{"id":9556,"date":"2014-05-06T08:08:04","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T15:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carpediemeducation.org\/blog\/?p=9556"},"modified":"2014-07-28T09:44:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T16:44:32","slug":"good-night-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carpediemeducation.org\/good-night-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Night, Vietnam!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big virtual hugs to all friends and family of Seasia 2014!! After a three hour magical ceremony last night full of blindfold whisperings of appreciation, candle light and insane amounts of love, the group spent the morning perfecting and recording our very own original song about the trip (lyrics below):<\/p>\n<p><iframe  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_44291\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\"  data-relstop=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xvy2yNMSB9s?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=3&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Today we celebrated the amazing Miss B&#8217;s birthday and sent the students off into the cool Vietnam eve. Everyone is safe and well on their journey and we MISS THEM ALREADY!!!!!! We will post more goodies in the next couple days (hint hint: guided semester reflections), but for now, we hope all the students are well in to their 4th movie on the plane, have long devoured their pack of oreos, and are soon peacefully sleeping as they cross the bizarre time portal across the date line into the past (but Brook gets TWO birthdays, how cool?!)<\/p>\n<p>Peace and Love!!!<br \/>\nJulia and Topher<\/p>\n<p>Towards Another Home<br \/>\nBy Seasia Students Spring 2014<br \/>\n(last verse borrowed from Lord Huron)<\/p>\n<p>Orange blazing lanterns<br \/>\nreleased from our hands<br \/>\nWinged light fades into the night<\/p>\n<p>Saffron robes, folded palms<br \/>\nBarefoot dawn rounds of alms<br \/>\nBlessings bound wrists warm goodbyes<\/p>\n<p>Fragile bodies, laughing eyes children born asking why<br \/>\nrising hope from the depths of the dark<\/p>\n<p>Ancient stone cities lost<br \/>\ncrawlin roots, hungry moss<br \/>\nwooden homes over stilts under stars<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<br \/>\nLifting up our packs<br \/>\nTogether on our own<br \/>\nLeaving heavy footprints on this memory paved Road<\/p>\n<p>Green Rivers, blue mountains, rusty trucks and wooden boats<br \/>\nOnce again we find ourselves<br \/>\nOnce again we find ourselves<\/p>\n<p>Moving towards another home<br \/>\nBa da ba, ba da ba&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Green fields growing rice<br \/>\nRiver Highways hold life<br \/>\nPeaceful paths in haunted hills<\/p>\n<p>Bright silver dark skin<br \/>\nwrinkled black toothy grins<br \/>\nWet labyrinth streets overfill<\/p>\n<p>Who knows where will go<br \/>\nwhat new bonds we will grow<br \/>\nhow many goodbyes we will say<\/p>\n<p>but what good is living<br \/>\nthe life you&#8217;ve been given<br \/>\nIf all you do is stay in one place<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS x 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big virtual hugs to all friends and family of Seasia 2014!! 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