April 20th, 2010 
cbrodzky Since I created a list of the top 20 things I’ll miss from America before I left, I believe it’s only fair that I do the same for Vietnam. In no particular order, here are the top 20 things I’ll miss from Vietnam:
- My students
- Coffee
- New friends (both Vietnamese and American)
- Taking two hour naps everyday
- Paying less than $10 a day to live
- Skipping the chilly winter months in NYC
- Not being the whitest person in town
- Learning about a new culture
- Going to random weddings
- Incredible and delicious food
- Visiting incredible and unique pagodas
- Getting buzzed off of one beer
- $10/hour back massages
- Using chopsticks for every meal
- Banh Mi Op La (egg sandwich)
- Saying the only five things I know how to say in Vietnamese
- Teaching my students how to fist pump it like on Jersey Shore
- Working 15 hours a week
- Watching premiere episodes of Glee on Star World, which already appeared in America last year
- Getting confused looks when I tell people I’m Jewish
Just to list a few things I WILL NOT miss from Vietnam include the mosquitoes, risking my life on a motorbike, drinking beer with ice in a glass, and the awful Internet connection.
