We're not dead yet!
Everyone actually came to the visit today, which is practically a first! People are getting sick right and left, so the fact that we were all here was quite an achievement!
At UEF we got a long lecture on the different religions of Vietnam followed by another tiring language class. We were all already super tired (we went to a club last night and regardless of the lack of dance floor we tore it up!!) so the lecture plus the late night made the effort in that class so much harder. And seriously, if she tells us to shape our mouths like we're putting an egg in there one more time! But anyway!
No, dear reader, not a breath mint; it's "mouth perfume" that wants you to cheer up!
Instead of a company visit, we went to the US Consulate today. It's crazy being somewhere that I've seen in history books. Wait, speaking of history books, you know the ionic helicopter lift picture? Well that building is actually NOT the embassy, and they're tearing that building down this year! It's so iconic to us but obviously means nothing to them, so the building is coming down. We're gonna make sure we see it first. But back to the Consulate! So the Consulate used to be the embassy (the second one actually) but post reunification, the embassy is in Hanoi. So we listened to a some of the officers talk about what they do at the Consulate and took a tour of the grounds. It was great to see the plaque commemorating the officers who died while defending the embassy during the Tet Offensive, and yet right on the other side of the wall as the Vietcong's plaque commemorating their men who died attacking. The dichotomy was an interesting perspective.
Lunch pic
We then hung out with some Vietnamese students at the English center, which is part of the consulate but in a different building. They asked us questions about university in America, and then we just talked about food and what we like to do and that was really cool :) It's good fun trying to understand each other, but we make it work! They all try so hard to speak English, it makes me wish I was less horrific at Vietnamese hahah.
Tonight was so much fun. The girls went out with our Vietnamese hero, Kate. She took us under her wing day 1 and from helping us cross the life-threatening street to showing us where to eat, she's been so awesome to us. So we all went shopping and had a girls' night, which was great! The best was when we ended up having a dance party on the sidewalk and we had a store worker come and dance with us and people took videos and it was a good time!
Eating street food! Pizzelle and cake should be a street food in America.
Also, we got our Ao Dai today, and when we got measured for them we were told we'd look sexy, and if I may be o bold, she was definitely right :P
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