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The Blur of Arriving
"It's Vietnam, be reckless," she says. We are weaving through the after-work traffic on the streets of Hanoi and I am quickly learning the rules of the road. Rule #1: focus on what's going on in front...
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Settling into the Bustle
In many places around the world, young foreigners on the streets are offered cocaine or weed; in Hanoi it's motorbike rentals. As I trek back to Linh's house from my first Vietnamese language lesson,...
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More Education, More Development, More Good. Right?
The ideal of economic development. To my left, a twenty-something year-old, with fake hipster glasses and slicked-back hair, mouths the lyrics of all the songs and bounces slightly to the imported...
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Maybe the Premises Are Wrong
My butt is starting to hurt. We are not even halfway through and I am already getting fidgety. The small room's dull beige walls are covered in layers of scratch marks and doodles, giving it a somewhat...
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The Premises May Still Be Wrong (but let's at least have some fun with it)
Last time, that English classroom really did feel like a prison cell (and I felt like the jailer). This time, it is a bit better. A couple from San Francisco (who are staying with Mike, the Couch...
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Two Weeks 'Til Creative Kid
Linh's younger brother, Kien, walks into the house with his red backpack slung over his shoulder and the signature white iPhone headphones running down from his ears. He dances slightly to the beats as...
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The Creative Kid Project
It happened. We worked for four months, assembled a team of committed volunteers, and ran a six-day program for which the most common piece of feedback (from kids and parents alike) was that it should...
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Food Tour of Vietnam
Bahn Mi was definitely not the most delicious food I ate on this trip. After the Creative Kid Project ended, I set off for all of the places I had not been able to visit before, especially those...
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