While in Hanoi, a Story Slam appeared on our group’s calendar for a Saturday night, with the topic of “community”.  I admit that my first reaction was that I would enjoy being in the audience to see my first slam.  I then reminded myself that I am actively working on story-telling skills, so I really should volunteer regardless of my uncertainties of the format and the elusiveness of the topic.  Below is a rough transcript of the story I told that night.  Perhaps put yourself with another twenty people, in a second floor lounge at a Hanoi bar with rearranged, mismatched furniture and the sound of motorbikes coming in through an open window, to get a little bit of the ambiance and spirit of the evening….