Outgoing: Coffee & Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum ~ Local Supporting Team

At last LCM, Maggie asked everybody if we could have coffee together talking about something related to culture on Monday (20/06), then I decided to arrange a day out for interns as well. Hence, the plan was having coffee at Highland coffee bar near Hoan Kiem Lake at 10AM, then taking the bus to Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and some attractions around it in the afternoon.

Unfortunately, some LSTers had their duty so they could not join the outgoing day, so only Minh with her friend and Phuong go with interns. Shame on Phuong, she was late because she woke up too "early" that day, and said hello to the morning at 12:30 PM, and Minh could not go in the morning because of her final exam at university. The 3 interns: Maggie, Eden, and Joe decided to drink coffee at Highland and then went around the Old Quarter.

1:30 PM, Phuong showed up, then everybody had lunch together at Lotteria Fast-food Restaurant. There, we talked a lot about everything, and mostly about Vietnamese Women and the culture. Although the cultures of Vietnam, China and some other Asia countries have some similar points, Vietnam culture still has something different, and it seemed to amazed the interns. The topic continued with the difference between Vietnam women in the past and at present. There are also differences between the characteristics of North - Middle - South women, and everybody was eager to know it.

2:30, we waited for Stella, Minh, and her friend to come, then we took bus 9 to Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum. When getting there, Phuong and Minh guided everybody to go to the One Pillar Pagoda first, telling a bit about the meaning of the Pagoda. After going inside the pagoda, we moved to Ho Chi Minh Museum. Unluckily, the museum does not open on Monday and Friday, so we only walked around and took pictures of the museum and mausoleum. The weather was getting hotter and hotter, and sugar cane juice and ice tea made us less thirsty. We walked to Lenin park (Lenin garden) and the Hanoi Flag Tower before going home.