The start of a great tinventure

Dear Internet,

I would like to take a little trip down memory lane, back to December 28, 2014, when I made this very bold statement:

As I promised many of you, I am starting a blog about my time in Vietnam. I also promise that I will try my VERY best to update this one more than I did when I was living in Paris :)

I think I updated this blog exactly two times after that post because I am responsible and have my life together.

Since that time, I have traveled through Vietnam and to Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, India and Sri Lanka. I have run trail races and road races. I have learned how to ride a motorbike.  I have performed in three plays. I have taught students I cherish and students who drive me crazy (and students I cherish who drive me crazy). I have finished an M.Ed. I have learned a little Vietnamese and read a lot of books. And, looking back over the last 18 months, I really wish I’d been writing about all of this as it was happening.

(clockwise from top left: Dad and me in Saigon; Jess, Liam and me in Inle Lake (Myanmar); Kate and me practicing yoga in Kerala (India); me hiking in Cat Tien National Park (Vietnam); Allison, Jess, Perry and me at Mirissa Beach (Sri Lanka); Dad, Katie and me in Thailand)

(photos from Lysistrata, Rocky Horror Picture Show and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged)

I am inspired to rectify this sad state of affairs. Also, when I was home this summer Carrie demanded that I start writing my blog again. And, for those of you who haven’t been paying attention, DAVID TINNON MOVED TO VIETNAM!

So, I have rechristened this blog “Tinventures,” because, you know, we are Tinnons having adventures, and I hope to write about the fun and crazy things David and I do here in Vietnam, both together and apart. David even said he’d blog with me as long as I set it up for him. So, David, here is me setting it up. Let the Tinventures begin!

XO E