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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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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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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Vietnam

I finally made it to Vietnam. I can’t believe it.  Even after traveling for over 30 hours, it still doesn’t quite seem real. 
On Friday morning I got up at 10 AM, and I haven’t really slept much since then.  It is 11 PM here in Ho Chi Minh City.  I went outside to take a [...]

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Ground Control to Major Tom

I’ve realized that the amount I write is inversely proportional to how exciting my life is.  I haven’t been keeping up with this blog lately because my life’s been a fast-paced confusing whirlwind for the past few weeks.  My… er…. gentleman caller is back in college in Worcester, so I’ve been trying to balance seeing [...]

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