Tomorrow I leave Australia for Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. From Ho Chi Minh City I'll be taking a 6 hour bus ride to Soc Trang City in the Mekong Delta. I'll be living in Soc Trang with Dan for the next 12 months. Dan will be busy doing volunteer environmental co-management work on the local coastal mangrove areas and shrimp farms. Meanwhile I will be busy doing.... Well, I haven't quite worked that out yet. But I have grand ideas of doing some kind of volunteer work, lying on a hammock in the tropical heat and reading all the books I made poor Dan take over for me and sampling all of the local delicacies (though I'm still a bit unsure about eating beef noodle soup for breakfast and I have no intention of drinking snake wine).
Anyway, I'm hoping the next 12 months will be exciting, I'm hoping to do something useful while I am over there and I'm hoping to learn a lot more about Vietnam, the people, the culture and the history and maybe even a bit more about myself.
Before that though I have to go finish packing. Argh!
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