We're Dropping Like Flies

So after two days of being the only weakling of the group, this morning we found out that two of us got sick overnight and had to stay in. This was pretty concerning because you don't stay in if you're on vacation (basically) unless you were really sick. After hearing of these unpleasantries we headed over to UEF to have our two classes in the morning.

Our first class was a history class of the area around Ho Chi Minh City and how it was shaped by wars, occupations, and invasions over the years. The professor had a few colorful remarks regarding China which I found pretty interesting such as that China always tries to build the "biggest and tallest things". Vietnamese language class was pretty involved and fun as usual and then we went for our amazing lunches as usual.

Following that we went to listen to a guy from U.S. commercial services who definitely has the best job in the world. He talks with the Vietnamese government and U.S. companies for U.S. investment and always has something interesting or exciting happening. Regardless of how stressful the job is it was really cool to get to know this kind of thing while we're still early in college.

We finished our day by going to a nice Vietnamese restaurant that the ever wonderful Kate recommended. At this point, our host/friend/tour guide was single-handedly showing us the nice places to go in Ho Chi Minh City. Afterwards she took us to a cake place to get some fantastic deserts and then took us to a rain forest themed kind of drink place that was oozing with awesome. If you're reading this cheers you Kate, you're pretty amazing.