Tuesday Teaching in Cự Khối

16-01-2018 Vietnam is not a country where I thought much about eating breakfast.In Ireland I would have had a bowl of porridge, some toast with peanut butter or if there was time I would fry some eggs and have orange juice. It was needed for the hour long cycle from my house to work, andContinue reading “Tuesday Teaching in Cự Khối”

The first day teaching

15-01-2018 Prior to this internship all of my worklife had been bad to mediocre; retail, dole, retail, 2 weeks of work experience in a job I actually liked, office admin for a better than minimum wage but still not earning enough to live on a salary that you can settle down with, and that wasContinue reading “The first day teaching”

The move to Trung Hoa

13-01-2018->15-01-2018 After writing an extensive amount on the CWD, school observations and attractions in Hanoi I felt like I needed to get to the main setting of my Vietnam internship: Trung Hoa, an area 15 minutes southwest of the city center in the Cau Giay district of Hanoi. There were a few other notable incidentsContinue reading “The move to Trung Hoa”

5 Places to check out in Ha Noi

If you read the last post, you will know I did a city tour of Hanoi with a large group of teaching interns and while interesting, there was not much written about the various places I had visited that day. Over the following 2 years in Vietnam I visited these places a few more times,Continue reading “5 Places to check out in Ha Noi”