Today was the first that we didn’t have classes. Instead of going to the business college, we went to a business park. The business park, VSIP is a place where businesses congregate because they are offered a tax break and don’t have to deal with utilities. It is like renting an office building, except that usually it is factories in the area. I wonder why no one does this in America.
After visiting the business parks headquarters, we visited II-VI, an optics and semi-conductor company that is based in Pittsburgh but has a factory in VSIP. At II-Iv we saw how semi-conductors and lenses for were made. Most of the people working on the floor were women because they had smaller hands that could handle the equipment better.
After II-IV we had a delicious lunch at the hotel. I ate mollusk. It was good. Although we were scheduled to visit Acenx, the company that I researched, it was canceled because the guy we were meeting was out of the country. Instead we went to a bank. The visit started bad when the person talked in Vietnamese for 5 minutes. It got better once people asked some questions. We learned that the standard interest rate in Vietnam is 14% which is incredible.
After the bank, we went to a noodle shop and had delicious soup for dinner. For seven people, the total cost was 24 dollars. Everything is nice and cheap here in Vietnam, I think the sticker shock is going to be when I get back to the States.
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