China Tomorrow

I’m going to China tomorrow. I can’t believe fall quarter is finally here.  I’m trying to get pumped for learning, but my little Vietnam vacation kind of threw me back into summer mode.  It’s my last night in Vietnam and I’m staying in a lovely hotel in Hanoi, the capital.  I’m about to go out [...]

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The Last of Saigon

So. After the cyclo ride, the two Australian girls and I went to Highlands Coffee next to our hotel to take a rest. I have discovered that Vietnamese coffee is amazingly good. They put sweetened condensed milk in a cup, and then place a small brewing device over the cup and let the coffee drip [...]

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CYCLO!

VSo, next we went on a cyclo ride through Saigon.  For those of you who don’t know, a cyclo-rickshaw is a bicycle with a seat attached to the front. So I sat in the seat, and my driver pedaled behind me.

Me looking absolutely ridiculous in my cyclo.

View from the hotseat!

Our humorous drivers demonstrating how to [...]

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Day 2 – Saigon

So. The day after I arrived by plane, I spent the whole day exploring Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City.) It turns out that most people who live here still call it Saigon, even though the official name is HCMC. Some people (like my Viet American friends) say it’s because Saigon fought for the south, and [...]

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Viet Nam

So much has happened in the past 3 days!  On Monday I did a walking tour of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), then Monday night we took an overnight train to Nha Trang, a beautiful beach resort city.  On Tuesday we did a boat tour of the Nha Trang islands, which included snorkling, a song [...]

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Good Morning, Vietnam

It is 7 AM on Monday morning here in Vietnam, and I just woke up.  I got about 7 hours of sleep last night, which is pretty good because I thought I might wake up at 3 or 4 AM due to jet lag. Considering that I barely slept for the 48 hours before bed [...]

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