Day 2 - 24 November 2008
Xin chào (hello)! Yesterday, in the morning, we had breakfast in the hotel. Then, we visited Le Quy Don High School. On the way, in the bus, we were taught by our local tour guide how to speak basic Vietnamese sentences such as
Chào, bạo khỏe khong? (Hello, how are you?) and
Dạo này sao rồi? (How’re you doing?)
We were enjoying ourselves, trying to pronounce the unfamiliar words so that we could break the ice with the Vietnamese students. Even when we were alighting, we were trying hard, to practise pronouncing the words. We were then led to the school hall by the Vice Principal of Le Quy Don High School.
The Vietnamese students welcomed us with great warmth. We introduced ourselves and Jun Xing impressed them when he greeted in Vietnamese before he introduced himself.
They presented to us powerpoint slides introducing their history and customs of vietnam. They also gave us tips how to travel in Vietnam, recommending us some places to visit here.
We had a great time having a friendly Basketball match with the Vietnamese students. Our guest star, Mr Siva, had strengthened the team when he stepped onto the court. What’s score? Hmmm… not too sure. But we were very sure that we were having a lot of fun, sweating it out as we were playing basketball with them.
After our friendly match, we had our catered lunch placed in a rectangle box at the auditorium. The type of food served was rather similar to Singapore’s.
Next, out of no reason, we were invited to join the class for a one-hour nap! This was a rather different experience as the ones we shared in our country. The nap was probably a ‘power supply’ to their long school hours. Beginning at 8am and ending at around 5pm, it’s no wonder that they need to have frequent breaks to maintain their constant attentiveness.
In addition, we delightfully joined the class for a few lessons. We had English lesson which was conducted by Mr. Thomas, a foreigner who tried to make the class very interesting for us. Then we had a Biology practical session, cool enough, everyone was clad in ‘professor coat’, this was definitely a new practice for us! Highlighting the last lesson, we had home economic session. The students had spent 6 hours preparing spring roll before hand and fried it for us to savour. It was delicious!
At the end of the programme, we took a group photo and bid good bye. Some of us had even received small memorable gifts, and in exchange we gave them our precious collar badge as a momento.
After the visit to Le Que Don High School, we were all dead-tired and hungry. We were then brought to KFC for dinner, they had rice together with the chicken in a meal. On the 15mins walk back, we were faced with a ‘life-threatening’ After which we went back to the hotel and had a lesson about communication strategies which most of us benefited from it by learning how different communication style could result in various types of outcome.
(Reflection was done by Cherie Lim of 3/3 and Jeremy Tan of 3/5)
Chào, bạo khỏe khong? (Hello, how are you?) and
Dạo này sao rồi? (How’re you doing?)
We were enjoying ourselves, trying to pronounce the unfamiliar words so that we could break the ice with the Vietnamese students. Even when we were alighting, we were trying hard, to practise pronouncing the words. We were then led to the school hall by the Vice Principal of Le Quy Don High School.
The Vietnamese students welcomed us with great warmth. We introduced ourselves and Jun Xing impressed them when he greeted in Vietnamese before he introduced himself.
They presented to us powerpoint slides introducing their history and customs of vietnam. They also gave us tips how to travel in Vietnam, recommending us some places to visit here.
We had a great time having a friendly Basketball match with the Vietnamese students. Our guest star, Mr Siva, had strengthened the team when he stepped onto the court. What’s score? Hmmm… not too sure. But we were very sure that we were having a lot of fun, sweating it out as we were playing basketball with them.
After our friendly match, we had our catered lunch placed in a rectangle box at the auditorium. The type of food served was rather similar to Singapore’s.
Next, out of no reason, we were invited to join the class for a one-hour nap! This was a rather different experience as the ones we shared in our country. The nap was probably a ‘power supply’ to their long school hours. Beginning at 8am and ending at around 5pm, it’s no wonder that they need to have frequent breaks to maintain their constant attentiveness.
In addition, we delightfully joined the class for a few lessons. We had English lesson which was conducted by Mr. Thomas, a foreigner who tried to make the class very interesting for us. Then we had a Biology practical session, cool enough, everyone was clad in ‘professor coat’, this was definitely a new practice for us! Highlighting the last lesson, we had home economic session. The students had spent 6 hours preparing spring roll before hand and fried it for us to savour. It was delicious!
At the end of the programme, we took a group photo and bid good bye. Some of us had even received small memorable gifts, and in exchange we gave them our precious collar badge as a momento.
After the visit to Le Que Don High School, we were all dead-tired and hungry. We were then brought to KFC for dinner, they had rice together with the chicken in a meal. On the 15mins walk back, we were faced with a ‘life-threatening’ After which we went back to the hotel and had a lesson about communication strategies which most of us benefited from it by learning how different communication style could result in various types of outcome.
(Reflection was done by Cherie Lim of 3/3 and Jeremy Tan of 3/5)
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