After nearly 30 long hours of travel we finally arrived in Ho Chi Minh. We arrived at our hotel to get very little but much needed sleep before we begin our day. We started off the day with breakfast. It was kind of unusual seeing a bunch of food that we would normally see for dinner such as rice and beef. And I'd have to say that they really have some amazing juice. After breakfast we went to visit the University of Finance and Education. There they had a few presentations which included a puppet show and singing which was really good. After that we headed upstairs for our first class of Vietnamese. It's fun but tricky to get the tonal pronunciations right. For lunch we got to try some more Vietnamese food. I have a feeling I'm going to be eating pretty healthy these next 2 weeks and finally learn how to use chopsticks.
Headed back to the hotel for a little then visited the US Consulate. They gave us a little background history of Vietnam and our country's relationship with them as well as some history of the site which used to be the US Embassy. Some interesting stuff we learned there.
Getting ready to head out one last time for the day as I'm typing this. Hopefully by the time we get back from dinner I'll be able to sleep. It's not even 6:30 pm and I'm already yawning and can't wait to go to bed.
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