Today is Sunday. We made the effort to get up at 7.30am and will continue to do that to get on a schedule. We start school in one week,...

Yesterday was rain all day and the entire previous night. To clarify, it is not that Seattle kind of rain, but more of a turn on the tap,...

Last week I had my Vietnamese initiation and now Michael is having his. I am referring to the stomach/diarrhea festival. Poor guy, he...

Life has been pretty boring over the past several days. We have been staying inside, studying and looking forward to dinner. We have...

Yesterday, while showing Michael how to operate the washing machine, I discovered my first major spider here. It was about 4 inches...

Today was not successful with the banks. We took a taxi to a highly rated bank with expats and spoke with someone with decent English and...

Yesterday I woke with a horrible stomach ache that had me fighting the need to vomit. It was also the day we had an all day private tour...

In the course of the past four days, we managed to secure a local apartment for three months. We wanted a good location to the school we...

We are officially in Hanoi. It has been a vibrant 5 days already and have accomplished a lot considering the overwhelming of the new,...

It was my intention to post more in my blog, but all the craziness leading up to this moment has made it difficult...sorry. At this point...