The fifth day was very fun and interesting. We started off the day with a lecture about the Mekong Delta, where we are taking a day trip tomorrow. The guest lecturer taught us about the culture and ethnicities that are located in the Delta. We learned that there are four main ethnicities in the Delta and each one has a different country of origin. This is good information to know so that we do not offend or embarrass any of the Vietnamese that live in the Delta. After the Mekong Delta lecture we had another language class. In this lecture we learned the structure of sentences and verbs. We also learned the days and months and reviewed numbers and conversation phrases.
After our language class we went on a company visit to ACDI/VOCA to learn about the Success Alliance that is going on in the Mekong Delta. Basically the Success Alliance is a program that helps the farmers plant and successfully grow cocoa. The company executives were very nice and gave each of us a hat and bag. When the company visit ended we went to karaoke with a few of the Vietnamese students. Karaoke is apparently a very popular hobby here in Vietnam because there are Karaoke bars everywhere. It was so much fun to hang out with the Vietnamese students and sing very old American songs, like N’sync Bye, Bye, Bye. I am very excited for the days ahead because we have two day trips coming up this weekend, one to the Delta and the other to the beach!
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