Saigon Revisited
Everytime we re-emerged in this great, crazy city, it was raining or had just dumped, making it cooler by nearly 10 degrees from Hue and cleaning the smog while creating little puddles of pathways going to Michele’s aunt’s house in the heart of District 5.
Tourists know District 1 well, for that’s where all the big overpriced hotels, restaurants, shops and sites are. It is also where there are huge churches because like most cities, the people are more diverse, and with 15% of all Vietnamese practicing Catholics, there are most steeples. So not only do people visit The Unification Palace and the main post office, but they also stop by the Notre Dame
http://old.mbconf.ca/mb/mbh3603/viet.htm
among other. With these the locals that practice face the possibilities of persecution from following unpopular beliefs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saigon_Notre-Dame_Basilica 
And as we were chilling near the pond off one of the main touristy blocks these kids were playing, fishing and posing for pix with a foreigner across the water.…until the po-po came to scare or reprimand them. Apparently it’s illegal to fish in these waters unless you have an adult or something. I tried to warn one of these boys, as we saw the first group of boys being harassed a little further down from them, yet they remained oblivious as two cops, dressed in military green, epaulets shining and strutting with that all-powerful gait that only real pricks can feign snatched their lines, confiscated their fish and scolded them What do they do with the fish? They didn’t throw them back in. Maybe they had sushi for lunch. And what is it with pea-gray-green? Why do so many countries choose his as their color of authority? Regardless, these two pricks came up to the group of boys I was trying to warn and ceremoniously pulled their lines out and confiscated the contraband. Fish mongering terrorists averted!
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