Teachers Day

So I forgot to let everyone know about Teachers Day in Vietnam.  Teachers are well respected here and on the 20th of November every year there is a Teachers Day.  Students buy gifts for teachers like flowers, cakes etc.  At RMIT there were special stalls set up to sell gifts for the teachers.  I received a lovely bunch of flowers from my students at the HR Company and Phil got a bunch from one of his students as well as a muffin.

Helen O Grady Drama Academy and City Smart the company that owns it had a celebration on the Monday night.  The night was unusual with a competition for best group photo, we were given a coloured star as we arrived and the colour gave us our group.  We had to do crazy photos.  There was a  sweets making competition that was made earlier but judged by a group of us on the night...loved an amazing sticky banana coconut concoction.  There was a buffet with salad, pizza, soup, chicken wings, fruit, Vietnamese sweets loads of things to try which was nice.
Following that there was a competition for King and Queen of the evening and everyone had to vote.   My teachers aid from Helen O Grady dragged Phil up to be in the running.  She then proceeded to hand out stickers to everyone to stick on their favourite guy.  Of course I voted for Phil but so did loads of others!  He ended up winning...crazy!  Here he is below with all of his stickers on during the proceedings.

 Below is Phil with his stickers (he has tickets on himself has a new meaning!) with Kim, Ms Claire and Tracey, 2 teachers assistants and the current program manager.

                             This is our group...Ms Claire, Dung (my TA), Kim, Tracey and me