell us like what you do on a regular day. 

N. You could practice writing, you know, first I do this, then after that I do this. Sometimes I do this. If it's something, I'll do that, right? 

So for example, I often go for a walk in the evening but if it's raining i'll stay home and read something like that. So guys, that's it for this podcast but if you want to check out my live stream then click this video this was the first live stream I've ever done. I forgot to post the live chat.

N. So next stream, you will be able to see the live chat. But you can expect me to be streaming every Sunday at 10 a.m. And I will post that for you guys. 

N. So yeah, thank you so much for listening, for watching this podcast. I hope it was useful for you and I will see you in the next video. Have a great day.