smile at everyone I meet for one day

This goal is really tough for me – I think of it quite a lot but I’m scared to smile at folk most of the time. Yesterday, however, I was out on a long bushwalk and smiled and said hello to pretty much everyone I passed. We then had a picnic in the park and I said hi to the guy cleaning the litter and smiled at a couple having a picnic then got all self-conscious and ignored everyone else…

Wow, I think I did this by accident. I’m smiling at everyone I meet, all the time, in Hanoi, partly because I’m travelling alone and it helps if people like me, but also because the people here are just so damn nice.