Monthly Archives: August 2017

Main entrance to the new library. An elevator for disabled students exists.  We go to bed at night saying, “Well, we did some work today!” Now if we could only get some exercise…. So this post will be about the library, research, and the faculty research program. I have a lot of photos of theContinue reading “Library, Research Club”

  Us on the stairs going up to our office in C building. The spots are on the mirror, not on either the camera or me.   Joe’s class starts at 9:25. It is now 9:48. The reason why it hasn’t started yet is because the publicity people came to his classroom right at 9:25Continue reading “The New Wrapped in the Old Wrapped in the New”

The semester starting at TDT is like a huge machine coming to life. Outside our door starting soon after 6 am there were classes in the swimming pool, tennis classes, something else in the background, martial arts in the gym. Lots of mothers sitting on the benches while the young students found out where theirContinue reading “First day of semester, August 2017”

Coffee shop in the Duong So 8 neighborhood; houses worth $1M, occupied by state employees and businessmen. Along the river; across it, we could see the orange-red tower of the new TDT library.  Friday was very full. We “the foreign experts” have a very fancy, brand new office over in C Building, room 206. FourContinue reading “Sunday morning after sleeping nearly 18 hours, maybe more”

Last image from San Francisco, taken out of the window of the bus as we go to the Viet Nam consulate to get our visas (business, $110 each): it’s an ad for “FREE CITY,” which refers to the fact that for San Francisco residents tuition at City College is free this semester (and for theContinue reading “Back to Viet Nam August 2017”