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| August 27th, 2012
Bahn Mi was definitely not the most delicious food I ate on this trip. After the Creative Kid Project ended, I set off for all of the places I had not been able to visit before, especially those rumored to have interesting new foods to... -
| August 6th, 2012
It happened. We worked for four months, assembled a team of committed volunteers, and ran a six-day program for which the most common piece of feedback (from kids and parents alike) was that it should have been longer. Not bad for a little pilot... -
| July 17th, 2012
Linh's younger brother, Kien, walks into the house with his red backpack slung over his shoulder and the signature white iPhone headphones running down from his ears. He dances slightly to the beats as he drops his bag lightly onto the floor and... -
| July 14th, 2012
Last time, that English classroom really did feel like a prison cell (and I felt like the jailer). This time, it is a bit better. A couple from San Francisco (who are staying with Mike, the Couch Sufing guy) and I are teaching -- and we have the... -
| June 29th, 2012
My butt is starting to hurt. We are not even halfway through and I am already getting fidgety. The small room's dull beige walls are covered in layers of scratch marks and doodles, giving it a somewhat prison-cell-like feel. Covered windows and... -
| June 27th, 2012
The ideal of economic development. To my left, a twenty-something year-old, with fake hipster glasses and slicked-back hair, mouths the lyrics of all the songs and bounces slightly to the imported beats, while pouring his friends drinks from a... -
| June 18th, 2012
In many places around the world, young foreigners on the streets are offered cocaine or weed; in Hanoi it's motorbike rentals. As I trek back to Linh's house from my first Vietnamese language lesson, feeling reasonably accomplished for the first day... -
| June 14th, 2012
"It's Vietnam, be reckless," she says. We are weaving through the after-work traffic on the streets of Hanoi and I am quickly learning the rules of the road. Rule #1: focus on what's going on in front of you. Rule #2: don't pay so much attention to...
Evan Schwartz
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I am rising senior who asks too many big questions and who loves good food. Big questions and food, along with my Independent Concentration called Education & Political Economy, have led me to Vietnam for the summer.
At Brown, I work as a coordinator of Independent Studies and Independent Concentrations and I try to stir up a good kind of trouble with the Brown Conversation. In and outside of classes I am interested in how education fits into the broader context of society, politics, and economics (see the blog description for how this relates to Vietnam).
