I spent a week in Da Nang which is half way between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh.  I was there for our yearly Habitat Vietnam conference which involved about 50 people.  It was a great week catching up with people I had met before and meeting new people.  I did my first presentation with a translator and it went well.  The advice that I was given was to keep it slow and short.  This is harder than you would think and if the translator doesn’t quite get what you are saying, you then have to word it differently.  It was also the first time that I have had my photo taken during a presentation that I was giving.

We had a Gala dinner the first night and celebrated Habitat Vietnam’s 15th birthday.  We then had a music video dance competition.  Yep, you heard it, we were divided into 4 teams and each team was given a music video and we had to create costumes and then dance to it.  It was hilarious.  We had a K-pop song (Korean Pop) and even though it was a draw between all 4 teams because we were allowed to vote for ourselves, I think we were the best.

We also had an interesting presentation on Asbestos.  It is currently still legal here in Vietnam to manufacture and construct with, so Habitat is working on educating people on the health risks.  We had a demonstration about what to wear if you are handling the material.