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FMP Poster

Had some help Finishing my FMP poster and overall I'm really happy with how it turned out. This version you see here is not the one that'll be in the showcase, this is one is a slight improvement I made after it was submitted the main improvement being the fox itself.

My main alterations to the fox was combining both a drawing and photo to achieve this interesting result and In my opinion making it look better! It also makes it blend better with the background but also still standing out in a way.

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Finished Outcomes

Here are my three finished pages of my comic for my FMP I'm very pleased I have managed to get these done.

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Ho Chi Minh City

Ah Ho Chi Minh the last city we visited before our eventual return to the UK it was nice place to be in aside from a few minor bad things. We were there for a couple days and it was nice. The place had an interesting post office, couple of nice places to eat including a macaroon shop and a decent market to buy from.

Our Hotel wasn't the best one we'd been to it reminded me and a few other people of the Overlook Hotel from the Shinning but it did have it's benefits like unfinished floors that we had fun going through at night, unfinished roof with an exposed tank, a decent pool and hot tub that apparently went green at some point.

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Can Tho

My experience at Can Tho was a good one I liked the feel of the city plenty of life, character and things to do in Can Tho.

The Hotel was quite good as well we had good rooms, breakfast bar and pool and even an ok balcony.

Some of the islands we visited were quite interesting we learned how to make this blue sweet candy cake add a certain sauce or serum to it made it even better. Also some of the Markets were interesting like the one in the river with people on boats approaching you on your boat and coming to see if you want to buy something.

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Hoi An

Ah I miss Hoi An it was a place I wish we stayed longer in but lucky it wasn't one night the hotel, the beach, the shops near perfect in my opinion the first restraint we visited there had a very nice atmosphere I liked it.

The Hotel was ... near perfect

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Da Nang

Da Nang was an interesting place to visit it reminded me of Hogwarts and the thing that made it stand out more to me was were it was located, the place was in the middle of these big tall mountains and connected by cable karts.

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Hue

Hue was city that were sadly not there for long (it was only 1 night) which was unfortunate and was one were I didn't have enough energy to go out sadly. But from what I could see from the way on the bus and my room window it did look great.

The place we went for dinner the one night we were there had a very nice atmosphere to it and probably one of my favorites.

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Ha Long Bay

Ha Long Bay was such a nice place to be in for the brief time we were there for the boat journey there and back was so relaxing and peaceful the food on the boat was nice.

The cave that we explored when got off the boat was very nice and reminded me of Lord of the Rings and Indiana Jones also when we existed the caves there was a nice view of other boats coming in along with a gift shop nearby.

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Hanoi

Hanoi was a very nice place to start in for the trip and had some very nice spots and places to see. One of my favorite highlights being the train street. It had such a nice atmosphere during the day and night and seeing that train go through the street was cool. It was something I remember seeing online years ago but seeing it in person was really cool.

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Reflecting on Vietnam

Writing this a month after coming back it's crazy it's already been a month already the experience of getting to abroad to a different country exploring different locations and not being stuck in just one was amazing!

The people I met on this and spent 2 weeks with were amazing I will miss us being a hole group but everyone I've met through it are great amazing people.

The culture of Vietnam is very interesting to me how everything works in terms of traffic, businesses and money is different to the UK like for example 1000 dong (Vietnam currency) is 31p in the UK.

I'll add more

(me telling you my journey 60 years later)

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Trip (The Last Time)

Last Day …

Oh my the last day was amazing but sad it started with me having a well deserved lay in after some slight bother at the door earlier with Mr. Oliver going missing (not really he just got dragged out) I then decided to get up and head out and try find some people that might be nearby on my travels this civilian came up to me and started cleaning my shoes and I was like " FFS I'm going have to pay him" in my head I should've just kept walking or told him to go away or something but after that slight unfortunate event I did manage to find Ella, Harvey, Anna, Thomas and Eva in which they were heading for some lunch in which I went "perfect I'm hungry" we went to this fast food type place called Jollibee which was quite decent.

Then for a while we just did some shopping and I did some more things for some people back home. (which they did like)

The Last time we would all have dinner together was a bit sad knowing We'd never be this big group again sure some of us might hang out together you never know. The food we were served was great all the best foods spring roles, chips, rice, meat/noodles stew and a really nice coconut cake for desert.

Then shortly after we gave Mr. Bao a thank you gift for his amazing work and then everyone started signing t-shirts that they got at the start and also books, I got my book signed since I think it's more cooler and more special.

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Trip (Day 14:Veterans day)

The day started off well we left the hotel ready to head to the place I've been very interested to go to since I heard about it.

We eventually arrived at Phu Hoa Dong I was sweating like a light bulb, after getting our tickets we went in and already I was invested the area already had me intrigued the first thing we did was check out was a picture or a showcase of how deep the tunnels where and how they were used.

We then had a chance to go in one of the holes people would hide in the war and it was cool then shortly after we were shown some of the traps people would use to well you know trap and kill the enemy. Then we had a chance to go through one of the tunnels for a few minutes and it was an interesting experience overall I should've left my bag with someone because it was a bit of a tight fit but I made it through we did have an option to go a bit further which I sadly didn't do and also slightly gutted I didn't have my new torch my parents had got for me.

Then probably one of the biggest moments happened which I probably will talk about a lot about for ages I got to shoot a GUN. We went to the gun range and we had an option if we wanted to fire a gun at the range which in my mind was an instant yes. We had a few options of guns to choose from like an Ak47, PPK, LMG but the one I went with was the M16 rifle. Honestly I was a bit shaky after I shot the gun but it was still cool. (I was too shaky I had a Cornetto)

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Trip (Day 13: the best temple)

eye in the wall also I need to do more of my book!!!

We went to our last temple today which was a good one to end on and had an interesting use of colors and they had two stair cases one for boys and the other for girls which was interesting did bump my head while heading up showcasing a poor notice for tall people.

When we did reach the last floor in the building we did a little praying and also some sketching and I was really happy with my sketch it was a dragon that was on a pillar and I also drew the eye that was in the center of the room.

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Trip (day 12: more boats)

nice island with snake

we then went to our last hotel which was haunted

also found a Pokémon in the river

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Trip (day 11: coconut!!!)

Don't remember much from this one actually maybe ...

But we started by going to another market and we got off the bus and started walking I did see something a bit weird but funny at the same time I will not evaluate. When we got there we saw how people made noodles including color variants which was interesting then we had an opportunity to try this coconut sweet which was really really nice and without hesitation I bought a pack.

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Trip (day 10: The island)

Ok so after our first night in our new hotel we made our way to the harbour early in the morning to go on a little boat trip but already I liked Can Tho just by some of ways it looked.

After a nice relaxing boat trip to the island we got off and made our way to our first section of the island ...

We made this blue sweet cake which tasted really nice ...

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Nine tailed Fox

This beastie seems to resemble a fox ...

The origins of this fox seems to be that it came from Shanhaijing (classic mountains of the seas).

In one ancient myth, Yu the Great encountered a white nine-tailed fox, which he interpreted as an auspicious sign that he would marry Nüjiao. In Han iconography, the nine-tailed fox is sometimes depicted at Mount Kunlun and along with Xi Wangmu in her role as the goddess of immortality.[2] According to the first-century Baihutong (Debates in the White Tiger Hall), the fox's nine tails symbolize abundant progeny.