Wednesday was St Patrick’s Day - and for some reason, I am more in touch with my Irish roots here in Ha Noi than I have ever been back in the Boston area. Go figure.
But as a member of the Gaelic Football team, I got a special invite to the St Paddy’s Day party put on by the Irish Embassy in Ha Noi. We were recognized in a separate ceremony before the party and met the Irish Ambassodor and the visiting Irish Minister for Science, Technology, Innovation and Natural Resources (now isn’t THAT a title). Then we moved into the main room for some Irish food, drink, song and dance. An elder Irish woman took me by the arm and started swinging me around and taught me to “three-step”. It was a ‘fecking grand time’.
The next day, not so much…
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