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| Hoa Ngo, MVCC's visiting professor from KGCC in Vietnam, is experiencing snow for the first time. |
After a week, I think I can write a book about
differences between Vietnam and the U.S. I have experienced quite a lot of
interesting and “shocking” things.
Number one:
weather change. It’s cold in America. Everyone says so and now I know that, too.
But I am not looking forward to experiencing such cold weather. Excited then
disappointed - that’s my feeling about the weather. I hate putting on layers and
layers. Last Saturday I saw some rain, too. Perhaps America welcomes me with its
different types of weather.
My sisters and
colleagues back home are really excited that I can see snow. So finally I have
a picture of me with the snow (although it’s hard to see me in my aodai, but I
am really wearing one). I hope that the weather will be better soon to
give me a chance to look more fashionable.
A country of signs
It seems to me
that people don’t show others how to do things, they figure out how to do things by
themselves. Everything comes with instructions, even food. In Rach Gia, the
city in Vietnam where I live, we go to the market and buy lots of food and we cook them
as we want to; but here in America I see the food in boxes with ingredients
and instructions and nutrition facts outside. That’s weird!
Everywhere I go, I see signs like “Push” or “Pull” or “Press.” On the way to Rome campus
last Saturday, I saw a “Deer” sign, something I had never seen before. All these things are totally strange to me.
