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		<title>THE STREETS OF HOI AN</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my Têt holidays, I decided to visit the center region of Vietnam. I had an amazing time.]]></description>
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<p>During my Têt holidays, I decided to visit the center region of Vietnam. I had an amazing time.</p>
<p>I left Saigon on a sleeping bus.During the 22 hour long journey to Hoi An I met Yuliya, from Belarus and Sam, from Australia. We got along very well and decided to visit Hoi An together.</p>
<div id="attachment_7503" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 624px"><a href="http://www.jetsetzero.tv/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/IMG_0054.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-7503   " title="IMG_0054" src="http://www.jetsetzero.tv/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/IMG_0054-1024x682.jpg" alt="" width="614" height="409" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The streets of Hoi An.</p></div>
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<p>We wandered around, visited old houses and buildings, bought dragon fruits and apples, looked out for conical hats, and ate Hoi An specialities: cao lau and wite rose.</p>
<p>Hoi An is a very cute town with beautiful old timber houses. Until the 19th century, Hoi An was a thriving port town thanks to trade with China and Japan. Those relationships largely influenced the architecture, a mix of Vietnamese, Chinese and Japanese styles.</p>
<div id="attachment_7506" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 624px"><a href="http://www.jetsetzero.tv/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/IMG_01031.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-7506 " title="IMG_0103" src="http://www.jetsetzero.tv/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/IMG_01031-1024x682.jpg" alt="" width="614" height="409" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Nguyen thai hoc street.</p></div>
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<p>On the practical side, I wasn&#8217;t too happy with the ticket system for visitors. You must buy a 75,000 Dong pass that gives you access to one old house, one museum, one temple or bridge, one congregation hall and one music or handicraft show.</p>
<p>Hoi An is a World Heritage site and deserves to be. I understand that they need to make enough money to maintain all the monuments, especially those in which less people are interested, but it is frustrating that you cannot pick excatly what you want to see. Yuliya, Sam and I wanted to visit three old houses, but to do so each of us would have had to buy three passes. We tried to use our museum ticket to visit a house, we even said we would pay to visit the place, but the staff would hear nothing. &#8221;We can only accept ticket #2- the house ticket- because at the end of the month we count them and get money from the government accordingly,&#8221; we were told at the entrance.</p>
<div id="attachment_7508" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 624px"><a href="http://www.jetsetzero.tv/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/IMG_0057.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-7508 " title="IMG_0057" src="http://www.jetsetzero.tv/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/IMG_0057-1024x682.jpg" alt="" width="614" height="409" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">A house in Hoi An.</p></div>
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<p>Still, if you don&#8217;t mind the tourists, Hoi An is definitely worth a little visit.</p>
<p>* * * * * * *</p>
<p>LES RUES DE HOI AN</p>
<p>Pour mes vacances du Têt j&#8217;ai décidé de visiter la région Centre du Viêtnam. Pendant le voyage long de 22 heures en bus couchettes entre Saigon et Hoi An, j&#8217;ai sympathisé avec Yuliya, une Biélorusse, et Sam, un Atustralien. Comme on s&#8217;entendait vraiment bien, on a décidé de visiter Hoi An ensemble.</p>
<p>Nous nous sommes promenés dans les rues, avons visité de vieilles demeures, acheté des fruits du dragon et des pommes, épié les flots de chapeaux coniques, et mangé des spécialités de Hoi An: le cao lau et les roses blanches.</p>
<p>Hoi An est une mignonne petite ville avec ses vieilles demeures en bois. Jusqu&#8217;au 19ème siècle, c&#8217;était un port florissant grâce au commerce avec la Chine et le Japon. Ces relations privilégiées se ressentent dans l&#8217;architecture da la ville, un mélange de styles vietnamiens, chinois et japonais.</p>
<p>D&#8217;un point de vue pratique, je n&#8217;ai pas été très convaincue par le système de tickets pour les visiteurs. On est obligé d&#8217;acheter un pass à 75 000 Dong qui permet d&#8217;assister à un spectacle musical ou d&#8217;artisanat, et  de visiter une vieille demeure, un musée, un temple ou pont et un lieu de rassemblement.</p>
<p>Hoi An est un site du patrimoine mondial et le mérite. Je comprend bien qu&#8217;il faut de l&#8217;argent pour maintenir tous ses monuments en état, notamment ceux délaissés par le public. Mais c&#8217;est tout de même frustrant de ne pas pouvoir visiter exactement ce que l&#8217;on souhaite. Yuliya, Sam et moi voulions visiter trois vieilles demeures et pour ce faire nous aurions dû acheter trois pass chacun! Nous avons essayé de faire passer notre ticket musées pour un ticket donnant accès aux maisons, et nous avons même proposé de payer pour visiter une vieille demeure mandarine. Mais le personnel ne voulait rien savoir. &#8221;On ne peut accepter que les tickets n°2, permettant de visiter une maison ancienne, car à la fin du mois le gouvernement nous donne de l&#8217;argent en fonction du nombre de tickets.&#8221;</p>
<p>Enfin, si côtoyer les touristes ne vous fait pas peur, Hoi An vaut largement un petit détour.</p>
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		<title>STARING OR NOT STARING</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many Vietnamese women are fascinated with my ''yellow hair'' and ''white skin,'' as they call them.
Like this old woman at the bus stop, who kept staring at me. She mumbled something in Vietnamese...]]></description>
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<p>Many Vietnamese women are fascinated with my &#8221;yellow hair&#8221; and &#8221;white skin,&#8221; as they say.</p>
<p>Like this old woman at the bus stop, who kept staring at me. She mumbled something in Vietnamese. I shrugged, to tell her that I didn&#8217;t understand what she was saying. Then, the woman sitting next to me said. &#8221;She say you are beautiful.&#8221;</p>
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<p>It happened again at Nguyet&#8217;s village, where I spent my Tet holidays. Her neighbors were jealous- in a nice way- of my white skin. By the way, they were also jealous of my tummy, which is not completely flat as theirs!</p>
<p>Most Vietnamese women who live in the city use a lotion to whiten their skin. Despite my efforts to make them change their minds:  &#8221;You are beautiful. You should like yourself the way you are! There&#8217;s nothing wrong with having a tanned skin. It&#8217;s nature. It&#8217;s how you are meant to be!!!&#8221;, they keep wearing long sleeves, long pants and long gloves when exposed to the sunlight.</p>
<p>In some situations I find the staring acceptable, but sometimes it really bothers me. In France, if you catch a person staring at you she quickly looks away. Not here. Their staring can be so intense  that it feels really intruding. Once, on the bus after an exhausting day at work, I found myself telling a woman to stop staring at me while I was counting my change.</p>
<p>I couldn&#8217;t hep it, and I felt bad about it.</p>
<div id="attachment_7481" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 586px"><a href="http://www.jetsetzero.tv/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/hair2.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-7481 " title="Hair again" src="http://www.jetsetzero.tv/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/hair2.jpg" alt="" width="576" height="432" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Jet black hair, again.</p></div>
<p>The other day as I was sitting at the back of a bus full of locals, I found myself admiring the jet black hair of two girls who were sitting in the sunlight. And I thought: now, you can imagine what it&#8217;s like for them when they see real blond hair.</p>
<p>Okay, I&#8217;ll try to take the staring easy.</p>
<p>* * * * * * *</p>
<p>FIXER OU NE PAS FIXER</p>
<p>De nombreuses femmes vietnamiennes sont fascinées par mes &#8221;cheveux jaunes&#8221; et ma &#8221;peau blanche&#8221;, comme elles disent.</p>
<p>Cette vieille femme à mon arrêt de bus par exemple, qui me fixait de ses yeux fatigués. Elle a grommelé quelque chose en vietnamien. J&#8217;ai haussé les épaules pour lui signifier que je ne comprenais pas. C&#8217;est alors qu&#8217;une dame sur le banc voisin traduit: &#8221;Elle dit: tu es belle.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ce fut pareil dans le village de Nguyet, où j&#8217;ai passé les vacances du Têt. Ses voisines étaient gentiment jalouses de ma peau blanche.  D&#8217;ailleurs, elles étaient aussi envieuses de mon petit ventre qui n&#8217;est pas aussi plat que le leur!</p>
<p>La plupart des femmes qui vivent en ville utilisent des crèmes qui blanchissent la peau. Malgré mes efforts répétés pour leur faire changer d&#8217;avis: &#8221;Tu es belle. Tu devrais t&#8217;aimer telle que tu es! Il n&#8217;y a  pas de mal à avoir une peau bronzée. C&#8217;est comme ça que la nature t&#8217;a voulu!!!&#8221;, elles continuent à porter pantalons couvrants, manches longues et gants longs pour se protéger de la lumière du soleil.</p>
<p>Parfois j&#8217;oublie le regard des gens, parfois il m&#8217;ennuie vraiment. En France on détourne rapidement les yeux quand on nous surprend en train de fixer quelqu&#8217;un. Pas ici. Leur regard est parfois si intense que c&#8217;en est dérangeant. Une fois, alors que je rentrai chez moi en bus après une journée assez fatiguante, je n&#8217;ai pu m&#8217;empêcher de dire à une dame d&#8217;arrêter de me regarder alors que je comptais ma monnaie.</p>
<p>C&#8217;est sorti tout seul et je m&#8217;en suis un peu voulu.</p>
<p>L&#8217;autre jour, en queue de bus rempli de locaux, je me suis surprise à admirer la chevelure noire de jais de deux filles assises à la lueur du soleil. Et j&#8217;ai pensé: maintenant, tu sais ce que c&#8217;est pour eux de voir des vrais cheveux blonds.</p>
<p>Bon, je vais essayer de faire un effort.</p>
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		<title>STREET STYLE</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rice and ice, it's a way of life!]]></description>
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<p>The Vietnamese eat rice in so many different forms, it truly is amazing: fried rice, steamed rice, rice noodles, rice vermicelli, rice paper, fried rice flour, sticky rice, rice cakes, rice soup, rice pancakes, rice doughnuts&#8230; I&#8217;ve even found a place that makes young rice ice-cream!</p>
<p>Consequently, they cook rice in different ways. One method consists of spreading rice that&#8217;s already been cooked on a newspaper and let it dry outside on a roof or on the ground, under the sunlight.</p>
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<p>How do they use it afterwards? I don&#8217;t know, and I prefer not to!</p>
<div id="attachment_7465" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 487px"><a href="http://www.jetsetzero.tv/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/birds-cage2.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-7465   " title="Birds in a cage" src="http://www.jetsetzero.tv/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/birds-cage2-682x1024.jpg" alt="" width="477" height="717" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Next to my window...birds!</p></div>
<p>The Vietnamese are very fond of iced coffee or iced milk, and they need a lot of ice to quench everyone&#8217;s thirst including the tourists&#8217;. Thus, every early morning on Bui Vien street, a few people cut huge ice pillars into small chunks to supply all the little shops and street vendors.</p>
<div id="attachment_7466" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 650px"><a href="http://www.jetsetzero.tv/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/ice.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-7466" title="Ice " src="http://www.jetsetzero.tv/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/ice.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="480" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Ice choppers on the street.</p></div>
<p>* * * * * * *</p>
<p>STREET STYLE</p>
<p>Les Vietnamiens mangent du riz sous tellement de formes, c&#8217;en est vraiment incroyable: riz poêlé, riz vapeur, nouilles de riz, vermicelles de riz, frittes de farine de riz, riz gluant, soupe de riz, pancakes de riz, beignets de riz&#8230; Je connais même un endroit où on fait de la glace au jeune riz.</p>
<p>Par conséquent, le riz se cuisine de multiples façons. Une méthode consiste à parsemer du riz cuit sur une feuille de papier journal, posée sur le toit ou à même le sol, pour le laisser sécher au soleil.</p>
<p>Qu&#8217;en font-ils ensuite? Je ne sais pas, et je préfère ne pas savoir!</p>
<p>Les Vietnamiens sont aussi très friands de café glacé et de lait glacé, ce qui nécessite beaucoup de glaçons pour étancher leur soif, en plus de celle des touristes. Ainsi, tous les matins au chant du coq dans la rue Bui Vien, on casse de grosses colonnes de glace en morçeaux pour achalander les petits commerçants et les marchands ambulants.</p>
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		<title>National Geographic Traveler</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Being a part of Jet Set Zero is like being in an indie band: no one knows who you are or really understands what you&#8217;re doing, and everyone either thinks your ballsy, or incredibly stupid.  But you do it for the love of your art&#8211; for us, our &#8220;sound&#8221; is the unique feel of [...]]]></description>
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<p>Being a part of Jet Set Zero is like being in an indie band: no one knows who you are or really understands what you&#8217;re doing, and everyone either thinks your ballsy, or incredibly stupid.  But you do it for the love of your art&#8211; for us, our &#8220;sound&#8221; is the unique feel of our content and our personalities. You feel our sound the best in Season 1; you hear it best in Season 3. Ultimately, though, a little recognition goes a long way.</p>
<p>So we have a press list, that cost us a lot to acquire *cough*westoleit*cough*, and Outlook has this great feature called Mail Merge. So basically, you write up a press release and send it out to a brilliant friend to review, then hold your breath while it shoots out to over 3000 contacts.</p>
<p>Is this spam? Probably. But when you&#8217;re a struggling indie production company, you need to bend the rules every once in awhile.</p>
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<p>This process occurred sometime around October, with my tiny MacBook sending out emails on turbo. Well, aside from a smalltown retiree newsletter, we got very little response&#8230; that is, except for a small magazine called NATIONAL MOTHERFUCKING GEOGRAPHIC.</p>
<p>So our thanks go out to the editors of NMFG for putting another blip of recognition on the radar screen of our lives. Go out and buy your copy of the March National Geographic Traveler today!</p>
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		<title>VIETNAM &#8211;to&#8211;&gt; ECUADOR</title>
		<link>http://www.jetsetzero.tv/2010/03/03/vietnam-to-ecuador/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jen, Kris and Serene are gone, but I'm not!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jen, Kris and Serene are gone, but I&#8217;m not! I&#8217;ve decided to stay in Vietnam one more month to work and put as much money aside as possible before &#8230; Ecuador!!!!</p>
<p>Si Jen, Kris et Serene sont parties, moi je suis toujours à Saigon! J&#8217;ai décidé de prolonger mon séjour d&#8217;un mois pour travailler et mettre autant d&#8217;argent de côté que possible avant &#8230; l&#8217;Equateur!!!!</p>
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		<title>BELAUBRE. RINGS A BELL?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While roaming the streets of Saigon, I saw a huge billboard showing soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo promoting motor oil.]]></description>
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<p>While roaming the streets of Saigon, I saw a huge billboard showing soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo promoting motor oil.</p>
<p>What I had never noticed was the big advertisement above the entrance of Ben Thanh market: Frédéric Belaubre for Adidas. And please tell me, who is Frédéric Belaubre?<br />
He is a FRENCH triathlete!</p>
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<p>To be honest, I didn&#8217;t know him until I saw his face at the market. He is not exactly a superstar, compared to Cristiano Ronaldo. All the better for him! A French, relatively unknown athlete in one of the biggest markets of Saigon that&#8217;s very popular among tourists! I can&#8217;t get over it!</p>
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<p>* * * * * * *</p>
<p>BELAUBRE. CA VOUS DIT QUELQUE CHOSE?</p>
<p>En flânant dans les rue de Ho Chi Minh Ville, j&#8217;ai vu un immense panneau publicitaire représentant Cristiano Ronaldo, l&#8217;actuelle vedette du football, faisant la promotion d&#8217;huile de moteur.</p>
<p>Ce que je n&#8217;avais jamais remarqué, c&#8217;est la gigantesque publicité au-dessus de l&#8217;entrée du marché Ben Thanh: Frédéric Belaubre pour Adidas. Et dites-moi, qui est donc Frédéric Belaubre?<br />
Un triathlète FRANCAIS!</p>
<p>Pour être honnête, je ne le connaissais pas avant d&#8217;avoir vu son visage au marché. Ce n&#8217;est pas exactement une superstar, comparé à Cristiano Ronaldo. Mais tant mieux pour lui! Un Français, relativement peu connu, dans l&#8217;un des plus grands marchés de Saigon largement fréquenté par les touristes! Je n&#8217;en reviens pas!</p>
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		<title>GODDAM HEAT!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've been sweating buckets and buckets and buckets....]]></description>
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<p>For the past month in Saigon I&#8217;ve sweated buckets. The weather is changing, I can feel it. It&#8217;s so hot! The weather forecast says temperatures go up to 35°C but it feels like it&#8217;s so much more. And it&#8217;s not even the rainy season yet, when humidity makes everything so much worse.<br />
I can hardly bear it. One evening I went to the aerobics class in the park and I really thought I was going to pass out. March and April are supposed to be the hottest months in southern Vietnam, but here too climate change is a reality. Or so it seems.</p>
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<p>* * * * * * *</p>
<p>BON SANG DE &#8230; CHALEUR!</p>
<p>Voilà un mois que je transpire à grosses gouttes. Le temps est en train de changer, ça se sent. Il fait si chaud. Les prévisions météorologiques disent qu&#8217;on atteint les 35°C mais on dirait qu&#8217;il fait bien plus. Et ce n&#8217;est même pas la saison des pluies, quand l&#8217;humidité rend tout moins supportable.<br />
J&#8217;ai du mal à m&#8217;y faire. Un soir pendant le cours de gym dans le parc, j&#8217;ai vraiment cru que j&#8217;allais m&#8217;évanouir. Mars et avril sont censés être les mois les plus chauds de l&#8217;année dans le sud du Viêtnam, mais ici aussi le changement climatique est une réalité, ou semble-t-il.</p>
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		<title>The $3 BBQ</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What will I do when a freshly grilled tuna dinner with all the fixings costs more than $3? *sob*]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In Sihanoukville (on the shores of Southern Cambodia), everywhere you look offers the $3 BBQ. For this price, they will grill for you anything they offer &#8211; tuna, barracuda, squid, etc., all freshly caught. I flirted with the cook this particular night and actually got a filet and a half of delicious tuna, rice, salad and garlic bread, all for $3.</p>
<p>I seriously don&#8217;t know what I am going to do when I eventually leave this continent.</p>
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		<title>NEW YEAR&#8217;S EVE IN DALAT (XMAS#3)</title>
		<link>http://www.jetsetzero.tv/2010/02/23/new-years-eve-in-dalat-xmas3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurene</dc:creator>
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New Year&#8217;s Eve didn&#8217;t start so well. I had a very difficult time finding a hotel room in Dalat as everything had been booked months before due to the flower festival Dalat was hosting. It was obvious I wasn&#8217;t going to be able to stay in Dalat as long as I had planned. [...]]]></description>
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<p>New Year&#8217;s Eve didn&#8217;t start so well. I had a very difficult time finding a hotel room in Dalat as everything had been booked months before due to the flower festival Dalat was hosting. It was obvious I wasn&#8217;t going to be able to stay in Dalat as long as I had planned. Over lunch, I asked my waitress for some tips. Ngan said there was no hope to find a room as Dalat would be crowded with Vietnamese tourists over the next few days. </p>
<p>Despite this bad piece of news we became friends and decided to spend New Year&#8217;s Eve together.<br />
Her younger sister, Phuong,  and her aunt, Hong- a baker- joined us too. We had a night stroll hoping we would see fireworks, but there were none.</p>
<p>At 10.00pm Ngan had to go back to her five month old baby. That&#8217;s when Hong told me she used to go to a French high school in Dalat. She doesn&#8217;t speak much French anymore but somehow, she remembers the 1960s songs she used to listen. So here we are, in a café on New Year&#8217;s Eve, singing old tunes like France Gall&#8217;s &#8221;Poupée de cire, poupée de son&#8221; and Françoise Hardy&#8217;s &#8221;Tous les garçons et les filles de mon âge.&#8221; Unforgettable!</p>
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REVEILLON A DALAT</p>
<p>La veille du nouvel an j&#8217;étais à Dalat et tout n&#8217;allait pas au mieux. Impossible de trouver une chambre d&#8217;hôtel. Tout était complet dû aux floralies de Dalat, l&#8217;évènement exceptionnel de l&#8217;année qui visiblement attirait des milliers de touristes vietnamiens. De toute évidence, je n&#8217;allais pas pouvoir rester ici autant que prévu.</p>
<p>Pendant mon déjeuner dans un petit restaurant, je demande à la serveuse quelques conseils. Ngan dit que c&#8217;est sans espoir, tout est vraiment complet. Malgré cette mauvaise nouvelle nous sympathisons et prenons rendez-vous pour le soir-même, après son travail, pour fêter le nouvel an ensemble. </p>
<p>Phuong, sa petite soeur, et Hong, sa tante boulangère, se joignent à nous. Pendant notre balade nocturne nous espérons voir un feu d&#8217;artifice, mais non, rien! </p>
<p>A 22h, Ngan doit retourner auprès de son bébé âgé de cinq mois. C&#8217;est alors que Hong me raconte que dans son enfance, elle allait au lycée français de Dalat. Si elle ne parle quasiment plus la langue, elle se souvient des chansons françaises des années 60 qu&#8217;elle écoutait dans sa jeunesse. Nous voilà donc toutes deux dans un café à fredonner des vieux airs genre &#8221;Poupée de cire, poupée de son&#8221; de France Gall, et &#8221;Tous les garçons et les filles de mon âge&#8221; de Françoise Hardy. Mémorable!</p>
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		<title>CHRISTMAS EVE IN TAN THIEN (Xmas #2)</title>
		<link>http://www.jetsetzero.tv/2010/02/20/christmas-eve-in-tan-thien-xmas-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[December 24th is a normal day in Vietnam. Except for Anhs's family who is catholic and celebrates Christmas.]]></description>
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<p>December 24th is a normal day in Vietnam. Except for Anhs&#8217;s family who is catholic and celebrates Christmas.</p>
<p>Au Viêtnam, le 24 décembre est un jour tout à fait normal. Sauf pour Anh et sa famille, qui sont catholiques et fêtent Noël.</p>
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