Vietnam and Me #1/3

It was all started back to the end of 2015, exactly three years ago, when I was spending time privately with my pink laptop at a winter-cold-night in Suwon, South Korea.

I was there for my exchange semester in which also became a fire-starter to my global-wandering-journey. All I wanted to do back then was to get a second bite at the cherry to step my feet to an unknown degree in the world.

Shortly, it was the moment leading me to apply and finally arranged a chance to come to Vietnam, for the first time in July 2016.

It was not categorized as an easy matter, for me in order to finally afford myself financially and got all preps for that youth forum. Just a month before it, Allah also blessed me with a summer camp in a neighboring country of Vietnam, Thailand, where I made some Vietnamese whom I might talk often in this further typed talk.

Furthermore, I debutted my first solo international flight to Ho Chi Minh from Jakarta. I had a very early morning flight that brings me to Da Nang, the location the event took place. Being greeted by the rain at night in HCMC, a first Vietnamese friend I would mention, Matt a.k.a Matthew welcomed me. We spent some times chit-chatting back in the day in a coffee shop nearby before finally heading back to the airport to spend a night, in a random opened-area-restaurant, on-not-so-hygiene-couch. I could not describe the rest of the story. LOL. That’s the highlight of my HCMC first visit, cause basically it’s all that I had.

I arrived safe and sound in DNC and continued the program. I might talk about the AYF experiences separately but another highlight for this was all the people I met in the program. Undoubtedly, we did make a solid and warm circle on the first day and it’s clear to me, we loved each and every person and every moment there including our mom-dad-uncle of the event (re: coordinators).

It was completely not my style to straight headed back to home country after the program. LOL. It is a sure thing that I extend my visit there in DNC. One thing none should follow from me was: I had not purchased any flight for going home at that moment. I remembered I just bought it on the last day of the event if I call my memory right. Therefore, this story extension might or might not be planned.