Tag: Homestay
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Một, hai, ba, dzô!!! – Winter is Here
By: Habtamu Shibashi Xin chào! Tôi là Habtamu (My name is Habtamu), currently studying mathematics and quantitative economics with a concentration in data science and statistics. After spending four months together, going through so many experiences, living life to the fullest, making memories, and building a bond that feels like family, our trip has come…
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Crossed into the Twilight Zone?
By: Tejas Nenneman Hello Everyone! Xin chào! I’m Tejas Nenneman, and I’m a Political Science major at St. Olaf College. We’ve been everywhere these past couple of exciting days! Everything from weekend excursions around Saigon with our homestay family, visiting the peculiar Thu Duc City, to NGO visits… and I almost forgot! Today’s the last…
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Homes Away from Home
By: Alice Boerner Hello all! Xin chào! My name is Alice Boerner and I am a junior Dance and Sociology/Anthropology major at St. Olaf. We’ve done a little bit of everything these past five days in Vietnam, from museum visits to handfishing to homestays, so get ready to hear about it! I’m excited to take…
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Homestays & Coffee & Clouds, Oh My!
By: Emma Sahly ¡Bienvenidos a la finca! This week has been filled with excitement as we relocated from Estacion Biologica Monteverde to our homestays and started working on a sustainable coffee farm, Life Monteverde. Many homes were in close proximity, and I was especially lucky because our home was less than a kilometer away from…