Vietnam for a year

I guess most people know this by now, but I arrived in Vietnam for a year last week. I'm gonna be working as MCVPX for AIESEC Vietnam's first ever national team! Right now I'm in Hanoi coaching the LC. Me and Laura (the Australian girl who's gonna work with me) took a bus here from Guangzhou, China where we attended the Asia Pacific MC Transition Camp. It was an awesome conference with about 50 people from Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Indonesia, as well as the other internationals like me and Laura. Good times.

Yesterday I raised my first internship in Vietnam! Woohoo! So if anyone is looking for a job in social marketing, let me know. Me and Laura also attended the first day of the Global Summit of Women because there was a Doing Business in Vietnam forum. The event was quite boring, a bunch of feminist speeches hehe, but there were some very high profile people there such as the prime minister and many CEOs. We also got a bunch of free goodies: 1GB memory stick, Vietnamese hangbag and silk scarf, Miss Saigon Elegance perfume and a conical hat. I love going to events for free and getting free stuff. We went there so randomly: when we arrived in Hanoi we saw all those banners across the city and looked it up on the Internet.

Tomorrow we're taking a plane to Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) where we're gonna live for a year. I haven't been there yet. I'm excited about seeing the rest of my team again (Hanh and Phoebe, both Vietnamese) and starting to work with the full team!