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A Student's Guide to Study Abroad in Hanoi, Vietnam A STUDENT’S GUIDE TO STUDY ABROAD IN HANOI, VIETNAM Prepared by the Center for Global Education CONTENTS Section 1: Nuts and Bolts 1.1 Contact Information & Emergency Contact Information 1.2 Program Participant List 1.3 Term Calendar 1.4 Passports, Visas and Tickets 1.5 Immunizations 1.6 Power of Attorney/Medical Release 1.7 International Student Identity Card 1.8 Register to Vote 1.9 Travel Dates/Group Arrival 1.10 Orientation 1.11 What to Bring /Packing Section 2: Studying & Living Abroad 2.1 Academics Abroad 2.2 Money and Banking 2.3 Housing and Meals Abroad 2.4 Service Abroad 2.5 Telephones and Email Access 2.6 Travel Tips Section 3: All About Culture 3.1 Experiential Learning: What it’s all about 3.2 Adjusting to a New Culture 3.3 Culture Learning: Customs and Values Section 4: Health and Safety 4.1 Safety Abroad: A Framework 4.2 Health Care and Insurance 4.3 Women’s Issues Abroad 4.4 HIV 4.5 Alcohol and Drugs 4.6 Traffic 4.7 Politics 4.8 Voting by Absentee Ballot Section 5: Coming Back 5.1 Registration & Housing 5.2 Reentry and Readjustment Appendix 1: Tentative daily schedule for the Fall 2014 Vietnam program SECTION 1: Nuts and Bolts This handbook is designed to be useful throughout your stay in Vietnam. Please bring it with you and leave a copy with your parents. 1.1 CONTACT INFORMATION FACULTY DIRECTOR Professor Mark Jones Art Department Carriage House 103 Hobart & William Smith Colleges Office phone: 315 781 3490 US Cell Phone 843 822 0535 Email: [email protected] Faculty contact abroad: Vietnamese Cell: 091 451 9697 OR: if calling from the U.S. dial 011-84-91 451 9697 For emergencies in Vietnam or if you’re delayed in transit use Prof Jones email or his Vietnam cell phone He will arrive in Vietnam several days early to be situated and ready to receive all of you on 3 September. ADDRESS, PHONE AND FAX OF HOST INSTITUTION: CET Academic Programs Kate Maruyama and Todd Skauge Japan and Vietnam Programs Manager 1920 N Street, NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20036 Phone: 202.349.7352 or 800.225.4262, ext. 7319 Fax: 202.342.0317 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Vietnam Office: CET Vietnam Immersion Program Dr. Christophe Robert Mobile (within Vietnam): 0903-081-807 Mobile (from US): 011-84-903-081-807 Hong Bang University CET Vietnam Program 4th floor, 45 Dinh Tien Hoang, District 1 Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam If you have questions for CET during the summer, please direct these to Todd Skauge or Kate Maruyama (Kate’s on maternity leave until July) NOT to Christophe Robert. Once you arrive in Vietnam, you should direct any concerns you might have to Professor Jones, the faculty director, or to 2 Dr. Robert, our on-site coordinator. He will work closely with Professor Jones to deliver all cultural and logistic arrangements for the program. Adddress for Students in HCMC (September 3 – September 25*): <student name> Union College or Hobart & William Smith Colleges 168 Hai Ba Trung Street District 1 Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam Address and Phone Numbers for Students in Hanoi (October 1* – December 10): <student name> Union College or Hobart & William Smith Colleges Nha Khach A2 Bach Khoa (student residence) Hanoi, Vietnam phone (general residence ph.): 84-4-869-5548 or 84-4-869-1327 *You will be on an excursion from Sept 25-Oct 1 and thus not staying at either of these locations above during that period. Remember that there is a 12 hour time difference to Vietnam (after the U.S. goes off daylight savings time), plus you cross the International Date Line. So 10:00 am on Friday here would be 10:00 pm on Friday in Vietnam. INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS STAFF EMERGENCY NUMBER AFTER HOURS/WEEKENDS: 315-781-3333 Hobart and William Smith Colleges Union College Thomas D’Agostino, Director Lara Atkins Trinity Hall, 3rd Floor Director of International Programs Hobart and William Smith Colleges Union College, Old Chapel, 3rd Floor Geneva, New York 14456 Schenectady, New York 12308 315-781-3307 (tel) phone (office) 518-388-6002 315-781-3023 (fax) fax: 518-388-7124 e-mail: [email protected] 24 Hour Emergency Cell Phone 518-573-0471 Contact for: Emergencies e-mail: [email protected] and other critical issues Amy S. Teel, Programs Operations Manager (same address, tel, fax) e-mail: [email protected] Contact for: Program details, flight information, etc. Doug Reilly, Programming Coordinator (same address, phone and fax) e-mail: [email protected] Contact for: Orientation questions, return issues, SIIF grants, the Aleph, etc. Sharon Walsh, Short Term Programs Coordinator (same address, phone and fax) 3 e-mail: [email protected] Contact for: Info on short-term/summer programs Sue Perry, Office Support Specialist (same address, phone and fax) e-mail: [email protected] Contact for: Paperwork, general inquiries 1.2 PROGRAM PARTICIPANT LIST FALL 2014 HWS Vietnam Students FullName Email Carsky,Bush,Cecelia [email protected] DeRosa,Michael [email protected] Drazek,Sky [email protected] Fearey,Kaila [email protected] Kertanis,Ryan [email protected] McLaughlin,Erica [email protected] Mullaney,Ryan [email protected] Philibert,Anna [email protected] Stern,Nikolai [email protected] Tinklepaugh,Ryan [email protected] von Bradsky,Gabrielle [email protected] Union Vietnam students First name Last name Email Allison Borek [email protected] Kaitlyn Brew [email protected] Andrew Fellows [email protected] Danielle Frederick [email protected] Miles Ingraham [email protected] Sylvie Kalikoff [email protected] Peter Scatena [email protected] Benjamin Schroeder [email protected] 4 1.3 TERM CALENDAR Fall 2014 (some adjustments may be made – for more detail consult daily calendar at end of this book) Depart U.S. September 2 Arrive in Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City) September 3 (very late!) HCMC Sleep-in, unpack, relax, group dinner September 4 Orientation to Vietnam and HCMC September 5 Free morning, afternoon excursion September 6 Day trip to Long Hai beach w/buddies September 7 Intensive language training begins September 8 Other classes begin September 9 Day trip to Cu Chi and Cao Dai September 13 Independent photo project/buddy activity September 14 Mekong Delta excursions September 18-21 Last full day in Saigon September 24 Central Vietnam excursion September 25-Oct 1 Depart for Hanoi with group October 1 HANOI Arrival in Hanoi October 1 Orientation to Hanoi & internships October 2 Internship placements begin October 3 Free time/settling in October 4 PM Water Puppet Theatre October 5 Classes and internships run Monday-Friday Oct 6-Dec 5 Excursion to Halong Bay Oct 16-17 Excursion to Perfume Pagoda October 26 Excursion to NW Vietnam (Sapa) Nov 4-10 Thanksgiving break no classes November 26-30 Final internship meeting December 4 Excursion to Ho Chi Minh Tomb December 6 Buddy activity December 7 Program wrap up/farewell dinner December 8 & 9 Fly back to U.S. (or other destination from Hanoi) December 10 Arrive in U.S. December 11 1.4 PASSPORTS, VISAS AND TICKETS You have been asked to submit your passports to the HWS or Union study abroad office along with your Vietnamese visa application, passport-sized photo and a pre-addressed pre-paid certified return mail envelope and will receive your passports back with the visas inside them in July. 5 If you booked a seat on the group flight, you will receive your e-tickets a couple of weeks before departure. You have the option of traveling independently but if you do so we ask that you plan your own arrival EARLIER than the group so you can find them and transfer from the airport with them. Treat these documents (passport, visa, ticket) like your most valuable possessions; trying to replace such items in Vietnam will be a challenging and difficult process. We strongly recommend that you make at least two copies of these items before you leave. Give one to your parents. Keep one yourself in a safe place other than where you keep the originals. Then, in the event that the originals are stolen or lost, it will be much easier to replace them. Vietnamese immigration policies make it very difficult for us to secure visas good for more than one entry in/out of Vietnam. HWS and Union College policies also preclude students from travelling when there are any scheduled classes or excursions. Finally, we have safety concerns related to students travelling independently in Asian countries where you are unfamiliar with the language and customs. Therefore, we ask all students to plan to remain IN Vietnam for the duration of our program. If you would like to travel to/from other countries in the area such as Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, etc, you are most welcome to do so before or after the Vietnam program has begun/ended and you will need to determine whether those countries require a tourist visa and, if so, take responsibility for procuring those visas yourself. Given that Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam, most countries have embassies which can be visited and visas can be procured at them during our stay. Note - some countries in Asia have disease threats and immunization requirements that may differ from those in Vietnam. It is your responsibility to find out what these diseases are and obtain the appropriate immunizations. Any country's embassy can give you this information or check the US Centers for Disease Control website (www.cdc.gov/travel/seasia). Other good websites are www.campmore.com, and www.travmed.com.
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