Glimpse into this week

Being here for a month has been the fastest and slowest times of my life. Viet Nam has taught me how to slow down and soak up whats good around me. Realizing the time we have left, I feel this anxiety that I won't be able to live it up as much as I want to. Recently I've been really beginning to understand the limitations on my Vietnamese. Although I can speak it quite easily with my family, I realize the barriers that exist for me and these barriers in which I have to break down. This week's assignment was to ask a local about the widening gap between the rich and the poor. While I couldn't understand everything the taxi driver said, I was able to get the jest of it. But during this time, I just wanted to be able to ask him more questions and make a real conversation. It was like this lump in my throat where my Vietnamese belonged.

Next few months I gotta reach my goal of getting better!