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“How often do they get adopted,” Bri asked the head monk a little later on. Thich Nu spoke for about two minutes before Michelle translated. “The babies sometimes get adopted, but the older ones stay by choice,” she said. “What, if they’re over 15, they can choose to go or stay?” I asked. “No,Continue reading

Gotcha! Boys shoot friends cleaning up after lunch.

But that all changed when one asked for—pointing to—the camera, then all bets were off. After showing them how to zoom and hold down the silver button to get a better (closer) shot of this girl (friend) washing dishes, they were more than willing to pose, shoot and share. Long and Duoc “My name isContinue reading

“Shy, me shy?” funny faces with Duoc, 20, lower right (white shirt).

“I’ve been here for four years,” Long said. “My hometown, A Luoi (ah Lou a) is 60 kilometers west of Hue.” Though, an only child, there was no one to look after him, able to give him what he needed most. “Life is hard in my hometown,” he said. “I came here four years agoContinue reading

Unlike Long, Duoc has six brothers and sisters, three of them in the orphanage and three still living in A Luoi. He even playfully coerced one of his sisters to talk with me, but she ran off. “I’m studying Agricultural Engineering,” Duoc said, after some time meandering through my dictionary. “We product and make farmContinue reading

July 18 Long, me and Duoc, with not-so-shy friends at Chua Duc Son.

Spicy Eats Just like the weather, the food of Hue is hot hot hot. Their meals are full of seafood, from this soup above, with shrimp, watercrest, and shredded banana seeds or my favorite, Banh Canh Cua Roi, or thick noodles with crabmeat, ground meats, cilantro, shallots, onions, yucca, chilies, veggies and other spices, which one ofContinue reading