I have had this post in the back of my mind for a very long time, now I am sitting in the Tan Son Airport in Ho Chi Minh City, waiting to board my flight out of Vietnam, so I figure I now is probably the time. Before I get on with the purpose of…
Category: Vietnam
Some Current Reflections
As the semester begins to draw to a close, I am engulfed in a continuous maze of mixed feelings toward what is to come. I know I missed a week of writing, but as it is in Chicago when the end of the semester draws near, work tends to pile on more heavily than usual,…
Northern Vietnam
We arrived in Hanoi in the early evening, checked into our hotel, and immediately set off to get some Bun Cha (noodles with pork) and spring rolls. Bun Cha is one of the many foods that Hanoi is famous for. My immediate reaction to Hanoi was that I was glad that I am living in…
Hue, Hoi An, and Da Nang
Just a short three days after returning back to Sai Gon from Thailand, I found myself on another plane, this time flying towards Hue, in central Vietnam. I am now on my program’s “North and Central Regions Trip” which essentially means that I am on Fall break, which essentially means that this semester is almost…
What the f*ck is going on?
Please keep in mind as I write this, that I am currently sitting in the Bitexco Financial Building at a Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, and am extremely frustrated. Though traveling in a new place is 99% of the time, a complete and utter high, there is that 1% of the time when the fact…
Mekong Delta
This past weekend, we traveled south, to the Mekong Delta. The Mekong Delta is located at the Southern most part of the Mekong River; the largest river in Southeast Asia. It is the place where the Mekong River approaches and empties into the ocean through a series of distributaries. Many of the people that live…
Week 1 in Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City, or Saigon, is a sensory overload in the best way. From the moment you step outside you are bombarded with smells, and sounds, and images that are a display of the colorful Vietnamese culture, and the growing commercial society that is extremely apparent in the city. Everywhere you look, someone is…
Michaela Rabinov 