Work on the Junk

I'm sorry that it has been quiet here as of late. My ISP proposal is due in 10 days, and crazier than that is the fact that the project starts in 10 days. So we're trying to work overtime here, but it is difficult to type on a netbook when all of Ha Long bay is floating alongside me in a dreamy fog...

In other news, I will be working with this NGO: http://mcdvietnam.org/
They are helping me to arrange homestays, contacts, permission letters and translation, and I will be helping them to jumpstart their projects with shrimp farmers (they already work with lobster farmers).

I still don't have a working camera, but my friends have some great photos that I promise will get up here at some point. They don't upload them as often as I uploaded mine, so it may be a few days more. In the place of more recent photos, I offer some cool ones gleaned from their Picasa accounts: