A lot has happened in this last month, but I will revisit the beginning of this Lunar Year. At midnight on Lunar New Year's Eve, I went out with my family members to different pagodas and temples around Hanoi. I think we visited five temples and everyone single one of them except the last one was jam packed. I felt like a plush toy in a claw crane machine game. Throughout the night I counted only one other foreigner. Like me he was standing back to the side while people pushed forward to leave money on the altars. I wondered if he had come here out of simple curiosity and then saw that he was clutching a purse. Ah, a foreign boyfriend.
We ended up getting back around 4:30am. The next day Bryn and I went to visit a mutual friend and her family for dinner.
The day after that, I went around Hanoi with my family to visit their various relatives. Some of them I had never met before and some of them I had. It is always interesting meeting my host families relatives because I'm never quite sure who will pop up. Our visitations ended at the house of an uncle that I met when I went to Nghe An.
Then the next day I headed out for China.
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