Digital Wanderer | Finally, Decent Internet

Writing from the room, on my iPhone. Finally, the internet is good—the cell tower must be nearby, and nobody is using it since this isn't a resort town. We barely made it here today, at sunset. More than a kilometre of elevation gain—no joke.
Digest!
1. Vietnamese women aren't attractive to a European (me), even the city girls, who dress more fashionably
2. So far nobody has cheated or robbed us, except for charging three times the normal price
3. I've made friends with loads of people; I photograph everyone and write down their names: Chin, Lo, Ma, Vien, Nya, Chon.
4. The videos quickly filled up my 4 GB card, and I couldn't find any new ones. Turns out you have to ask for microSD cards for phones—they don't have regular SD cards because nobody owns a camera.
5. Calling home from a Vietnamese SIM is very difficult, and text messages don't get through at all, from any SIM (for me)
6. In the villages everyone shouts "hello", but nobody speaks English; it's a little better in the city. Pantomime is everything!
7. We buy bottled water and packaged food, eat in restaurants, or use the supplies we brought from Latvia.
8. Last night a Christian peasant invited us to stay at his home. He didn't want to take any money, but we slipped him five bucks in dong
9. Tonight we have a hotel with air conditioning! towels, and a toothbrush; we bargained it down to 11 bucks per person
10. The day before yesterday we climbed Mount Fansipan, over 3,000 metres high, in a single day. We did it in 12 hours, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.—extreme, since it gets dark very quickly here at 6.
11. My companions don't trust the Vietnamese and generally try not to interact with them, except for shoving lenses in their faces as if they're photographing monkeys. I still try to treat them like people, asking about their lives through gestures and telling them about myself and Latvia. The Vietnamese are friendly, although in places you can feel the gulf separating us (social and financial)
12. The food is good: noodles with beef for breakfast (pho bo), and rice with meat for lunch or dinner. Not very spicy, but they serve sliced chilli separately, and it's very hot. Soy sauce comes with the rice.
13. The snacks include white-bread rusks (not bad), fried corn with pepper (cool), peppery breadsticks, and dried meat with soy sauce and pepper (not bad). My companions don't try any of it because they're afraid of intestinal infections; they eat biscuits and chocolate brought from home.
13. Sadly, there are no fridge magnets. The other souvenirs are too large to carry around for many more days.

P.S. I miss and love you all—you know who most of all. There are still many days ahead; keep your fingers crossed for me.