When we got to UEF, we had activities with the English Club. They had games planned so it was pretty fun, and we met a few more UEF students. The soccer field was a bus ride away, so we all loaded up and got ready to win. It felt like 107 degrees outside, but since we were in the sun, many of the Vietnamese were still covered from head to toe, which makes sense culturally, though I was shocked they weren't getting overheated. I was definitely the MVP of the game, even though some of the guys might try to tell you otherwise.
After the game we all had time to take much needed showers and grab lunch before we went to the War Remnants Museum. I've never been particularly interested in history, and have to admit that I don't know much about the war, so I was really confused by the way they displayed some of the information. I knew it was going to be propaganda and out of context, but it was hard for me to know what was real and what wasn't going in with no background. I felt as if they were falsely portraying some aspects, but was truly amazed when I saw pictures of devastated areas next to the way the country looks today, they had truly been able to rebuild themselves. One one of the upper floors was an exhibit on reporters and photographers from the war, and I thought that one was really interesting since I spent a few years doing photography myself. That exhibit surprised me though, because they would say that a photograph was taken on the run or from far away, yet still know the story of all the people in them, so I wondered how much of that information was fabricated.
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