I woke up really early in the morning to pack and meet up with the rest of the group at the hotel to fly to Singapore. It was another emotional morning for me having to say goodbye to my family for another year since I will not be back after this trip. At 10 a.m., we arrived in Singapore, took the MRT and finally checked in the hotel at around 1 p.m. Courtney, Brandon, Lucas … [Read more...] about Day 6: Singapore- Merlions Park and CelaVie
I woke up early to meet up with the group at 6. 30 at the hotel to drive to Cu Chi. I have never visited a brewery before so I was really excited to see how beers are made. We arrived at SABECO at around 9.15 a.m. and got a tour around their production line. SABECO produces 4 main products, in order from low price to premium: Saigon Beer, Saigon Beer Expo, Saigon 333, and … [Read more...] about Day 5 in Vietnam: SABECO Brewery and Project Vietnam Special Needs Center
I decided to join the group on the forth day to visit Royal HaskoningDHV- where me and Kristina did an internship at last summer. I was really excited to see Ms. Thao and Mr. Duy again because we have worked closely with them during the internship. The company did not seem to change much to me because I last visited them about 4 months ago. However, it seems that they are … [Read more...] about Day 4 in Vietnam: Reunion with colleagues at Royal HaskoningDHV
I spent my third day at the biological parents' house one more time. It was my grandmother's death anniversaries so we had a family reunion. It turned out to me more formal than I expected. We had over 80 relatives and family friends that came over and my family also had someone outside catered the food and organized the event. This is one of the celebration that is quite … [Read more...] about Day 3 in Vietnam
My biological parents and some relatives live outside the city so I had quite a long trip the second day to visit them. We took the highway out of district 7 to go outside the city limits. This highway used to be the biggest and most developed one but now it seemed like they have not done much maintenance to the street. The road was becoming more bumpy and many of the plants on … [Read more...] about Day 2 in Vietnam: Visit family and Relatives