We are back in Hanoi after riding the night train back from Sapa.  We are showering and getting on fresh clothes.  The group is splitting into three assignments from here:

Bonnie and I are going to the University of Hanoi for her to teach a two day seminar on education principles.  As I mentioned before, education is being taken very seriously here in Vietnam and this is the highest profile thing that we are doing on this trip to open doors for future partnerships.  I’ll tell you more about the two schools we helped in SaPa in a later post, but the education aspect ties in at al times here in Vietnam.

Selena is going with Denna and Emily to meet with a governmant organization that assists the blind. Selena is President of the Oklahoma Federation OF the Blind (not FOR the blind) and they are meeting with officials to explore future partnership opportunities with them.

Jimmy and the rest of the boys are headed to SS4 this morning.  You might remember that this is one of the orphanages that we visited last year.  They will be taking sports equipment, playing games, building relationships and, I believe, doing some painting.  Tomorrow they will visit two other orphanages – SS3 from last year, but also Burla which is new for us to work with – and doing similar things there.

While Bonnie is teaching I will be writing and processing pictures (and taking some) so that I can post them when back in Wi-Fi range.  I’ll set them to drop periodically over the night here and daytime back in the US, so keep checking back for updates.

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