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	<title>NOT KEEPING SCORE &#187; Adventures in Asia</title>
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	<description>Taking no prisoners. Including herself.</description>
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		<title>Return to the West</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to popular request, and the pokings of my own instinct, I&#8217;ve come back to California. I had just secured a job teaching English for $20/hr (which is nothing to scoff at these days), had rented an apartment, and was learning important new phrases in Vietnamese, such as &#8220;How many rooms does your house have?&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>R&amp;R</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I skipped school, did 5 hours of yoga, got an hour massage, made myself a PB&#38;J, and ate an entire pineapple while watching 4 back-to-back episodes of Weeds on DVD. Sometimes, it just takes a little western R&#38;R to alleviate the home sickness. That, and I talked to my boyfriend, best friend, and mother [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kindness of Familiars</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello, Hanoi (Part 11 of Many) Across the street a man is loading into a hand-drawn cart dozens of red bricks. Each brick has 4 cylindrical holes, and one by one, he lays them on top of their comrades, each singing a soft little clank as they fall. *     *     * I am beginning to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tieng Viet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello, Hanoi (Part 10 of Many) I&#8217;ve started Vietnamese language classes at University of Hanoi, and moved to Dong Da district, closer to the campus. I rented a room in a house, where the water is bottled and there is even a washing machine. So much for eeking it out local-style. I love being a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bearing Witness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Unthinkable Loss]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello, Hanoi (Part 9 of Many) I have not posted for a few days because sometimes this world cuts me like a stone, and I have to wander around half-dead until breathable air arrives. How much pain must there be before it becomes unforgivable? What happens if we stop accepting and refuse to bear witness? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vegetarian in Vietnam</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And now, a brief word from the Ministry of Health. *     *     * Being a vegetarian in Northern California is almost clichéd; however, being a vegetarian in Vietnam is no small feat. The Vietnamese diet is based largely around white rice and noodles, with meat in almost every vegetable dish (and most noodle bowls are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hold the &#8216;H&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hai au]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hai phong]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello, Hanoi (Part 8 of Many) More stories from my first couple of weeks&#8230; *    *    * It is Têt, and Bắc has invited me to spend this special new year&#8217;s week &#8212; a week so fantastic it is like New Year&#8217;s &#38; Christmas &#38; 4th of July &#38; everyone&#8217;s birthday combined, I am told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2-14</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Saturday is February 14th. For most people it is a day of romance (Hallmark or otherwise); but it is also my brother&#8217;s birthday. I&#8217;m taking the weekend alone in Sapa to write, think, and honor my only and lost brother. Just for him, I booked the deluxe suite with double-balcony views. &#8220;You only live [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love in the Chocolateria</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello, Hanoi (Part 6 of Many) Still remembering my first days here&#8230; *     *     * The rest of my day was full of pot holes and mud. Everything I wrote smelled like eggs, and I got lost 7 times over.  When I got back home to Bắc&#8217;s place, I swore I was buying my plane [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second Morning</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello, Hanoi (Part 5 of Many) I am sitting on the bed&#8211; on &#8220;my&#8221; bed for the next few months, I suppose. It is a little over a foot off the floor, made from dark mahogany-looking wood, with a woven grass mat on top. My friend and host, Bắc, has given me a couple of [...]]]></description>
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