A Difficult, Challenging but Fruitful Trip

Still settling down and trying to get back my energy from the most recent Vietnam trip.

Tour lead a TP group to Vietnam from the Global Citizenship course. It was a group of 45 students and 3 teachers. One of them being my ex-Japanese teacher and he brought me to Japan on an exchange programme when I was still a student with TP.

It was fun mixing around with my juniors but this trip is really stressful. Their schedule was dead tight and practically everyday I was under time stress. To meet the timing of specific arrangements. And it really doesn't help that the kids were falling sick one by one.

The weather was horrid. It was hot even with all the rain. The nights were cooler but not much better.

I had one student being stalked for the full of the 10 minutes walk back to the hotel from Ben Tham night market. It was just lucky for her that A and I decided to go to the market that night. Ended up escorting her back to the hotel and staying around to ensure that all is ok. Didn't get to walk round the market but it's ok. At least everyone's safe. On the next night, the vietnamese Uni students took us to another local night market, Ky Hoa. It was definitely an eye opener.

More adventure on the following night. One of the students felt sick and we have to send her in to International SOS, emergency clinic. I was totally stone out the next day.

By the end of the trip, I was fighting back tears of exhaustion. Now I'm still recovering for all the drama and happenings from my trip.

Hope the trip to Melbourne next month is better.