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Joe is giving management’s response to a rather brilliant move made by the TDT team representing Hansea workers during the negotiation of ground rules.  Dean Hoa told us about 10 days ago that there was a request from Hansea, which has a huge factory up in the Cu Chi Industrial Zone, to have us goContinue reading “Hansea next week”

After lunch with Vy’s family, we went on a walk around the neighborhood. A wonderful day. Thanks to An for carrying her camera and asking a neighbor child to take this photo. This is the wind blowing the curtains in the room at Vy’s grandmother’s house where we took a nap after an enormous lunch.Continue reading “Cu Chi, Independence Day, Vy and An”

This is at the “new” restaurant that had just opened two years ago, down the street from TDT, the place where the huge eel escaped from the tank and the chef had to go chasing it under people’s tables and brag it and whack it like a whip. It has by now settled down intoContinue reading “Too much going on”

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”

  That’s Country Joe McDonald sitting down in the middle. He’s the one who wrote: And it’s one, two, three, What are we fighting for? Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn, Next stop is Vietnam; And it’s five, six, seven , Open up the pearly gates, Well there ain’t no time to wonderContinue reading “One, two, three, what are we fighting for ….”

The hillside above the Coleman farm, on the day of Ralph Coleman’s Celebration. Ralph Coleman died in November 2016. By noon today, when the celebration was scheduled to start, there were hundreds of cars up in this field. He was a farmer. He cut lumber, made maple syrup, and officiated at weddings. He was licensedContinue reading “June 26, 2017: Mapping apple trees in Southern Vermont”