"Why Vietnam is my home"

30 years old, come from the United States, claiming to have good-amusing, Philip Veinott is the author of the article about the "great stories about life and beautiful images of Vietnam" in the words he said.


Philip Veinott the bridge in the city - Photos provided character

There are more than 4,800 followers on Facebook, the English teacher Veinott Philip spends a few hours each week to write about the country that he loved to call home, after six years of living here.

Tet is the reason why I love Vietnam. Lunar New Year to come here, I see people playing cards together, drink together and sing karaoke, I feel the connection between friends and family. Very different feeling. In America, people want to have their own space, not like here

Philip Veinott

"Vietnam in my soul"

Phil was in charge of communications for the website Is Awesome Vietnam (Vietnam wonderful) that he and a friend build, providing travel experiences for foreigners in Vietnam.

Not hard to see the articles posted on Facebook's Vietnam Is Awesome and Phil imbued his love for Vietnam. V

ới witty tone that he said is "written as say," Phil writes about everything from how great Vietnam, to experience tourism, culinary experience, or a Vietnam story as life " befriend noodles "of the students, on the labor that Phil told her often received little attention despite their admirable, both in Vietnam stories tall, the disadvantages too like.

Phil often afraid when someone praises you write or, because he told me to write not good, simply write down what I saw, I think, my experience ...

Post his most famous is the story of the time he had an accident, a broken arm and a Vietnamese family enthusiastic help, taken to the hospital and also paid the fees for him.

Posts are shared across many forums of foreigners in Vietnam and received more than 50,000 Likes.

One of the articles that are most favorite Phil "Why Vietnam is my home" (Why Vietnam is my home). Phil said that this article give him a chance to sit back and ponder why he considered Vietnam is home.

"In Vietnam I fiancée, dog Boo, with friends, with more students. I'm very close with my students "- Phil fresh breeze and smiled.

With his favorite teacher from New Jersey wrote, the excellence of Vietnam come from very small things in life, like running the motor on the road makes you see the freedom and liberation, or the fiancée went to eat snails and Vietnam see how people enjoy life side street food ...

Speak even once with Phil could see his affection for Vietnam is very natural. Phil himself also unexplained, just know that he saw "love is love that's all." "I have the same feeling now his Vietnamese people than Americans, if the next life, I want to make people of Vietnam" - Phil confided Buddhist style.

Now Phil is desired can be connected to many others to write, so he is not only the only one promoting Vietnam, Vietnam great compliment.

"Many people still do not talk about the good things happening in Vietnam, they do not think a great Vietnam. I lived here for six years now, this is my home. If you really live here, to have a family here, you will find this a great place "- Phil assured.

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Phil tells still remember the first time to Vietnam in 2008 to visit his former boss - a Vietnamese immigrant, in Ben Luc (Long An). Previously, he has repeatedly refused the invitation because knew nothing about Vietnam and had no intention of coming here.

However, to come to Vietnam, he was "Mesmerized" by a profoundly different life than his country.

"At that time Ben Luc no air conditioning, no Internet, they must suffer mosquito bed, using the toilet right outside the house, the whole channel television Vietnam, people are staring me in the zoo" - Phil laughed at the memory.

"But then people started talking, talking friendly smile, I suddenly felt a cohesion that I have never ever known. I told that they would only go back "- Phil said.

Talking is doing, exactly one year later, also on the occasion of Tet, Phil was off to Ho Chi Minh City with the intention to live permanently. Then in 2012, he suddenly bored Vietnam and returned to the United States because "after 3-4 years, you will be bored anywhere".

But after returning home, he kept at home and his mother to ask why he did not go to work. Supposedly very revealing Phil ... Phil: he was missing with a stable job in the US and will not return to Vietnam ... again! Thus, after three months, the American boy back pack Vietnam.

In addition to teach, write blogs, and 2014 also founder Phil SlapDish, a service that offers free dining voucher of restaurants and hotels. Enterprises providing voucher, Phil "Ad" on SlapDish, people just comment and share to win the opportunity to obtain this voucher. By now, SlapDish still works as a free bridge link people together.

"The biggest thing that gives me SlapDish is the link, help me be more people in this country and I would like to link people together" - Phil shared.

Phil said there are still plenty of things to do in Vietnam, apart from work, his wife to wear a half-Vietnamese who also is a factor that makes him more linked to this country.

"Get her to wife made Vietnam become a part of me, forever, in a natural way" - Phil said, eyes twinkling.

Though now he was unsure that I have ever stay in Vietnam or not, "but I want to retire here. I was only 30 hours, imagine 50 years to see, then I'm the person Vietnam then, but I also see themselves as Vietnam now. "

Vietnam is home

And also the last two weeks (first visit to Vietnam of Phil), time to go home already. My emotions are really confused now. I was a bit homesick as this is my first time away from home so long, but I aroused feelings in Vietnam as his home. Hit like love at first sight, I loved died. Here, unlike the US. I want to live the "American Dream" in Vietnam. It's hard to explain this unless you leave your house, it's a new place. Sometimes the "home" is where you want to be there and that is why Vietnam is my home. (Excerpt from "Why Vietnam is my home")