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Farewell to Vietnam

Posted by jumpalagi | 24th April 2007

Today is my last day in Vietnam. I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, I am eager to see my husband and my dogs. I have carried them with me in my heart these last weeks, thinking of them so often. When it was hard to fall asleep at night, I would think about what they were doing back home in Connecticut, and that would soothe me to sleep. On the other hand, I love this country and am sad to leave it. Vietnam has woven her way into my spirit. Not everything has been easy or peaceful or happy, but the whole web of life here is entrancing.

I have no agenda for the day, so I have been wandering, mostly in the Old Quarter. I started my day with a visit to a pagoda just south of the Old Quarter, Quan Su. I've read that it's one of the busiest pagodas in Hanoi. ("Pagoda" is a word used only for Buddhist temples in Vietnam. There are many other kinds of temples, but only Buddhist temples are "pagodas.") Indeed, there were a number of people chanting, praying,

Continued | Vietnam, spring 2007

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