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A novel, no seriously a novel on Vietnam : )

Hmm, writing about Vietnam is something that I find harder so far than other things. As I mentioned in my frienship village post, I'm currently reading a book titled, The Girl in the Picture which I've been learning more and more about which has made me kind of change the way I think about my experience in Vietnam. I arrived in Vietnam via an 31 hour overnight/ day bus leaving from Vang Vieng, Laos at 1pm. Arriving in Hanoi around 6pm the next day. It was an interesting bus journey for sure. Thank goodness there were two dutch girls on the journey with me. But i'll save the rest of that story for the Laos blog.. I decided to tag along with the girls from the bus journey to the hostel they had booked. Turned out to be an excellent one where you could meet tons of people but it was huge! I think, 7 or 8 stories, a huge lounge, computer lab, outside hang out, a bar downstairs, luggage storage, etc. The next morning the girls and I went on a walking tour of the Old...

Vietnam Friendship Village

I have had several problems with my other blog site, so have decided to go with tried and true google.  I will continue to try and post blogs about the rest of my trip throughout the month.  ENJOY and sorry to make you change your saved links!  Sooo I pretty much would consider documenting my trip as far as photographs and blogging goes a complete fail.. but such is life when you are on the adventure of a life time and don't really want to make time to hit up the internet cafe or borrow computers.  As far as the photos go.. obviously now I wish I had more photos, you always wish you had more afterwards.. but I enjoyed living in the moment and just soaking things in as they came to me. As mentioned in that little mini post, November 7th I started volunteering with Vietnam Friendship Village. I didn't know a whole lot about the organization besides a few things I could read about online. Because Hanoi was my first stop in Vietnam I also wasn't sure what ...