entry for the last field trip

The week began with a terrible news!!! I had to take HCM’s ideology since this week! I love HCM so much but I’m already having so many things wondering on my mind about the university system we are working in VN desired to be partly answered by the seminar on this Monday and ACCIDENTALLY the HCM’s ideology class started on the exactly same day huhuhu what a real pity………

Missed the seminar, I had to take HCM ideology class, basically it’s so alike to all history stuffs that I already learnt in schools that I felt asleep huhu but the teacher does not let anyone in class sleep at all. She spoke really loudly so that hardly anyone can have a good sleep.

These days I’ve been so busy with all the studying stuffs at school. Teachers are giving tests like every day and I hate tests >< I hate Bank MNG too  UC have just come back from the South and Phat invites me to the Bowling! How nice! I’d love to hichic But as I said, Bank management is in test period and UC guys intended to go bowling on the very night right before my test hichic I had to cancel hanging out with them one more time… so sad, I’ve never tried bowling before and we had so little time spend together…

This week is about the factory life in Vietnam. We had 40 pages of readings and a field trip of a WHOLE day to 2 factories around Hanoi area. I didn’t know this would be our last field trip and the class that day is second to last!!!! I can’t believe it hichic Seriously it’s so sad now, when I started to get quite close to many of UC guys… it’s kinda late…

The reading in the text book has a thing that amazes me really much! I thought I know how systems work in Vietnam but as the course goes by, really I feel like I didn’t know anything at all. There’s a pie chart showing how the selling price of a shirt is divided into costs of each process. Out of $45 selling price in the US, only $0.75 is paid for the labor… I didn’t believe in my eyes when I looked at that chart. How Vietnamese and many other Third World countries’ women’s labor is undervalued so much. Can we call it EXPLOIT??? Thinking of how the value of the shirt is distributed among factors of producing it, I feel like we’d better make clothes for Vietnamese market rather than receiving orders from the rich countries. But in a second thought, I realized that the money they gain from exporting is way too much higher than the sad fact that they are kinda being exploited.