We’re off to Vietnam! 10 students and two faculty from FPU (Ken and Fran Martens Friesen, along with their teenage daughter) are off to experience a world very different than their own – full of the mystery of Asia along with the reminders of a world of U.S. foreign policy that some might want to forget. For some, Vietnam is simply a war; one purpose of this trip is to reveal that Vietnam is a country and a people – very proud of their history and struggling to deal with what it means to be developing in a rapidly changing world.  We hope you enjoy reading as we all write about what we see, smell, hear, taste, and feel.