Quyen Nguyen

NNECT aims to reduce food delivery costs for students, help local restaurants in the pandemic and reduce the environmental impact of food delivery.

Being an international student from Vietnam, I have always been aware of my positionality as an outsider in British Columbia.

I am from a small town in the middle of Vietnam, so small and uninteresting that I never explicitly mention it unless people ask.

I don't have to tell you that we're in the heat of finals season and you, me and everyone we know are in the anxiety trenches.

It was the last night before our high school year-end ceremony. Thirty eighteen-year-old kids sat together around the campfire on the beach. The sea breeze, mixed with the fire, shifted through our faces.