Last night was a real adventure, as we went to a Vietnamese nightclub. Getting there and back was the most interesting part. It can be very difficult to navigate through such a foreign city, so Steve used some of his newfound language skills:
“Adal, Lush,” which means, “Where Lush (the name of the club).” This eventually got us there. Not surprisingly, however, there was a good amount of Europeans and some Americans. I must say that they, like us, stick out like sore thumbs. I met some people from the UK, France, and Minnesota. All of the foreigners, including the Vietnamese that I met so far have respect for Americans, which is nice I think. Today we got up at the usual time and headed to the university for a history/culture class and our daily Vietnamese language class. The history professor was extremely passionate about Vietnamese culture, so it was a really interesting class. I did not know how much crap the Vietnamese had to take for the past 1000 years from China. We had a military presence in Vietnam for about two decades, while the Chinese attacked during every Chinese dynasty.
Our site visit today was a trip to the south edge of the city, at the company, Phu My Hung. We met a company representative on the 12th floor of their building and learned all about this infrastructure project they were doing. They are transforming the area into an extremely nice urban area, a place fit to house a hundred thousand people. A model showed the plans for the layout of the new South Saigon area. It looks like it will a really modern, cool place to be for Vietnamese in the area.
After getting back, I took a nice nap, as I went to bed around 2:30 and woke up at 6:45 today. Just got back from eating, now we’re all gonna go explore the town. We haven’t made up our mind yet where we’re yet.
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