preparing for tet

I'm not sure what this guy was doing but it looked as though he was shaking rice for sharing with friends over game of chinese checkers

What is normal anyway? Fields of Athenry, motorbikes and Tet...

January 25th 2009
Last night, I fell into one of those fitful sleeps caused by too many celebratory Saigon beers (there’s no such thing as alcoholism once you are a teacher, it’s just called R and R and I‘m on Tet holidays) and the ominous howling of neighbourhood mongrels, interspersed with squabbles between them for meagre bits of food. The steady persistence of a low-rolling drumbeat, the sounds of inflati ... read more

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The conquest of Vietnam by France began in 1858 and was completed by 1884. It became part of French Indochina in 1887. Independence was declared after World War II, but the French continued to rule until 1954 when they were defeated by Communist forc... ... read more

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