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I am very grateful to Nguyet for inviting me to her village, Tien Cam.
Life is simple and authentic there. They sleep on hard wood beds with a straw mat on them. There is no real shower-yet (Nguyet said)! They use a bucket of cold water and a plastic pan behind a sheet. But trust me, at the end of the day you don’t want a hot shower anyway!

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Our friend Nguyet invited me to her village to celebrate Vietnamese New Year: ”Tet”. During Tet, all the Vietnamese go home to stay with their family for three days. In short, Tet is a family holidays when you don’t do much besides visiting relatives and neighbors, eating Tet sweets and candies, drinking rice wine (or is it vodka?!) and giving lucky money to the youth.

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