2005 Journal

The 2005 Summer Program to Vietnam offers students a unique opportunity to see the new face of Vietnam, presented through a dynamic combination of field research, readings, and discussions by the students, along with lectures by the professor and distinguished Vietnamese and American experts.

Students are also participating in a Service Learning project, to reinforce their course content in a real life setting in Vietnam.

The following are Journal entries that student participants are sending back to St. John's while on their trip.

Jason He

• What is Vietnam?
• The Marble Mountains
• Can We Learn How to Sew?
• Tying Together Peoples and Nations

Alexander Stram

• Initial Perceptions and Experiences
• May 21-24
• May 25-27

Shu Zhen Chen

• Visit to Hoi An
• S.O.S. Children’s Village of Hanoi
• The Daughters of Charity

Stephanie Lau

• A Beautiful Country Not a War
• Service Learning

Stephanie Lau & Shu Zhen Chen

• To Hue from Danang

Vietnam Economic News
The 2005 trip was featured in the Vietnam Economic News on June 9, 2005 with a story entitled The Feelings of Vietnam. Read the story on their Web site.