Last week I posted a video about our volunteer abroad and teach abroad participants in Thailand - a ride on a motorcycle taxi. Following the "traffic" theme, I took this video from a taxi. I was visiting our Conversation Corps and Conversation Partner locations in Ho Chi Minh City. I am fascinated by how people get around in different parts of the world. In Vietnam you see cars, busses, but mostly motorcycles. Sometimes you'll see a family of five riding on the same bike. The lines painted in the middle of the road seem to be mere "suggestions"! Driving in Ho Chi Minh City means really being alert, and looking in ALL directions.
Vietnam is an incredible place to visit ... and even greater to come to for volunteering and teaching. With GeoVisions, you can help students at leading hospitality colleges improve their conversational English. You can choose to volunteer in Ho Chi Minh City for a month, then spend another month in the Mekong Delta, at Vietnam's incredible beaches, or in the capital city, Hanoi.
Vietnam has a 90%+ literacy rate. Young people spend a higher percentage of discretionary income on education than any other Asian country. Vietnam supplies laborers to countries where they NEED to speak English, or Japanese, or Chinese, or Korean -- and you can help them speak foreign languages better. Vietnam - 2010 - It's high on my list of places you've got to be!