February 2017 was nesting in Banker’s Hill, friends napping on the couch and cruel and unusual punishment in the classroom 🏡 📚 The February project started in 2010 as sort of a belated New Year's resolution

February 2018 was late-afternoon in Little Italy, pup naps with Lucy and making strangers smile ☕️ 🐕 The February project started in 2010 as sort of a belated New Year's resolution to get more comfortable

February 2019 was hot sauce and roses, library love notes and a glimpse of this handsome man at the altar for the first time 🌶 ❤️ The February project started in 2010 as sort of a belated New Year's

February 2012 was Santiago subways, Concha y Toro by the bottle and extremely tolerant roommates. The February project started in 2010 as sort of a belated New Year's resolution to get more comfortable

Hello there, fellow VLLs! Some of you might have already seen my YouTube videos posted here. I'm using my channel as a way to track my progress and build a community with other Vietnamese learners as well

February 2013 was coming home to Iquique for what ended up being my last month in Chile. It was a month of long walks on the beach, making new friends and scraping together pesos for surf wax and pan

February 2014 was the long-awaited opening of the La Luna Llena, a quick visa hop to Ecuador and a whole lot of trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. 🌙🦎 The February project started

February 2010 was Chico squirrels, narrowly avoiding bike theft and escaping to San Francisco for shows on the weekends. The February project started in 2010 as sort of a belated New Year's resolution

The February project started in 2010 as sort of a belated New Year's resolution to get more comfortable using my new DSLR. I decided to lug it around with me wherever I went for a month. With it, I began

As our 90-day visa allowance dwindled down to its final days, we brainstormed the best approach to meeting our obligatory travel requirement. The most straight-forward option is a direct bus to Laos and

In episode #5 of Alicia Learns Vietnamese, Alicia talks about the kooks' recent trip to Huế, all of the delicious food they ate there and how speaking even a basic level of Vietnamese made the trip so

In this episode of Alicia Learns Vietnamese, Alicia responds to some viewer comments and shares the helpful insight of her native Vietnamese speaking viewers with fellow VLL's.

Hello again, Steemers! In episode #2, I told you all about the things that make Vietnamese easy. This week, let's talk about the struggles...

Hey there, Steemers! I finally got everything in order and Episode #2 is officially up! We tried out Lazada (think Vietnamese Amazon) for the first time and got ourselves a legit mic to combat this windy

Hey guys! This is Alicia coming to you from Đà Nẵng, Vietnam! I created this series of videos to chronicle my growth as I study Vietnamese. My husband and I (the other kook in twokooksonevan) have been

We slide into our regular booth at the coffee shop on our neighbor’s front porch and she completes my sentence mid-order, “two milk coffee,” she says, chuckling at our predictability. We smile through

Whenever a travel destination gets touted as “cheap”, the inevitable question gets asked: ok, but really… how cheap is “cheap”? Fret not, the Kooks are here to help you budget for your Vietnam trip by

The Kooks first crossed paths with their beloved van in October, 2018. They had long been in search of a vehicle that met their kooking needs. When this stunning 1990 Econoline 150 rolled into their lives,

These kooks first met in a meeting about standardized testing. Romantic, right? Both EL Coordinators for different schools in the same charter, Alicia and Arturo were asked to work together on a presentation