Rose and Sam's Excellent Adventure

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The Great Homecoming

Sam | March 27, 2010

With mixed emotions, I hereby announce we have booked our tickets for our homecoming. We will arrive home on the night of the 28th, and will be fielding questions at a seminar the following afternoon at the Hyatt, in Perth, followed by a quick press conference in Munich, then off for a spot of bother [...]

Keely and Pa’s Vietnam Travel

Sam | March 2, 2010

Pa arrives on Thursday and I’ve just heard word that Keels is booked in from April 20th – May 10th.
Bring the noise.

Keely Update

Sam | February 18, 2010

A quick update on what Keely’s doing.
After a quick jaunt across the nullabor on a postie bike, he’s residing in Tasmania (that was the highly abridged version). He’s booking tickets to visit us in Vietnam for Mid April till March.
Shits n giggles will be posted.
In the meantime. Here’s a fail…

Visas, Homecoming and Plans

Sam | February 2, 2010

Hey kids,
Been a long time without posts, not without good reason. I figure you can only take so many stories about kids doing cute and stupid stuff so I kept them to a fair minimum.
We just paid $230USD each, for 3 month SINGLE ENTRY visas which has made us feel mildly raped to say [...]

A rising Star is born (and I don’t mean Jesus)

Rose | December 17, 2009

Hiya All.
Well things have been a bit crazy here we have had chock-a-block visitors. Jeani, then Tom and Nick (with some over lapping).
Was great to have Jeani Beanie come visit, haven’t seen her in a year or two (or seven actually) and we had a fantastic time she flew out 6th Dec.
Nic is still with [...]

Vietnam Independence Day 02-09-09

Sam | September 3, 2009

Long time no post! It’s been so long, this post might be very short.
We celebrated Independence Day today, which marks the Vietnamese politely asking the French to leave and the French saying “Sure, fine. Let’s go. We’d had enough anyway”. Actually, I think it was a little more involved than that, something about Dien [...]

Little Ducks

Rose | July 13, 2009

Rainy day greetings to you all,
Hanoi appears to be slowly drowning, but Sam has ventured forth to perform the Noble task of teaching English to four year olds.
Finished my first official day today. It was Music in English, so lots of singing and dancing, let me share one with you as no one should be [...]

Kancho: The Real Arc of Instability.

Sam | July 5, 2009

Today, I finally learned the inconvenient truth that there’s nothing more unsettling than a 6 y/old’s wirey, Vietnamese fingers up your bunghole when you’re not expecting it.
If you’re unsure, exactly, what the art of Kancho is, visit this link which is the Google Image Search for “Kancho”.
I copped it sweet, and Phuket Thailand, [...]

Hanoi Botanical Gardens and Creative Writing

Rose | July 4, 2009

Into The Breech…

Sam | July 3, 2009

Tomorrow. Day one of Sammy Solo.
I’ve got the kindy class in the morning (pictured). It’s art day and this month’s theme (set by the vietnamese government) is colour and balloons so it’s colouring in balloons time. Let’s review those colours kids!
Then I have the class I’ve been warned about all week. It’s the difficult [...]