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Date: December 6-7, 2006
Pictures: 116
Pictures from the chapter leaders meetings that took place before the alumni conference officially began.
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Date: December 7, 2006
Pictures: 30
Pictures from a private luncheon attended by board of governors, chapter leaders, and special guests.
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Date: December 7, 2006
Pictures: 52
Pictures from a reception held at the US Ambassador's residence in Hanoi for conference attendees.
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Date: December 8, 2006
Pictures: 156
Assorted pictures from the first day of the conference, including the opening ceremony, plenary discussion, panels, welcoming dinner, and of course plenty of pictures
of old friends reconnecting during breaks. Special award goes to the participants from the 60s for being the most willing models for pictures!
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Date: December 8, 2006
Pictures: 37
Pictures (only slightly censored) from the cultural presentation that followed the welcoming dinner. The presentation featured traditional Vietnamese performances from various parts of
the country, as well as a stunning fashion show that proved, as the closing speaker so elegantly remarked, that 'transparency' is becoming more important in Vietnam,
and apparently not just in business practices.
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Date: December 9, 2006
Pictures: 41
A handful of assorted pictures from the second day of the conference, mostly from panels and lunch. The largest event I shot this day was the APLP graduation
ceremony, which I put in a separate gallery.
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Date: December 9, 2006
Pictures: 84
Pictures from the graduation ceremony of the 6th generation of APLP students, hula and all.
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Date: December 9, 2006
Pictures: 58
Pictures from the reception for University of Hawaii alumni hosted by Hanoi University.
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Date: December 10, 2006
Pictures: 184
A bunch of pictures from the third and final day of the conference, primarily taken at the Aloha Dinner, awards presentation, and talent show.
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Date: December 6-11, 2006
Pictures:
Various pictures taken outside the formal events of the conference or outside the conference venue, mostly of conference staff and interns.
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Date: December 2-5
Pictures: 64
The weekend before the EWC alumni conference began, I took off for Cao Bang in northeastern Vietnam to see my dear friend Dr. Anh, a long-time resident of
the infamous 9th floor kitchen (Ewa, of course) at Hale Manoa who left the EWC last year. Dr. Anh had a young friend of his, Tuan Anh, who just happened to be returning to
Cao Bang from Hanoi the same day I was going there, so he and several of his friends are in many of the pictures. In two full days in Cao Bang, Dr. Anh drove me over
300km on the back of his motorcycle all around Cao Bang province to see the gorgeous Ban Gioc waterfall on the Chinese border, Hang Pac Bo cave where Ho Chi Minh hid
out in 1941 upon re-entry to Vietnam, and Nguom Ngao cave, which was spectacularly gorgeous but poorly maintained.
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Date: December 12-17
Pictures: 200
Ok, so actually I didn't go to Sapa with the APLP group. They followed me. Originally Carl Polley and I had planned to head up to Sapa, a popular mountain
tourist town in northwestern Vietnam, after the EWC conference concluded. Then we found out Thuy La, a fellow conference intern, is from the neighboring town of
Lao Cai and was planning to go home after the conference and invited us to accompany her. It wasn't until the APLP group arrived and I talked to Nick Barker that
I found out the entire APLP group would be going to Sapa at the same time. Then our EWC friend Azeema decided to join us for the trip, even though she had to go all
the way back to Hanoi the next night. Carl and I spent the first night with Thuy La's uncle and his girlfriend on the upper side of town, and even though we couldn't
communicate very well, we had a great time with them. Carl took off for Hanoi
the next day, leaving me alone with the forty or so rowdy APLP ruffians who had invaded this once peaceful
mountain town. Actually, I had a blast getting to know the APLP group, the fourth generation I've had the privilege to know, and ended up joining in on some
of their activities and taking pictures. And before getting back on the train to Hanoi in Lao Cai, I was the privileged guest for dinner at Thuy La's house, where
I was treated to a feast fit for a king.
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