Oh my goodness, I’m actually sobbing at the fact that this is our last blog post. 10 days goes by way too quickly. All the days have blurred together but I know each of them was so unique and incredible. Today was an… interesting wrap up of our professional experience here in Vietnam. We visited…
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Day 9: Changing perspectives
This trip is flying by and today was jammed packed with many more incredible experiences. We started the day back at UEF to learn more about Vietnamese culture and specifically, Buddhism. The most commonly practiced religion in Vietnam is traditional ancestor worship, which over 70% of the country observes, and the second most common is…
Day 7(8): kicking it with coherent
Yesterday was our day off of blogging but it was a really awesome day! That’s why the blog numbers are messed up because it’s day 7 of the blogs but day 8 of the trip. Yesterday, we visited the Cu Chi Tunnels that were used by guerrilla soldiers during what we know as the Vietnam…
Day 6: Dylan’s Delta Day!
An outdoor adventure day has been calling my name after so much time in the city and the Mekong Delta did not disappoint!! It was definitely a tourist-oriented experience, so I know I didn’t get a full picture or idea of anything, but I enjoyed what we did get to see today! Our first adventure…
Day 5: Non-gamer takes on game design company
I can’t believe we’re technically at the end of week one, it’s so sad!!! Time has flown. It’s hard to pick a highlight from week one because it’s all been incredible, but honestly, if I had to talk about one thing from this first week it would be the people. The pitt students, the UEF…
Day 4: Educating Vietnam, educating Pitt students
Wow, I can’t believe day 4 is already over. It somehow feels like we’ve been here for only a day but it also feels like we’ve been here for forever. I guess that’s what happens when we’re doing so much and having so much fun!! Today flew by especially because we didn’t start until 9:15…
Day 3: Tôi yêu Vietnam!
Day three, here we go!!! We started our day at UEF again with a guest lecture on “the role of green transformation and the sustainable economy in Vietnam.” It was really fascinating to compare green initiatives in Vietnam to those in the U.S. and to learn about how green transformations are affected by Vietnamese culture….
Day 2: Finally Pho Real
Chào bąn! Tôi tên là Thủy! That means “Hi! My name is Thủy!” Thủy is my Vietnamese name, it means water. We got our Vietnamese names in our language class this morning. We also learned the alphabet, pronouns, and some common greetings! It was really fun learning the tones and pronunciations of the letter. Some…
Day 1: We’re Celebrities!
Good morning, Vietnam! And a very early morning it was. Well, not really, but getting to the hotel at midnight made 8 am feel much earlier. I don’t feel like doing the math to calculate how many hours we spent traveling as a group, and whatever that number is add 12 hours for the time…
Dylan Butler’s Pho-nomenal Intro
Hi y’all! My name is Dylan Butler, and I’m a first-year business student studying marketing and business analytics. I’m a Texan at heart after living in San Antonio for the first 18 years of my life (so, yes, I use “y’all” constantly and unironically), and I’m excited to get out of this Pittsburgh weather! At…