Well, I dropped my Ethics in the Media class. Today was no better and I realized that I would be rather miserable spending 7 more weeks in the class. So I dropped it and replaced it with a class called Buddhism East & West, which is taught by my Intro. to Buddhism class last term, […]
Category: Asia 2006
Right, well today it was back into the routine of school for me, with a brand new set of classes. Things were really straightforward. First I had Ethics in the Media which sounds really interesting, in looking at different codes of ethics for the media of different countries. One of the things we’re going to […]
Well I have made it back to Hua Hin in one piece and it feel good to be “home” per say. It’s odd but being back in Thailand real did feel like I was coming home. It’s kind of nice, and as fun as Vietnam was, I’m gad to be back. It’s kind of funny, […]
Ok, well today was relatively calm. The highlight of my day was a visit to the Hoa Lo Prison, which as I mentioned yesterday, was what US POW’s nicknamed the “Hanoi Hilton.” The prison was originally built by the French in the late 19th Century, and the bulk of the displays related to the French […]
Well, this is it….my last night in Vietnam. The title for this entry is the title of a song from the musical Miss Saigon which is sung the night before Saigon fell, or as they say here, was liberated. The world isn’t ending, but my trip to Vietnam is! Aside from losing my camera, this […]
I suppose you’re wondering what that loss is…my camera! My wonderful camera that has the photo record of my entire trip! Gone! I believe I accidentally left it on the train last night and one of the cleaning people or someone probably picked it up. It made this morning quite hectic. But let me start […]
For my last day in Sapa I decided to take it easy and relax in this relatively peaceful mountain village before returning to the chaos of Hanoi tomorrow, though I’ll just be there very briefly. The other part of the reason for taking it easy is that I haven’t been feeling too good. My calves […]
Well, I was right…there’s really nothing to do here after sunset! I mean the restaurants are open, and there are a couple of bars, but the town is mostly deserted, except for the occasionally hill-tribe member offering marijuana and opium and groups of Vietnamese playing a game similar to hackey-sack (did I spell that correctly?) […]