Crossing the street in Vietnam - adventure #1

It looks like our first adventure may happen as early as stepping out the door. This is what one of my team members found on You Tube:

Since traffic lights don't exist in Vietnam, I suggest that we take a lesson on street crossing prior to departure.

Demonstration from tourists:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C8Q4vBUp8Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlyOom0bwwY&feature=related

Based on the demos, I've learned that you simply take a deep breath, close your eyes and hope you get across in one piece. <grin>

This also seems to validate the other advice on not bothering with an alarm clock (and being an early to bed person may require ear plugs)

Are we there yet?

We're now 4 weeks away from our travel to Vietnam, starting our projects on Canadian Thanksgiving. It looks like I will get to Da Nang very early on Oct 9, so I'll have two days there to look around and get acclimatized before we start our assignments.

There is a team in Vietnam right now (the "Vietnam1" team). One of their comments was "don't bother with the alarm clock as the horns, motorbikes, cars, and other street noise are just FINE at waking you up!"

Apparently the rooms, while mostly clean, are also home to several creepy crawlies (no snakes though, thank goodness). We now have a hotel mascot. I'll leave it up to Vietnam 1 to name it.

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My IBM AdTech Blog

I started with adtech for blogging and so for those of you interested in some of my lead up thoughts on the Corporate Service Corps and our trips, start here.

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Some Introductory Pictures and Notes on Vietnam

Lots of information all over the web on Vietnam, but here are some quick links and notes that I particularly liked:

• Starting where we all should, with wikipedia's introduction to Da Nang
• Official "Welcome to Danang" from Danang City
• Some great photos of Danang and Vientam from Terragalleria (wonderful photos, somehow I am much less keen on trying my hand at photography while there given how wonderful these photos are)
• A timeline of Vietnam's history
• Some basic information on Danang from Circle of Asia

Note: The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent IBM’s positions, strategies or opinions.