Home sweet home (as I left it :))
Church in Frankfurt, Germany
My room
My room (again)
My bath/shower
Notre Dame in HCMC
A fine example of electric wiring in Vietnam
The entrance of my street
House were my room is located (2nd left with open door)
Vietnamese New Year stuff
Statue of Dinh Bo Linh
Local Market
Some food on the local market
Lots and lots of coffee and thee on local market
Park in HCMC
Deutsche Bank just appears everywhere!
Sign of reunion of Vietnam after war
Another fine example of wiring in Vietnam!
Bureau of the project
Mijn stageplaats
Multimediaruimte
School where project is located
Quiet day in HCMC
Statue of Tran Hung Dao
Saigonriver
A Smart in HCMC (Oh yeah!)
A Smart in HCMC (2)
Statue of Ho Chi Minh
Countdown lights in HCMC (Get Ready... Set... Go!)
Countdown lights in HCMC (Get Ready... Set... Go!) (2)
Bus to Mekong Delta
Reststop during trip to Mekong Delta
Animal sighting at reststop
Our boat bringing us to the different islands in Mekong Delta
Bridge building in Mekong Delta
Bridge building in Mekong Delta (2)
Ferry (one of the many) between mainland and islands in Mekong Delta area
Arriving at Happy Island
Grave on Happy Island
In case you like snakes this is the place to be
Local art at Happy Island
Fruittree at Happy Island
Bananatree at Happy Island
Hand rowing boats (sampans) at Happy Island
Taken while in sampan under a bridge
A traffic jam of... sampans :)
Faster man, faster!
Nevermind, safety first...
A peddler
Cruising in the land of the coconut
Fruittree located at the land of the coconut (so why no coconut?)
Coconuts!
How to make coconut candy? (Part 1)
How to make coconut candy? (Part 2)
How to make coconut candy? (Part 4) - Squashing coconut for milk and oil
Homebrew... :)
Almost done! Now cutting into small pieces
Putting a rice paper around the cut coconut pieces
A local garden
Back on the boat
Here we had lunch
Geoffrey, a Canadian, I met at the Vietnamese course
Co-worker/old friend of Geoffrey
Jef, my co-worker/supervisor
Mrs. Huyền
Mr. Trung (colleague) and Jef
Mr. Trung
Left: Trung, Right: Phượng
Trung
Left: Phượng, Right: me
A beautiful sight: no motobikes, no cars... So quiet :) (4AM)
Nightview of HCMC
Mrs. Yến
Mr. Minh
Mrs. Phượng
Almost all participants in Tay Ninh
Almost ready to start introduction!
Principle of school in Tay Ninh, Mr. Đạo, speeching
Trung and Jef speeching
Left: Trung (our ICT-guy/interpreter/...); Right: Jef
Schedule of the day
Mrs. Phượng is giving a short introduction about her workshop
Mrs. Yến giving a short introduction about her workshop
Mr. Dụng giving a short introduction about his workshop
Mr. Trung giving a short introduction about his workshop
Participants choosing the workshops they want to follow!
“What to choose?” -Anonymous participant
Mr. Dụng explaining his participants what they will do in the one hour they have
Mr. Minh and his participants
Mrs. Yến and her participants
Working with Crocodile Physics
Photo Story class
Mrs. Huyền explaining how to use Photo Story
MindMap of Mrs. Phượng
Mrs. Phượng explaining how to use MindMap
Participants of the MindMap workshop
Using PhotoStory to create ATL
Jef helping participants with PhotoStory
Yes, PhotoStory supports a voice track
One of the assignment: make pictures of each other and make a photostory of it
Picture of two people taking pictures
I can see you...
“Smile!” - Participant
Jef is THE expert of PhotoStory
Teacher school in Tay Ninh
Vietnamese lunch, nice but not enough for Western people!
Lunch and beer (with a lot of water from the melting ice)
Cao Dai's Holy See
Terrain where Cao Đài is located
Practicers of the Cao Đài religion
Praying people
Cao Đài
A painting of the Three Saints
Cao Đài ceremony at it's end
Mr. Trung and his participants
All very interested but they still have a long way to go!
Everybody gathering for the last speech
Almost everybody is still here!
Mr. Jef speeching...
... and Mrs. Phượng translating
Jef making his final speech
Yes it's almost over... We know it was a long day :)
People telling about what they learned today!
Some gifts from VVOB for the school
“En we gaan nog niet naar huis, nog lange niet nog lange niet...” - Dutch song
I know my English is far from perfect but these people should consider using a dictionary before printing signs!
HTV: Governmental controlled broadcaster <> Coca-Cola
“Does this camera work?” - Trung; “Apparently, yes...” - Jan (Mrs. Phượng on photo)
Mr. Trung training taekwondo together with his children
Training session taekwondo in Vietnam
Oldest daughter of Mr. Trung, Thiên Bảo
Both daughters of Mr. Trung practicing taekwondo (left: Thái Bảo; right: Thiên Bảo)
Practice practice!
“Are those children? Ruuuunnnn!”
Mr. Trung practicing along with his daughters
Thái Bảo is proud of herself
Thái Bảo with Linh (friend)
Other kids training
Mr. Trung training together with his children
Front right: Thái Bảo; Back left: trainer Liêm
Thái Bảo getting up for school
“I can fly...” (People working on the perfect maintained electrical network in HCMC)
This guy must feel very safe!
From the Netherlands? Not really, this is made in Vietnam
Teacher training college in Dong Nai
Preparing for introduction project to teachers
Principle of college
Ready to begin introduction
Jef speeching, Trung translating
Trung translating, Jef waiting :)
Mrs. Phượng introducing her project
Mrs. Yến introducing her workshop
Mr. Dụng introducing his workshop
Mrs. Huyền introducing her workshop
Mr. Trung introducing his workshop
Mr. Trung and his workshop about webquests
Mr. Dụng and his workshop about Hot Patatoes and Excel
Mrs. Phượng and her workshop about mindmaps
This must be our youngest student ever...
Mrs. Yến and her workshop about simulation
Mrs. Huyền's workshop about photostory
Lunch with the team
Lunch with the team (From left: Yến, Huyền, Dụng)
Lunch with the team (teachers of the college on photo)
Lunch with the team (Phượng on the photo)
Lunch with the team (myself on the photo)
Closing session of workshop
Lots and lots of ants attracted by… Jef’s papers?
Participants of my workshop (day 1)
Trung and myself trying to explain what to do before the actual creation of a website
“Yes?” - Me
Actually more talking to Trung then to my participants... Sorry :)
“Whooo, baby foto's!” - Female participant
“Miss. W and her smartboard”, popular example of CC learning environment
Me walking around trying to assist people where possible
All cosy together behind one pc
Participants of my workshop
My translator needs to understand everything I want to do so here I'm explaining something to him first
Left: Me; Right: Trung
Participants exploring Ning
A very concentrated participant :)
Participants filling in the matrix
Yeah, the matrix!
Everybody is helping to get the matrix filled in correctly
Is it ++ or +? What a dilemma :)
Waiting patiently while participants are filling in the matrix
After the matrix they had to analyse 5 cases
It are only five short stories, but short doesn't mean easy...
Comparing matrix with stories
Trung helping participants with the cases
Day 2: after short introduction we will start with installing apachefriends
Since a lot of participants barely speak English I need Trung for translation (which he does great!)
Some clicking here, type that here, et voilà! It works :)
More then 30 participants today...
Some people didn't know how to unzip, this slowed down the workshop reasonably (but no worries of course)
They needed to unzip some files and do that in the correct folder. One hell of an assignment for some people :)
Some participants were way to unsure about themselves and needed some encouragement!
Two very active participants
Volkswagen Beetle's in HCMC
Volkswagen Beetle's in HCMC (with horrible logo: spiderman on a beetle? *cry*)
Saigon Zoo: Feeding elephants
Saigon Zoo: Jef feeding (together with Jill) the elephants
Saigon Zoo: sad looking elephant!
Saigon Zoo (sign said “Wild Horse”, sure...)
Saigon Zoo: An ostrich looking very miserable
Saigon Zoo: bears
Saigon Zoo: monkeys (can you find them?)
Saigon Zoo: monkeys (can you find them)
Saigon Zoo: otters eating fish
Exploring a school on Cao Đài territory with Jef's family
Students in this school suddenly have a new teacher... :)
Joining the local students for a talk (looks almost real ;-))
Cao Đài temple (outside)
The all seeing eye of the Cao Đài
Inside of the Cao Đài temple
Outside the Cao Đài temple
Music inside the Cao Đài temple
Young believer of the Cao Đài
Lots of tourists watching the Cao Đài ceremony
“The three saints”
Jef crawling into the Củ Chi tunnels
Củ Chi tunnels
Guide explaining the tunneling system (Củ Chi tunnels)
Woman uniform of the NLF guerrillas. Every team had at least one woman (Củ Chi tunnels)
Old destroyed tank of the US-force
Guide explaining the self designed traps used by the guerillas (Củ Chi tunnels)
NLF Guerilla using unexploded US-bombs and reusing them (Củ Chi tunnels)
Family of Jef posing (Củ Chi tunnels)
Show on national Vietnamese television about Linux
My rented Vespa (and one of the kids from the house where I rent a room)
“I'm a millionaire!”, at least in Vietnam ;-) (This is not more than 60 euro)
Reunification Palace, HCMC
Banquet room, Reunification Palace, HCMC
Cabinet meeting room, Reunification Palace, HCMC
Conference hall, Reunification Palace, HCMC
President's National reception room, Reunification Palace, HCMC
President's international room, Reunification Palace, HCM
President's International room, Reunification Palace, HCMC
Vice-President's reception room, Reunification Palace, HCMC
Fountain in front of the reunification palace, HCMC
Legal presenting room, Reunification Palace, HCMC
Foundation stone of the new building, Reunification Palace, HCMC
Hunting collection of the president, Reunification Palace, HCMC
Library, Reunification Palace, HCMC
First Lady's banquet room, Reunification Palace, HCMC
Theatre room, Reunification Palace, HCMC
Amusement room, Reunification Palace, HCMC
View from top floor, Reunification Palace, HCMC
Helicopter @ Reunification Palace, HCMC
Commanding room in basement, Reunification Palace, HCMC
Somebody is missing a few phones I guess... [Reunification palace, HCMC]
Old equipment completely neglected [Reunification palace, HCMC]
More old equipment [Reunification palace, HCMC]
Telex room [Reunification palace, HCMC]
President's bedroom in the basement [Reunification palace, HCMC]
Replica of the presidents car [Reunification palace, HCMC]
Picture shows child in South-Vietnamese camps [Reunification palace, HCMC]
Replica of the first tanks attacking the palace [Reunification palace, HCMC]
Chinese Market, HCMC
Lots of food for sale [Chinese market, HCMC]
For those we become hungry/thirsty during shopping [Chinese market, HCMC]
Victims of agent orange [War Remnants Museum, HCMC]
More victims... [War Remnants Museum, HCMC]
War Remnants Museum, HCMC
After effects of agent orange [War Remnants Museum, HCMC]
Weapons used by the Americans in Vietnam war (note: museum never shows any Vietnamese with weapons) [War Remnants Museum, HCMC]
More American weapons [War Remnants Museum, HCMC]
Translated part of the Declaration of Indepence (telling that all men are created equally) [War Remnants Museum, HCMC]
Replica of tiger cases where the South Vietnamese government housed political prisoners [War Remnants Museum, HCMC]
Guillotine [War Remnants Museum, HCMC]
List of the American mobilized in the war [War Remnants Museum, HCMC]
My balanced refrigerator :-) (Top: water and lots of fruit; Middle: milk and cookies; Bottom: cerials, Orangina and Dutch Ladies)
My favorite drink in Vietnam: coffee with condensed milk and ice! (cà phê sữa đá)
Me and my (rented) Vespa
Trung, Phượng and I leaving for lunch (Phuong took picture)
View from Phượng's appartment
Phượng cooking (and yes, she is an excellent cook)
Food Phuong prepared
Delicious food that Phượng prepared for us
Visiting school in Tay Ninh province for open-school day!
“What is your age?”, “Are you married?” and “Where are you from?” are the default questions
Ever wondered what a mess people leave behind after lunch? Wonder no more...
Left: principle of visited school, middle: our driver
Vietnamese house in province
Vietnamese roads
Hidden Vietnamese house (gotta love the style)
Vietnamese traffic (very safe ;-))
Booths selling various goods (you can find them everywhere in the city)
Local mechanic shop
Oldest daughter of Jef
Bakery called Pat'a Chou
Rainy day in HCMC
”Slums“ in HCMC
“Slums” in HCMC
Jef and his daughter at the pool
Me at the pool (with sun glasses)
Left: Me, Right: Jill (at the pool)
Left: Jill, Right: Me (at the pool)
Animals for sale on the street
French restaurant “Le Jardin” in HCMC
Fosco (schoolyard)
Fosco (I call it the bouncing room :))
Fosco (computer room)
Fosco (Who's in grade 5?)
Fosco Olympics
Fosco (building where they are located)
Fosco (front)
Train station in HCMC (railway)
Train station in HCMC (waiting room)
Train station in HCMC (old train outside the station)
Train station in HCMC (old tracks = perfect parking space)
Train station in HCMC (entrance doesn't look very trainy... :))
Students waiting for some famous singer [Vo Tho Sau - HCMC]
Flag of Vietnam [Vo Tho Sau - HCMC]
Schoolyard [Vo Tho Sau - HCMC]
As everywhere in Vietnam: lots of Bikes [Vo Tho Sau - HCMC]
Computer room [Vo Tho Sau - HCMC]
The computers are hidden in the desks [Vo Tho Sau - HCMC]
Projector in computer room [Vo Tho Sau - HCMC]
Oh there it is... (hidden computers!) [Vo Tho Sau - HCMC]
Other computer room, this time the pc's are visible :) [Vo Tho Sau - HCMC]
Fancy projector [Vo Tho Sau - HCMC]
Students happy that school is finished [Vo Tho Sau - HCMC]
English course [Vo Tho Sau - HCMC]
Equipment for English course [Vo Tho Sau - HCMC]
Room for English course [Vo Tho Sau - HCMC]
Students leaving for lunch [Vo Tho Sau - HCMC]
Dust masks in HCMC
You can find bread on every corner of the street in HCMC
Computer room [Chu Van An - Tay Ninh]
Stencil machine [Chu Van An - Tay Ninh]
Teacher room [Chu Van An - Tay Ninh]
The Vietnamese school “bell” [Chu Van An - Tay Ninh]
Me and a teacher I'm interviewing (interpreter took picture) [Chu Van An - Tay Ninh]
Students doing their exam [Chu Van An - Tay Ninh]
Student stressing out :) [Chu Van An - Tay Ninh]
Students working on their exam [Chu Van An - Tay Ninh]
Flag of Vietnam [Chu Van An - Tay Ninh]
New school building in progress [Chu Van An - Tay Ninh]
Messy schoolyard at the moment [Chu Van An - Tay Ninh]
Groundplan [Chu Van An - Tay Ninh]
Students leaving [Chu Van An - Tay Ninh]
Railway in HCMC
Sésame [Bakery in HCMC]
Farewell party organised by the college
Public transportation in HCMC
Phở Gà (Vietnamese noodlesoup with chicken)
My co-worker's (Trung) family
Back in Belgium
