August 2010
5 posts
Week 2
Monday: School started
1) Intermediate Viet w/ Anh Thai
2) Int. Relations
3) Intl. Business
4) UCHANU
5) Service Learning
Wednesday: Inception at Megastar
Thursday : Meeting “Speed Dating” with Viet Lang partners (hope I get a good one)
Friday: Shopping with Chi Yen!!!! 3 dresses :), Bar and CLub Hopping (Seventeen, Red Lounge, Club Jam, Hair of the Dog, end with Bia Hoi)
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Thursday Shopping
Thursday:
Got an excited phone call from my dad this morning who found out my Vietnam phone works so he called me at 7am which is earrrly considering today was only my real day to sleep in really. but it was good hearing from them. they’re going to visit me in September!
Had my language placement test for Vietnamese this morning. It was easier than I expect, a lot easier than when I...
Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday:
Monday: We waited around for the other UC students to arrive. We ate Ga Tan in the morning and then I took a nap before dinner. For dinner, we went to eat at a Saigon restuarant where they served Com Tan. Then, we took some of the new UC students to Dragonfly where we got Patrick really drunk because it was his last night in Hanoi. Lan got super drunk and was crying on the ride home so me and...
So Far...
Starting Wednesday night, my family and I drove to SFO for my airplane to Vietnam. The flight was at 2am on Thursday morning so we had to be there early. I was flying with all Berkeley kids. The flight was fine, it went by pretty quick, the food was pretty decent and we got like 4 meals. Stopped in Taipei, Taiwan where we got on Vietnam airlines, then on our way to Vietnam. Coming off the plane,...
Sketchy
I’m getting my student visa to study in VN. But it was way more super sketchy than it should have been…
All the students are approved for a multi- 3 month visa ONLY! they started tightening the visa policy due to immigration so that only 3 months visas are allowed now. In the middle of the program, we’ll get ours extended in VN when needed.
Calling the SF consulate about the...
