My Year in the Central Highlands of Vietnam: Thoughts and Experiences from the City of Love

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I don't consider myself a great adventurer or a worldly traveler by any means. But, I knew that if I didn't take this Fulbright Scholarship to Vietnam, I'd always look back and wonder about all the great experiences I would be passing up. So, came one of the most difficult decisions of my life: quit my new job at the NIH, leave my family and friends in the US, and book a one way ticket to Vietnam! So far, I have no regrets.

I am going to spend most of my time in Hanoi and Lam Dong Province where I will be working as an English Teaching Assistant at the Yersin University of Da Lat. This is a journal of my travels around Vietnam and of my thoughts as I begin to discover my new home for the next year.

Disclaimer: This site is not an official Fulbright Program site. The views expressed on this site are entirely those of its author and do not represent the views of the Fulbright Program.

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  Last week of LA   Los Angeles, CA on Jul 29, 2010 16 pictures 0 comments
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  Seoul Airport   Seoul, Korea Rep. on Jul 30, 2010 14 pictures 0 comments
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  Vietnam's Hanoi Hilton   Hanoi, Vietnam on Jul 31, 2010 7 pictures 0 comments
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  First cultural lesson in Hanoi: How to buy a phone   Hanoi, Vietnam on Aug 1, 2010 1 picture 0 comments
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  Xin Chao !   Hanoi, Vietnam on Aug 4, 2010 4 pictures 0 comments
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  The "Real" Hanoi   Hanoi, Vietnam on Aug 8, 2010 22 pictures 0 comments
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  A Much Needed Tay Day   Hanoi, Vietnam on Aug 9, 2010 2 pictures 0 comments
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  The Hanoi Opera House and Museum of Ethnology   Hanoi, Vietnam on Aug 10, 2010 18 pictures 0 comments
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  Cat Ba Island   Halong Bay, Vietnam on Aug 15, 2010 20 pictures 0 comments
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  Watching a Cheo   Hanoi, Vietnam on Aug 20, 2010 3 pictures 0 comments
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  Cooking Lesson and Kareoke weekend   Hanoi, Vietnam on Aug 22, 2010 12 pictures 0 comments
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  Its So Hard, To Say Goodbye, To Yesterday   Hanoi, Vietnam on Aug 31, 2010 13 pictures 0 comments
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  First thoughts of Da Lat   Ðà Lạt, Vietnam on Sep 1, 2010 0 pictures 0 comments
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  Vietnamese Independence Day and Nem Nuong   Ðà Lạt, Vietnam on Sep 3, 2010 0 pictures 0 comments
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  Trying to Figure this City Out   Ðà Lạt, Vietnam on Sep 4, 2010 0 pictures 0 comments
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  Things I Am Grateful For   Ðà Lạt, Vietnam on Sep 5, 2010 0 pictures 0 comments
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  Tay Days and Some Interesting Coversations   Ðà Lạt, Vietnam on Sep 7, 2010 0 pictures 0 comments
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  First Days   Ðà Lạt, Vietnam on Sep 8, 2010 0 pictures 0 comments
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  Buying an aodai   Ðà Lạt, Vietnam on Sep 9, 2010 0 pictures 0 comments
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  Open Hours   Ðà Lạt, Vietnam on Sep 13, 2010 0 pictures 1 comment