Today we went back to UEF for our final culture class. I found it interesting to learn that Vietnam has a 'female dominated tradition' (they worship goddesses), yet males dominate in society. Our teacher told us that this is because of the Chinese influence. Also, apparently the men move in with their wives families when they get married, which surprised me. After culture class, we had language class. We learned more conversation pieces, such as asking people where they are from (Bạn là người nước nào?) and to tell someone that we are American (Tôi là người mỹ!). We can also ask someone where they live (Bạn sống ở đâu?) and tell them that we are living in America (Tôi sống ở mỹ!). We also learned a few other phrases, such as "I study at the University of Pittsburgh", but I don't remember how to say it right now :( I'm a bit nervous about remembering everything, since we have a small oral test on Friday! During a break in language class, I taught one of the Vietnamese students some of the German I know - phrases similar to what we've been learning. Guten Tag! Hallo! Wie heisst du? Ich heisse ____ . Wie geht es dir? Es geht mir gut. Woher kommst du? Ich komme aus _____. Auf Wiedersehen! Tschau!
In the afternoon, we visited Glass Egg Digital Media. Glass Egg is a video game developer, and many well known brands come to Glass Egg for digital design projects. For example, EA Games and Microsoft will have Glass Egg develop the 3d digital design for cars and other components in their video games. Because Glass Egg is an outsourcing company, they do not profit when their clients perform well and sell a lot of games, but they also do not suffer when clients go bankrupt. Often, employees of clients that go bankrupt will refer their new employers to Glass Egg, widening their client base. Glass Egg also owns Lush, so they very generously treated us to VIP seating tonight.
For dinner, we started by going to a street vendor for sticky rice and chicken. It was very good! After that we went to New York City Desserts, where (most of us) got desserts. They had a lot of menu items that looked good too, but being full from the rice and chicken, I went ahead and got tiramisu. It was delicious, as was the cheesecake that Alex and Hailee very kindly allowed me to have bites of.
After dessert, we went to a nearby mall. It was very upscale, with many designer brands - so it was just as expensive, if not more, as in the United States. Then we went to Lush, and it was Ladies' night, which meant free drinks for the girls from 10-midnight! Our entire Plus3 group went together, and I had a great time :)
(sorry for the belated post)
At New York City Desserts
mmmm..... tiramisu!
Lush!
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