This place isn’t for everyone, but it is most definitely for me. I enjoy everything about this place. Eating unusual food (but its really good), walking around among the locals (and feeling like a giant), haggling at the market with someone who speaks almost no English when I speak almost no Vietnamese …
But it also makes one appreciate the comforts and conveniences we take for granted in the US. A lot of people don’t realize that being born in the USA is like hitting the lottery.
Today we go to the US consulate and the American center ( a mall of course!). Yesterday we got to tour the Ahn Khoa company ( they make men’s underwear and women’s lingerie). It was interesting to see a domestic Vietnamese company and learn their approach to sales and marketing domestically, and their plan to enter international markets.
Sarah Evans says
I am a CIS 101 professor and a colleague of Professor Pham. She emailed out the link to this class blog, and I have been following all your comments.
What great insight – being born in the United States is like winning the lottery.
I am due in July and was just thinking the other day about how blessed some children are and how lucky I am to be able to provide for them. We are having a garage sale this weekend and I mentioned to my Mom that people in developing countries don’t need to have garage sales, but we are blessed to be have the “problem” of selling old items we don’t use anymore because we purchased new items.
Keep up the great posts!
Sarah Evans says
*blessed to have the *