Day 11

Now on this day it really hit us all that we will only have about two more days here in Viet Nam. So we ate breakfast like usual then left for UEF all decked out in matching shirts for our soccer match in the afternoon. We arrived to the school and walked up the seven flights of stairs for the second to last time to see a table with some students. They told us to write our names on a name tag and choose a paper with a number on it out of the fishbowl. I chose number one. It decided which group we would be in for the morning.

We got into the room where all the table were already taken out of the room and chairs lined the walls. We said our hellos and took our seat for Tony, one of the UEF students, to sing a song for everyone. He was very good! We then chose group names and started with our activities. The first activity we did was each group was asked a question. Our question was how do students handle school and working. The Pitt students all said time management. The UEF students say they do not normally work and study at the same time. Then we got into our second activity of a blindfolded yogurt race. Hard to explain. There's a video on facebook of us doing the race. We then took lots of pictures and headed off to the field to play soccer. The field was a turf field but it was a lot smaller than we imagined. It was very hot so we drank a lot of water. I would say some of the Pitt students played very well and we were able to hold our own against the UEF and ICP soccer players.

Once the match was over we had lunch at the Victory Hotel before going to the War Remnants museum. The museum was very graphic and hard to stomach. By the end of the museum, I needed to leave because the images were way to hard to look at and some things they said about the Americans or the war in general was way too intense for me.

The rest of the day was filled with shopping and going out as a large group for the last time. We are all getting sad yet a tiny bit excited to be going home. I'm pretty sure we all miss our beds.