my reality of traveling in se asia during covd19
I’m writing from what was supposed to be the last leg of our trip: 2 weeks spent in Hoi An, Vietnam, a small beach town that is also a UNESCO world heritage site. We were thinking it would be the perfect place to end our 7 week trip, allowing us to wind down after being so “on-the-go”, and one last “hoorah” for me before going back to work when the spring semester started, which was supposed to be February 24 th . As I write this, we are in our first full day in Hoi An, and instead of me thinking about the upcoming semester, we are planning an impromptu trip to Bali! It’s what every student (and surely some teachers) dream of, an extended winter break and an unknown school start date. However, not under these circumstances. Obviously, this odd stage of being in limbo with a major change of plans is because of the Coronavirus. This blog is not one of my best. It kind of feels like a rant that is a rambling combination of what we’ve been up to with bits about the virus woven in
