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Adorableness Abounded

It began — as so many of our travel adventures do — with food. We’d stopped on the narrow, rutted road to explore fields filled with vegetables and herbs when suddenly the air was filled with whoops and shouts as a gaggle of young children came racing towards us.

One of the women in our group had spotted a small school on the other side of the road and asked the teacher if we could visit. The children were taking no chances that we’d change our minds.

They danced around us, hugged our knees, leaped into our arms and said “Hell-O! Hell-O” over and over. Back at the schrool they sang us a song and looked through our camera lenses and hugged us some more.

I pretended to be a locomotive and soon had a chain of living train cars behind me.
["What did you do in school today, Tamh?"
"Pushed a fat American lady around the playgorund!"]

I broke free for a moment to peek into one of the two classrooms and found this little girl working away, completely uninterested in the silliness outside. I predict she’ll be the first female president of Vietnam.

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