Hello!
Because Emma got her passport on Thursday and we (Isaac and Jonah) want to go home early, we are going home almost a week earlier than planned! We will be leaving tonight from Hanoi and arrive in MTL Sunday pm.
We can't wait to be home in Canada at our red door!
Friday, January 29, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
We are still in Hanoi and will be here until our return to Canada next week. We are still waiting for Emma's Canadian passport.
Yesterday we visited the Temple of Literature, the Fine Arts Museum, and the Museum of Military History. Our favourite was the one about the wars because there were a lot of planes, helicopters, and tanks. Mama can't put any pictures onto the blog today because the connection is too slow right now. She will try again tomorrow. Everyone is well. We really like getting comments and emails so please keep sending them!
Right now Emma is taking a nap. Baba and Isaac have gone outside for a haircut. Jonah has just finished up some homework. Maybe we'll do some shopping later.
Yesterday we visited the Temple of Literature, the Fine Arts Museum, and the Museum of Military History. Our favourite was the one about the wars because there were a lot of planes, helicopters, and tanks. Mama can't put any pictures onto the blog today because the connection is too slow right now. She will try again tomorrow. Everyone is well. We really like getting comments and emails so please keep sending them!
Right now Emma is taking a nap. Baba and Isaac have gone outside for a haircut. Jonah has just finished up some homework. Maybe we'll do some shopping later.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Early this morning photos could be loaded up to the blogspot, but now the system has slowed down again so mama will try tomorrow to upload more pictures.
As we visit different places, we can see the influence of the Indian subcontinent, China, France, and now Britian and the US on the face of Vietnam. We visited a museum and Amar said, "How did these Indian gods get here?" Then we visit another touristic site and the Han Chinese architecture is very present.
Many people here think that Jonah is Chinese and Isaac is Vietnamese. Mama did her homework and it turns out that Jonah is Han Chinese, the majority ethnic group in China. However, Isaac is Jhuang Chinese, a minority group. It turns out that 88% of Vietnamese are of the Kinh ethnic group. Kinh in Vietnam is the same ethnic group as Zhuang in China. All that to say that: Isaac and Emma are of the same ethnic group!
We are all interconnected as human beings and all come from one person. And as mama likes to point out, somehow our family must look alike because we are all created in the image of God and we are all from one race: the human one.
Ta-ta for now,
The Rawal Bouquet
Hanoi
As we visit different places, we can see the influence of the Indian subcontinent, China, France, and now Britian and the US on the face of Vietnam. We visited a museum and Amar said, "How did these Indian gods get here?" Then we visit another touristic site and the Han Chinese architecture is very present.
Many people here think that Jonah is Chinese and Isaac is Vietnamese. Mama did her homework and it turns out that Jonah is Han Chinese, the majority ethnic group in China. However, Isaac is Jhuang Chinese, a minority group. It turns out that 88% of Vietnamese are of the Kinh ethnic group. Kinh in Vietnam is the same ethnic group as Zhuang in China. All that to say that: Isaac and Emma are of the same ethnic group!
We are all interconnected as human beings and all come from one person. And as mama likes to point out, somehow our family must look alike because we are all created in the image of God and we are all from one race: the human one.
Ta-ta for now,
The Rawal Bouquet
Hanoi
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