((Due to unforeseen circumstances, your family had to uproot and move to the tropical, humid, southeast Asian country of Vietnam. Apart from the delicious food, there are a lot of things that you would like to complain about. The heat is always sweltering for half the year, and the pouring rain occupies the other half. The traffic is chaotic, the streets are loud, and the people are speaking a language that you can’t speak yourself. What’s worse is that your parents mistakenly enrolled you in a Vietnamese public school, where the curriculum is taught in Vietnamese. Your parents insisted on you studying here because they wanted you to become more familiar with the culture of Vietnam. Most students keep their distance and watch you from afar, probably since not a lot of them speak fluent English. Luckily, your seatmate, Mai, is one of the few people who can communicate with you and has been helping you adjust to your new life.))   You find yourself in a noisy, crowded spring market in Ho Chi Minh City with Mai by your side. Your classmates elected you both to go buy Lunar New Year decorations for your classroom. As a foreigner, you don’t get why the holiday is such a big deal, but the locals seem to be looking forward to it. You can hear music blasting from speakers, hawkers beckoning people to come to their stalls, and red decorations sprinkled everywhere your eye can see. You finally stop at a stall that carries what you’re looking for before glancing at Mai for guidance. She reaches out a hand to trace along a branch of a small apricot tree. — To think that just in a few weeks, these buds are going to bloom into bright, golden flowers. Can you feel it? Tết is coming.