- living a completely different lifestyle and getting closer with the family

- the vietnamese new years festival

- being extremely attracted to my 2nd cousin, Megan crushing on him and not giving a fuck

- riding the rollarcoaster by the river

- going to the beach with the whole family, having to rent out a huge bus

- going out to cafe’s everyday

- going out to karaoke

- always calling a taxi everytime we went out

- laughing my ass off at the movies watching Teen Princess and the Brave Generals

- eating exotic food and fancy ice cream

- visiting that disturbing, tainted hospital

- visiting that buddhist temple in the mountain

- 2am in the morning before we left, riding motorbikes super fast w/no helmets

- hanging out at Long Hai Beach Resort and telling scary stories at night w/cousins, how disturbing the ocean looked that night

- incest in the family

- doing a lot of things behind my parents’ backs

- the three cute droogs in the truck behind our taxi, who were checking us out, flashing their lights and following us until we got home

- dancing the night away at V7 Club and giving the cute DJ a drink, coming home to grandma asking me why I smelt like beer

- my brother teaching my cousins how to jerk

- the night when we came to an agreement that we were all insane

- getting bit by a bug and my whole arm swelled up and everyone called me popeye

- drinking soooo much beer but never got drunk

- deep conversations with nam and megan about the beauty of living in vietnam

- crying so much at the airport before we left

- that amazingly fine vietnamese flight attendant who set the bar, how it completely changed my perspective on guys

- falling in love with vietnam, thinking to myself that life is truly worth living