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April 19, 2007
A different sense of time
Sometimes I feel like one day here feels like three days back home. On Tuesday night we took the night train and arrived at 5am in Hanoi on Wednesday morning. We walked around for 2 or 3 hours waiting for the Vietnam Airlines office to open. Hanoi at 5-6am is awesome, it's quiet, there are hardly any motobikes and you can actually walk on the sidewalk instead of in the middle of the street into oncoming traffic (during the day motorbikes cover the sidewalks). We saw Hanoians practicing tai chi by the lake, people jogging and some had brought out weights and were pumping iron.
When we found out we couldn't get on the plane to Saigon until 7pm, we walked to the hotel we had stayed in before and got a room until 5pm so we could take a shower and a nap. After a sometimes turbulent flight during which Josh and I were nervous but wouldn't tell each other so as not to worry the other one even more, we're in Saigon. And this afternoon we're headed to the Mekong Delta by bus.
I have so much to write about but need to keep this short because we need to get out of the Internet cafe and catch a bus.
I hope all is well with everyone.
Helene
Posted by insideoutmag at April 19, 2007 11:13 PM
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