Viet Nam

the trip of a lifetime has come and gone. i couldn't wait for it to come and when the time came to leave, i couldn't imagine what i would see or do....all i knew of viet nam was the war...well, i didn't really know the war, i just knew there was a war....a war that my father was a veteran of which he never spoke of....so, when it came time to board our first flight out of boston, i didn't know what would lie ahead...what if i couldn't eat the food? what if i couldn't figure out how to use the squat toliets? what if the hotels are scary and full of bugs and other things? it could be the longest 19 days of my life....

we spent over 27 hours in planes and airports....we left at 8am on a tuesday and arrived at 11:30pm on wednesday....the sun did not go down until we left tokyo, wednesday evening.... we lost a day travelling to asia...the time difference between boston and tokyo is 14 hours....between boston and bangkok (our final destination on wednesday) is 12hours....on wednesday our journey ended in bangkok for the night....we arrived at the hotel there after mindnight and had to be up and ready to go again by 7am....so, a short nap is what we had....

on thursday morning we met our group members....the other people we would be spending the next 14 days with....from the start it was obvious i was the youngest person on the trip....i would soon learn i was the only non-retired person on the trip.....we took another flight into viet nam and arrived in Ha Noi....our journey was about to begin....this is our group...



my trip to viet nam was an adventure...it was full of learning and discovery....i was able to do things and see things that i could have never seen if we did this trip on our own....i have been trying to decide the best way to write about the trip....i could do day by day, or by topic...i am going to attempt to do my blogging by topic....from the food to the education system to the war and everything in between.....i hope you will enjoy them....as much as i enjoyed experience every minute of it.