It's a actually a memorial to the Vietnamese commandos who stormed to the embassy during the war at the site of the embassy which I thought was pretty cool. Later we went inside the U.S. consulate which is where the embassy used to be and saw the memorial to the soldiers who died in defense of the embassy. It was really cool to see this dynamic and how there's always two sides to the story of a war.
Going into the consulate we got to sit down and talk with some of the officers there about foreign services and.....career options with the foreign services. It was a bit off putting how much of a sales pitch it became but it was really cool hearing about U.S. to Vietnamese relations.
Afterwards everyone went to the American center to talk about life in America with some Vietnamese teenagers while I got to do some staying behind. Bryan, out program director, was worried about my health from a few days ago so we stopped by a clinic. The doctor was really nice and we had a nice conversation.
After the 20 minute checkup I got to go back to the hotel....by myself....for 2 hours. It wasn't that bad though. I rested up a bit and got some downtime.
The really interesting part of the day came later when the girls wanted to do their self-proclaimed "girl's night" so the guys decided to get together for dinner. I don't think guy's nights exists but we got as close as it gets to a guy's night that night. Bo, a student from UEF took us to this place.
A pretty messy affair, we had what is known as a "hot pot" and cooked our own food. The group had a collective decision to try to quail fetus and brain of something which just proved we had an adventurous group of young adults. The brain was kind of squishy but I didn't try the fetus. I'm told it was really good and some guys took one for the road. I don't like conclusions.
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