Exchange Activities Part 3

Today, we had our 3rd exchange activities with the Vietnamese students. We had exchange activities with students of Lac Hong University. It is also the only exchange activity that is out of our hostel. At first, I was kind of interested to find out how the university looks like, thinking whether it will be like Singapore that big with all the things in it. However, in the end, we were asked to go a park. This is because they said that there are no more space in the university for our exchange activities to be held at. I was quite surprise thinking that a university which is big do not have enough place for us.

Waited and waited, the students are late. However, this is nothing wrong as our Vietnamese lecturer told us that being late in Vietnam is something common. There is also a saying here saying that '' Time is Rubber'' to refer to this. Our first game is the bamboo dancing game meaning that some people will need take the bamboo then harmonize then someone will need to dance/jump over. Because I was shy of playing it, hence, I tried the making of the bamboo. It was quite fun but tiring. Sweat all over when only a little while.
After that, getting into a circle like again. Choosing people to go up for games, seriously, this is something I am very afraid, because I am have a low comfort level with strangers. Haha! But... yes, I was asked to go up. Quickly get into group, I choose the one and only group which is all my friends in. We were asked to eat apple without using our hands and puke out the seeds, and of course it's a small apple. It's not easy eating like that, because the apple is still too big for us. After the game, it's like pinic time. We sat on a mat and eat the tidbits we had bought for each other. Some photo taking session and our day had ended.

Before leaving the place, I had seen one family playing blind mice/Eagle catching the chicks. Nothing special? The family consists of the kids and their grandparents. It's their grandparents who brought the kids to the park and played. This type of scene is hard to be seen in Singapore, as children nowadays won't be interested to go out with their grandparents let alone playing with them. Kids in Singapore are more towards Westernization, they are more independent outside. Family relationships seem to be lesser here too.

I hope to see more of these in Singapore, but it's really hard to see.