Welcome Festivities

We are off and running in Hue beginning with our welcome reception held in a lovely open air restaurant with the staff of Hue University's College of Foreign Languages. Besides the Dean and the University's Vice Chancellor for International Relations, there were several Hue history professors attending and a great bunch of junior staffers who will be working with our group as Vietnamese teachers, interpreters on our two weekend trips, and support staff in the office. Junior staffers received UCR ballcaps while senior staff received an assortment of gifts from UCR-pens and moneyclips. In this pic, the Vice Chancellor very happily shows the UCR banner I picked up before leaving. I didn't bungle the introductions too badly, and the UCR students all showed up dressed to the nines.