Last day in Hanoi

Today we fly down to Danang and then take short drive to Hoi An on the mid-coast. The past two days I've been very sick with some kind of food poisoning so I've been doing alot of sleeping and not much else.Yesterday we met Helene Jordans, the environment officer at the Danish embassy. She was very concerned that we have Vietnamese partners with us every step of the way so that when Danida (the Danish office funding this project) goes away there is enough institutional knowledge for the VN to carry on. We tried to assure her that while we didn't have many partners here in Hanoi we would everywhere we went in the field. The day before we had lunch with Nathan Sage, the environment officer for the US embassy. He grew up in Connecticut and went to URI. A very interesting person with many international experiences.