I was surprised at how much I like Hanoi. I had thought it would be just another city, but it's actually really nice to walk around in - there's a big lake in the middle and lots going on. I arrived after 12 hours on a sleeper bus, which actually wasn't that bad this time, and booked myself straight onto a city tour. When the tour bus arrived I discovered that everyone on the bus was at least twice my age, which was a bit of a shame! But the tour itself was act...

I had such a good last week in Ho Chi Minh City and was sad to leave. I had to opportunity to join another AIESEC project, Hope For Children, and visit an orphanage in Saigon. It was small and housed only boys, 16 in total, aged from 8 to 17. It was my first trip to an orphanage and I was a little surprised as it wasn't amazingly clean and the guy looking after the boys didn't look much older than me really. But it was a roof over their heads and they all seemed ...

So it's been rather a long time since I've added anything to my blog. This is due to a combination of being super busy and my laptop deciding to die, thus leaving me without easy internet access and destroying the document I had where I was keeping an account of what I've been doing. I think it's been about 4 weeks since the last entry - I can't believe how quickly time has gone! In that time the first round of interns: Safir, Frankie and myself, had a great...

I realised today that I've stopped craving coffee, which is completely alien to me. I can't remember a time in my life before now that I've gone this long without it. It's too hot here, and iced coffee just isn't the same. Actually, now I'm writing about it I want it again, nevermind! The past week has been a little less eventful than the first, though I've still managed to see more of Saigon and we've progressed a lot with the project. On Wednesday I got up ear...

The next meeting was at 8am on Sunday - a time I very rarely see! This time we had a girl, Nguyen, who was part of the project last year, in our meeting to help out. She has provided a lot of materials for us, including presentation slides, games, leaflets, etc. We spent a few hours going through the material, deciding what we should or shouldn't include, how it was done last year, what needed improving, what materials we would need, etc. We divided the presentat...