If any stage of the Cu Chi Tunnels was going to activate my claustrophobia, this was it. I had answered the tour guide’s call for a skinny tourist, but now they were asking too much, this tour guide and military-drab chaperone. Yes, I will pose inside the tunnel entrance with trap door held aloft while [...]
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The Cu Chi Tunnel Mantra: How Killing Fields Became a Jungle Gym
Posted in Books, Culture, History, Ideas, Vietnam, tagged Culture, History, Random, Thoughts, Travel, Vietnam, War on May 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Fire Drill, Saigon Style
Posted in Ho Chi Minh City, Ideas, Vietnam, tagged Culture, Humor, Personal, Random, Saigon, Travel, Vietnam on April 4, 2008 | No Comments »
We were enjoying the fire drill just fine until the maintenance men started screaming at us. Students and teachers alike had ambled down the stairway at a leisurely pace, but once we reached the ground floor of the ILA building, the blue-shirted Vietnamese jabbed their fingers violently towards the main entrance as a steady column [...]
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