I will start to use my old blog again. See it here: http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/JWS112/

It's now been over a week since returning home. I feel like I should summarize what the whole year means to me, but since I don't really know yet, I will spare everyone from reading that. Saying goodbye to Tra Vinh, my students and to my friends was a little sad, but not too bad. I know I will be back to see them in the fall. I am looking forward to seeing my students and see how their English has improved, and I will definitely be looking forward to visiting t...

This is my last post from Tra Vinh. I will be home on Tuesday morning, so I am looking forward to seeing friends and family. It will be sad to leave all my friends and students here, but I am looking forward to being home for a while. Motorbike accidents, they're part of living in Vietnam. I have not been in any, and have only seen a few, but about 30 minutes ago I saw the worst one I have seen since being here. I have seen the remnants of bad accidents, inc...

Hello from Tra Vinh. My time here is coming to an end really soon. I only have about 3 weeks before returning home on June 22. It hasn't yet hit me that my year (well, nearly a year) in Asia is almost over. Everything has been good since my last post. I went to Nha Trang with other volunteers from all over Vietnam. Myself and three friends drove up in a car provided by another volunteer's Aunt. It was fun to road trip, but I happened to get sick that same morni...

Hello from Tra Vinh. I have been pretty busy since my last post. A few weeks ago, we decided to have some fun and have a pub crawl in Tra Vinh. Of course there are no pubs, or even anything you would call a bar, but there are plenty of places people eat and drink. To make it an official pub crawl, we decided to have shirts made. Our slogan for the evening was "A Night of Sin in Tra Vinh." Our shirt also listed all the places we would go (only 6 places...