December 2010
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
The other day, I was riding on my motorbike...
and as I slowly turned a corner, I happened to look down at the right moment and saw a tiny, vibrant caterpillar inching its way across the road.  Call me crazy, but this minuscule chance observation has humbled me for days.  Life is đẹp dã man.
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                                                       Holiday milestone: Sharing my favorite Christmas classic with my kids… in    Vietnamese!  (Not that you need language to explain the brilliance of this dance.)
Dec 25th
Dec 24th
The Hue Santa's got nothin' on me.
      There’s a Vietnamese Santa Claus who works at the post office in Hue, and it sounds like he’s the only known Santa Claus in Hue for hire. Khanh was planning on hiring him for the An Hoa Shelter’s Christmas party, but we found out his rates were a whopping 800,00 vnd per party! That’s 40 usd! I’m a little upset that I just found out about this now.  I could...
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Dec 20th
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Dancing’s always been a kind of funny joke hobby for me, something that I never took really seriously…  (Exhibit A: my senior year in college, when I took Tap Dance and Aerobic Funk Dance to provide extra humor and joy in my schedule.)  But, for some inexplicable reason, I’m a fast learner when it comes to dancing… and I’ve been fairly successful at teaching dances...
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Several years later, Vietnam catches the ABDC flu. (Uh, she does the weirdest exit at the end?!)
Dec 11th
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For the third time in four months...
a Vietnamese person told me: “You look very romantic.” I overlooked it the first time, thought it was a strange coincidence the second, but then when someone said it the third time, I decided a reevaluation was needed. Wait.   So, my appearance is romantic?   Are my outfits just screaming candlelight, beach sand, and saxophone solos?  Well, if that’s the case… Then I will...
Dec 3rd
Dec 2nd
A little brain activity is always nice.
My brain has never been so active.  I have so many projects in the making (most of which are work related in some way or another) and what surprises me is that I’m not feeling very stressed.  I’ve become one of those people who is obsessed with talking about work, but in a creepy, motivational speaker, rainbow-y way.   So, since I don’t usually write specifically about my work...
Dec 2nd
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Dec 1st