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I Have 69 Days Left Before I Am Kicked Out Of Vietnam

Dominic Medford
5 min readApr 2, 2024

Before you read this know that this is unedited and unrefined to give you the truest glimpse into my headspace that I feel is murky at best and an impenetrable fortress of confusion to me. Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

I am on the clock. How do I make this work in this short space of time I am not too sure but what I know is that I can’t go back home after this not because I am not allowed. I just don’t want to.

That may sound overly dramatic but the truth is I just don’t want to be living the life that I was living before with the type of people that I had surrounded myself with.

BACKSTORY

So to give a little backstory. On the Tuesday the 12th of March this year I made my way onto a flight from Brisbane airport bound for Hanoi with the intent to not return to Australia again unless of my own choosing. Now I have defined this for myself as coming back because I miss family and loved ones, I have found I job that I want to pursue in Australia or to support family in sickness or hardship.

I don’t want to have my tail in-between my legs coming home to Brisbane airport on the 10th of June because I am in broke or in debt, out of options and having to find a bed to sleep in at my parents home.

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Dominic Medford
Dominic Medford

Written by Dominic Medford

Law and Political Sciences student in Australia who dabbles in writing about his thought processes in his spare time with the hope that it can be insightful.

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God luck,Dominic. It sounds like you are weighing up all your options well. How about Laos, Cambodia or Thailand?