From an email exchange with a dear friend currently serving in Pakistan, commenting on my happiness in getting posted to Bangladesh:
“We’re not the kind of officers who bid on cushy places. We like grit & interesting places.”
So true.
November, 2018:
Just another Sunday morning in Vietnam
A Buddhist monk chilling on his motorcycle in the park, while talking on his cell phone.
To say that Vietnamese culture is diverse and complex is to understate how incomprehensible it can be to a foreigner. I’ve been in country a year and a half, and I still feel like a newcomer. Will I ever understand this country? Possibly not, but I doubt that I will ever stop wanting to.