Week Four in Hue

Its been a relaxed middle week of the program as students have been focusing on their own independent study projects and reading before the end of the course. Here by the pool, Andrew Wilson and Gini Yoo pretend to be reading seriously from a textbook assigned for the morning lecture course and some article about the musical instrument Gini is studying here, dan bau. Andrew has been studying a local martial art form for his project.




Amy Le turned 19 last night, so Happy Birthday, Amy! Her sis Daisy produced a lovely birthday hat for her and the group arranged a cake. We ate at a 2-story, outdoor bamboo restaurant just a short walk from the hotel.
Amy and Daisy have been volunteering at a free medical clinic run by a very amazing local woman, Dr. Que (mentioned in an earlier post).











This week, John, Hue and Hong-Anh concluded their cooking course with Ms. Cuc at her garden restaurant inside the old city. Here they are posing upon completing the class. Hong-Anh took the course and discovered a few new dishes she can offer as part of her catering business in Riverside. Hue and John both claim they knew nothing about cooking before taking the class, and they plan on impressing their relatives when they visit them in the States, besides cooking delicous Vietnamese food for themselves.


This is really the calm before our final studying/touring storm as this week we are going into the history of the Second Indochina War and traveling from Friday to Sunday to visit the former demilitarized zone north of Hue and some places severely affected by the war. We'll also spend one evening at the beach for some rest.