We again—for reasons I cannot quite ascertain—agree to arise early on Sunday in order to meet up with the rest of the group to go grab coffee at Café Giảng, a world famous egg coffee shop, and proceed from there to walk around Hanoi. We agree to meet in the…

Saturday night we all meet to go explore the night market. This turns out rather amusing for me overall, caught between the two worlds of keeping up with Matthias and keeping tabs on my coworkers, and the struggle not to abandon them all just to take pictures to document everything….