It was October of 2007 and I had just moved from Michigan to Upstate, NY to move near my fiancé and her family, and to take a job as a manager at a pizza restaurant her dad and some others were starting….
Growing up in the suburbs of Detroit, MI I was raised a Michigan Wolverines fan, along with the other great Detroit sports teams. With this came a great and passionate loathing of a particular team from the South……
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The following is my observation of the Vietnamese people – specifically the people from Hanoi. It should be understood that there are cultural differences even throughout Vietnam….
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This has been home for the past nine months, and though it has had its challenges, it has a certain charm and appeal to it. The thousands of years of history, the street vendors, the delicious food, the political capital of the nation, all make for an interesting city like no other.
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Humanity left in complete despair and without hope. That is, until Love came.
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After spending a couple days in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), we took a 6 hr. bus trip to Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It was a decent and uneventful trip through the countryside, until we got to the border….
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Today the Supreme Court ruled that the members of Westboro Baptist Church were within their First Amendment Rights when protesting at the funerals of fallen military. The church members display signs such as”Thank God for dead soldiers” and “AIDS cures fags.”
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One of the areas in which I have been able to assist the international church here in Vietnam is in the media department. It is something that I have really come to enjoy over the last few years (Rebekah thinks I am nerd now…maybe I am).
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On our way to Cambodia we were fortunate to be able to spend a couple days in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC). We originally had planned to fly directly to Cambodia, but direct plane tickets were quite expensive. We were able to cut costs by flying into HCMC and taking a bus from there.