We’re only 3 days from the end of the trip and it’s beginning to sink in. We had our second to last culture and language classes today, with our Vietnamese teacher bestowing upon us knowledge that we are to have a final test in Vietnamese in class on Friday. It will be interesting to see how much we’ve all improved in the language in a mere two weeks. Lunch followed language as usual, during which we agreed on what time to meet in the lobby of the hotel after we got back so we could go to CBRE for our meeting with Patti.
When we got to the real estate office in which Patti worked, she informed us that there was a meeting going on in the room that she had planned for us to talk in. So, we took a little walk down the street to a nice little coffee shop that so gratefully allowed us to set up the tables upstairs and have an informal Q&A session. Being at a coffee shop, Dr. Berman and Patti told us that we could order something to drink. They had all kinds of smoothies and milkshakes; I personally went with one of the chocolate variety. Patti really put things about the city and country in perspective for us, explaining how the government pretty much owns the land; people just pay to lease it for a certain period of time. She seemed to know a lot about being a foreigner and living in a Communist country, having come to Vietnam in 1995 and living there ever since.
After our nice talk with Patti, we headed back to the hotel, where Austin and I blogged for a bit and then promptly fell asleep by 5, not waking up until 6 the next morning. It was glorious.
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