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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 […]
The Dance of Hoa Tuong Vi
It’s my second day at Thi Nghe Orphanage. As soon as I met her, I wondered if her parents had named her for the same reason that my parents had named me Tuong Vi. But then, I wondered if it was even her parents who had named her at all. She was born 4 years […]
So mênh mông
Staring into the vastness of the Tien Giang River, the first phrase that came to me came in an immigrant language—half English-half Vietnamese. So “mênh mông”. Sitting in the middle of this vastness made me feel at ease, at home. But it also reminded me of the vastness of what we, the VIET2010 fellows, faced […]
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