I was reading your ‘about’ section and I see we have a few things in common, not least that you are moving away from clinical practice in education - so am I. I hurt my back a couple of years ago looking after a woman in labour, so am not too keen to repeat the experience. How are you feeling about doing less clinical?

I really appreciate you leaving a comment on my blog because it brought me over here, to your blog, which I may not have discovered otherwise. Such interesting stuff!

Oh, and FWIW, “Ti nau” is rarely used in spoken Vietnamese (at least in the north; not sure about the south as I’ve never lived there). It’s much more common just to say “Xin Chao!” (polite, formal, what most foreigners say) or “Chao _____” filling in the blank with whichever appropriate pronoun applies — there are about 8 different pronouns dependent on gender and age of who you’re speaking to. To you, I will say “Chao chi!” because you are older than me and a female.

And I’ll also say, again, Cam on, chi! (Thank you!)

On blogger blogs whenever possible I use the option to add name and URL so it links to my blog. If that is not possible I sign under my comment my name and URL. I’m still annoyed with blogger because I would prefer it to always link to a persons blog rather than their profile. Makes for too many clicks to find a persons blog. I also need to edit my blogger profile so if I do use it then it will show where my blogs are located.