{"id":1048,"date":"2015-11-17T14:30:06","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T19:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2015-11-02T22:19:08","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T03:19:08","slug":"reflections-on-vietnam-verse-three-an-overview-of-the-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/2015\/11\/17\/reflections-on-vietnam-verse-three-an-overview-of-the-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on Vietnam &#8211; Verse Three:  An Overview of the Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1090\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1090\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2015\/10\/VietnamMap-462x806.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1090\" src=\"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2015\/10\/VietnamMap-462x806-172x300.jpg\" alt=\"Map of Vietnam with red stars to pinpoint places we visited\" width=\"290\" height=\"509\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1090\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #000080\">Red stars show the places we visited<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\">Over the course of 17 days we traveled the length of Vietnam from Ho Chi Minh City to Saigon and Ha Long Bay. We had four in-country flights and spent hours on buses.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #333399\">We:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399\">Interacted with social work students at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Ho Chi Ming City<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399\">Delivered donated supplies and played games with children at the De Nhu Nghia Center for the Blind<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399\">Delivered toys, supplies (milk, vitamins), and therapy equipment (feeding utensils, splinting materials, exercise equipment) to the Thi Nghe Orphanage<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399\">Made dream catchers and danced with the girls at the Warm House School for Ethnic Females<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399\">Delivered supplies, helped to till a new garden, move charcoal and brush from a kitchen renovation (disturbing a very large rat in the process), and played with children at the House of Love Orphanage<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399\">Traveled to a rural area to deliver bicycles, rice and cooking oil<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1151\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1151\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2015\/10\/IMG_0825-e1446520480752.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1151\" src=\"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2015\/10\/IMG_0825-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"2 Vietnamese workers welcoming the group at a vocational training center\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #333399\">Welcome ceremony at the Danang Vocational Training Center<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\">Delivered supplies and spent time with children and youth at the Danang Red Cross Orphanage and the Danang Vocational Training Center for Children and Young Adults with Disabilities<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399\">Visited a nursing home in Hoi An, delivering lucky money and six packs of a tonic made from birds\u2019 spit<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399\">Sponsored field trips on the beach for children and young adults from the House of Love, Warm House, and Danang Vocational Training Center for Children and Young Adults with Disabilities<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1086\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1086\" style=\"width: 361px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2015\/10\/paintingtrees-1024x757.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1086\" src=\"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2015\/10\/paintingtrees-1024x757-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"Painting trees at Ha Tinh Orphanage\" width=\"361\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2015\/10\/paintingtrees-1024x757-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2015\/10\/paintingtrees-1024x757.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 361px) 100vw, 361px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #333399\">Painting trees at the Ha Tinh Orphanage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\">Delivered supplies, dedicated a soccer field, packed Sunflower Bags, and painted trees at the Ha Tinh Orphanage<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399\">Along with adolescents from the Ha Tinh Orphanage delivered bicycles and Sunflower Bags to disadvantaged youth in a rural area outside of Ha Tinh<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399\">Learned to safely manage crossing very busy streets without cross works or other directional signals<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399\">Experimented with different foods: learned to love pho<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399\">Visited the Cu Chi Tunnels, Marble Mountain, and The American War Museum<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399\">Sojourned in Hoi An, a Unesco World Heritage Site, where we learned about silk-making<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399\">Toured Hanoi, visiting night markets and watching the water puppets<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399\"><span style=\"color: #333399\">Took an overnight cruise on Ha Long Bay<\/span><\/span>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1084\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1084\" style=\"width: 688px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2015\/10\/IMG_0985-1024x767.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1084\" src=\"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2015\/10\/IMG_0985-1024x767-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"water view with pink flowers - Hoi An\" width=\"688\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2015\/10\/IMG_0985-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2015\/10\/IMG_0985-1024x767-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1084\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hoi An<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\">[Verses 4-5&#8230;to be continued]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the course of 17 days we traveled the length of Vietnam from Ho Chi Minh City to Saigon and Ha Long Bay. We had four in-country flights and spent hours on buses.\u00a0We: Interacted with social work students at the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/2015\/11\/17\/reflections-on-vietnam-verse-three-an-overview-of-the-trip\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reflections on Vietnam &#8211; Verse Three:  An Overview of the Trip<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-accomplishments","tag-judy-ericksen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1148,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}