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Location Date Wed, 10 October 2012 
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Question:
Have you ever danced in the street? Like in the middle of the street. Like, full on dancing? The way you dance in front of the mirror or in a concert or when you do Zumba! Have you ever grabbed a random stranger and created crazy moves on the spot? but when I say crazy, i mean like crazy... Michael Jackson meets John Lennon--type of dance moves.
Like, you know, when you are dancing with your heart while the whole world spins around and you can't believe that you are dancing in the middle of the street.
You suddenly feel like you are in a music video. I mean, how cool!?
Well, please be jealous because it is exactly what happens when I party these days.
Last weekend I went to Khao San Road. In case you haven't heard of such memorable street, I will proceed and tell you that its limbo. It is the street your parents warned you about and the one your grandmother would frown down upon.
It's where the world meets and forms one unique forang culture. It is where you meet people from all sorts of backgrounds and you befriend them for a moment. You share a minutes, seconds, and, they are stapled in your mind as exactly what they stood for:
Strangers in Khao San Road.
People who danced with you in the middle of the street while the whole world spun in circles and you laughed so hard, you had to stop yourself from falling.
And, I promise it wasn't all the whiskey I drank.
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Adrianaa Thanks for this interesting atilcre. As a teacher, I spend a lot of time thinking about and observing the dynamics of learning, and learnings important correspondent resistance to learning. My experience has been that people generally commit to learning what they feel a sort-term emotional reward and predict a long-term emotional benefit from doing so. What passes for long-term differs by situation and individual. When I first arrived in Hanoi, for example, I gobbled up that difficult language with a passion and an optimistic sense that I would be using it and that it would help me. Importantly, I had an emotional connection to it a sense that emotional rewards awaited me. And indeed there were some short-term gains. Other expats saw no benefit beyond simply getting through practical situations with greater ease. When I became disenchanted with Hanoi, I disconnected from it emotionally, and my vocabulary scattered to the four winds. Thanks again for this thoughtful atilcre.