Anna's journeys

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Anna's journeys

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On June 14 2012 Hana, Kai and I left Hanoi, bound for Manila to meet up with Keisuke and embark on many new adventures in yet another new country.

We will always miss Hanoi and Vietnam, its beauty, noise, food, lakes, alleys, cafes, pagodas, chaos and craziness and always remember the happy years we spent there. Most of all we will of course miss all the people we've met; all our friends still in Hanoi and those already elsewhere. Luckily, you are still around somewhere, the world is small and we will se eachother again. This is certainly not a good bye, just a SEE YOU AGAIN - Hẹn Gặp Lại!

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Thoa

One of the hardest parts was to say good bye to Thoa, who's been around almost all the time for more than three years. We still miss her everyday, her smile, positive energy and fantastic food - and all her hard work.

End of school year with End of Year Concert

School also came to an end, and the day after we left Hanoi. The traditional End of Year Concert was, also traditionally, held on a particularly hot and sunny day, this time at the pagoda around the corner from the school. Hana as Little Mermaid and Kai as Kung Fu Master, they and all other kids did great.

A mysterious and misty morning. Or maybe just hot. Free hats for all.

 Girls waiting to perform. Hana and Rebecka as a team of course.

 Blossoms 2 performing Yellow Submarine.

 Stars checking out the other classes' performances.

The cool crowd. Tobias, Thao and Ben.

Dressed and ready.

Kung Fu Masters, pretty dancers and a fair bit of chaos and fun.

 The fish tank ceremony. All kids leaving school also leave a fish in the tank so all friends will always be around, in our minds and hearts at least. Wonder if fish are still alive...

Star boys. Hoang, Zach, Hosea, Kai.

Moving

Suddenly all got very hectic and not until now, almost half a year and an international move later I find and take some time to finish, with a very few last post of our three and a half years long adventure in Hanoi and Vietnam.

Two weeks before leaving we packed up the house, had all our stuff shipped to Manila and moved into Sedona (a very easy sentence to write, but believe me, not an excersise you want to do every year, certainly not without having your partner around), the serviced apartment complex where we had spent so much time during the years it almost felt like home.

With everything we own neatly wrapped and packed, our "home" turned back into what it was before - and empty shell and just a house. I was surprised how little it bothered me to leave it.

Kids also came to say byebye...

... and make sure nothing important was left behind.

In Sedona we spent most of the time by the pool, and of course had all our friends come over. Hana and Rebecka.

 

Hosea, Kai, Hana and Tobias.

Kai even had his whole class over for their weekly swim class. A fairly unstructured but very fun one. Soc, Amber, Signe, Ms. Anette, Kai, Hoang, Hosea and, of course, in front Zack.