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Viet Fellows 2011 is Here
The heat. It’s one ever-enduring fact of Viet Nam. You’ll just have to deal with it. The stifling heat will jar you into another reality. That’s how I feel every time I land here and walk from the climate-controlled airplane cabin to the murky humidity that is life in Viet Nam. It’s almost as if […]
Snot and Drool | Playground
July 18, 2010 Last Wednesday marked the beginning of my week of service with my partner, Vi, at Thi Nghe Orphanage in Saigon. So far we have worked three days at the center, and I am preparing for our upcoming week. If the piece below seems at times disjointed and even random, it’s because that […]
Beginning
Flat is the best word I can use to describe my emotional state before leaving for Vietnam. Training in San Francisco had excited me about the objectives of the program and I was eager to learn more about Agent Orange/Dioxin in Vietnam. But at the same time, the usual buzz of exhilaration and anticipation before a big trip was definitely absent. It’s not that I had very negative feelings about going; it’s just that I was having a hard time summoning some enthusiasm. VIET2010 marks my fourth trip to Vietnam, and though the ambition inherent in both this project and my expectations for it separates this journey from my previous ones, I could not help feeling that returning again would be unremarkable.
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