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somehow still in hoi an…

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

hello friends, good news… JESSIE LIVES! yesterday she was feeling a bit woozy in the morning but somehow had it in her to do a 12 hour day of shopping and today seems completely healed. i really hope this shopping business ends soon. today we are going to volunteer for a few hours at a local orphanage. tomorrow we are going to a small village outside of hoi an with a vietnamese friend who works at the internet place. okay, no problem. oh yes! i almost forgot! after trials and tribulations en mas my pictures are finally up! click on the pic link and enjoy!

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monsoon madness

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

wooooooooooow! it is raining so hard right now it seems like the sky can not possibly be strong enough to hold up these rain clouds. i mean, the sound of the rain hitting the ground- it’s almost like shots being fired as each drop is so weighty. actually, you really can’t see the drops, it is more like sheets. the extreme rain just started like 2 minutes ago and already the water in the street is about 3 inches high. wow. okay. i’m not sure whether to start from the train and work forward or start from now and work backwards. i think maybe it’s better to start from the beginning of things, starting with the night train. [read on]

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might as well face it, i’m addicted to clothes!

Sunday, October 9th, 2005
hellllllllo! we took the nighttrain which was very cool and arrived in hoi an at around 11:30 in the morning. since then we have been eating delicious food and shopping our brains out. so much so, in fact, ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Stop hanoi-ing me!

Thursday, October 6th, 2005
haaaaaaahahahahha! so it turns out that pho chai in a tone (indascernably) different to me, means "i will burn everything down!" hahahah no wonder that dude was so pissed. i couldn't understand why "vegetarian noodles" would be so offensive ... [Continue reading this entry]

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home to hanoi

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005
there is one vietnamese channel that as far as i can tell, only shows skits of small children (lip) singing and dancing in costume and at other times shows montages of bird pictures with soft silly grocery store music accompanying ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Rolling down the river

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
So i wasn't able to sleep at all that night. i guess my post traumatic stress kicked in as did the hunger i was feeling since we missed out on having dinner as we were too exhausteed to leave ... [Continue reading this entry]

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hanoi like woah

Saturday, October 1st, 2005
after breakfast jess and i took a WILD WILD WILD stroll around town. this place is like no other. every couple of streets is like a little town that specializes in something, we strolled from noodle town (although ... [Continue reading this entry]

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radio hanoi

Friday, September 30th, 2005
this morning we woke up and it appeared as though all of vietnam was listening to the same radio station as there was this women's newscaster-esque voice booming over the street. we both slept like dead people and this ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Here in Hanoi…

Friday, September 30th, 2005
unbelievable. we are finally here. the flight was so long it is excruciating to even revisit as a memory although only japanese flight attendents could somehow be kind and gracious enough to make the cramped steerage section bearable. ... [Continue reading this entry]

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