Author Archives: tatteredsleeves

i can’t get motivated.  keep…coming back….and yet i don’t really think i listen to myself.  maybe i have it all wrong, but boy do i want some pancakes.  is this getting old yet?   Its like pouring syrup on a fat stack of blueberry pancakes that you know you’ll never finish but keep piling anywayContinue reading “a constant flashback”

Home next week.  chapel hill a few days later.  a little bit speechless.  but not really, no, not at all. 

4.17.06   Identity, pressure, expectations…how I perceive myself and this country.  I really don’t know where to begin. Translating is really hard.  Its disheartening how much I don’t know about this country and this language.  Emily said its not like I can know these words…just because I’m Vietnamese.  but for some reason that’s not veryContinue reading “things are easier to post when old.”

vietnam is amaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing. 

definitely becoming a fan of this double post thing.  do me a favor.  don’t read too much into it.  there is much left unsaid. 3.23.2006 whatever it is, own it. how do you find the balance?….be enough…be…ok with who you are and where you are.  The future.  What happens when taking one step at aContinue reading “two more.”

2.6.06 Blank.  Its one of those lazy kinda months.  Too lazy to write, to take pictures…to do anything but just sit at home and watch.  Like that picture judy gave me.  Hah…what a shame, eh?  Part of me can’t wait till someone else comes here….so I can share this experience…in a language that I sadlyContinue reading “a post. or two.”

http://www.snapfish.com/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=38186161/a=16844520_45500492/t_=16844520 try again…? a different one.  check that album two thing.

hope this works. props to molly for the pics. they’re of what we’ve done so far….i haven’t been taking too many pics. but these are waaaaaaaaay awesome. i personally like album two…the backpack sequence. http://www.snapfish.com/share/p=954261141025494932/l=83805261/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB

sorry kids, not a real update.  i do miss you all, dearly, though.  seems like a whole different world…there..and here.  but anywho, just thought i’d post my addy. Sandy Phamc/o Brian Zottoli, SIT Academic Director 161/3 Nguyen Van Thu Street Dakao Ward, District 1 Ho Chi Minh City, VIET NAM        later kids. Continue reading

to be honest, i’m numb to this whole ordeal.  any expectations feel like pins and needles against that constant battle with pride…so i try to remain speechless, in an attempt to shut myself up before i say/show/do anything that i will regret.  but then again, there’s always that no regrets philosophy.  i guess the pointContinue reading “leavin…on a jet plane…”