Words that worked in Hanoi felt unfamiliar again in a Ho Chi Minh City taxi.
At nineteen, Heo Gan began living independently in Vietnam while working to cover daily and study costs, then took on interpreting and local coordination in Hanoi. In Ho Chi Minh City, a different accent made him a beginner again, and finding and contracting a home meant navigating countless conversations himself. Those experiences built a habit of reading people’s context before the numbers.