“2020 was not an easy year,” Léna Lalila, 34, a Frenchwoman living in HCMC, says.She came to Vietnam in 2014 as an international volunteer. She then did various jobs before teaching French and English in state schools.She lost her job as a teacher when Covid-19 broke out and schools closed, moved in with her boyfriend and cut expenses as much as she could. She found a lot of teaching jobs on Facebook and earned enough to “survive.”When the pandemic faded, she found a job in an international preschool.Seeing what is going on elsewhere in the world, she says people in Vietnam are fortunate to be safe from Covid-19. Her sister lives in Canada and has been locked in her house for a year, unable to go out.Having more time for herself during the social distancing, she did more yoga and meditation and some cycling.”I felt healthier and I had a more balanced life in 2020.”Many foreigners in Vietnam also saw 2020 as a year of big spiritual values, with nothing much achieved materialistically.Adam Christopher Marshall, 45, from Oxfordshire, England, returned to Vietnam in early February 2020 when the first infections were appearing. Soon enough he began to face financial difficulties… Read full this story
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