tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74132812013820355282024-02-19T07:44:17.755-08:00Vietnam 22.2-21.5.2013Markus Miettinenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00884028346228229475noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7413281201382035528.post-43968665618707799252013-05-16T03:45:00.000-07:002013-05-16T03:45:03.879-07:00Last days in VietnamOnly couple of days left in Vietnam left for me. I met my Finnish friends yesterday in here and I began to miss home even more even though I think I will miss Vietnam when I go back to Finland. Almost three months have passed since I arrived here and many thing happened to me while being here as you can read from earlier posts. For the last weekend we are planning to organize a barbecue parties with all my friends in here. <div>
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We are working hard with the project in the university and I hope we can finish the project before I leave from here but if not then I will finish it when I return. Everything else is finished in here, tomorrow I will pick up my certificate from TMA solutions. </div>
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Rainy season has started here since it's been raining nearly every day for last couple of weeks but anyway weather is very warm during the rain and especially after the rain. </div>
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Not a lot of stories to tell at the moment since I have been staying in university for last couple of weeks. At the moment I am enjoying my last days in here and meanwhile i'm trying to finish the report. Next post is going to be written from Finland. </div>
Markus Miettinenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00884028346228229475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7413281201382035528.post-75671464379932179122013-05-10T03:13:00.000-07:002013-05-10T03:13:24.897-07:00Going home soonI have almost come to an end of my exchange in Vietnam, only 11 days left. I have really enjoyed my time in here! This has been mind blowing experience for me and I will remember this for the rest of my life. I will do final summary of my exchange after I arrive in Finland.<div>
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Today I finished my internship and had a final presentation about our project. Our application is not ready yet since internship will last for 2 weeks but since i'm going back to Finland I had to present my part earlier. I't was a great opportunity for me to join internship in TMA solutions and I learned a lot. As I told TMA managers one thing they should improve for the next foreign student is that the team they choose must consist English speaking members since my team mates had problems with speaking English. Also I could learn a lot more if we would be able to discuss in English properly. But in conclusion I am really happy about our result and everything I learned and did in internship. </div>
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We still haven't finished our project in university since my team mates are quite busy at the moment. I think we must continue writing the paper after I go back to Finland. But next week I have a lot of time to write paper so I hope I can finish it. So not much progress on project in university even though we have a good start at writing. </div>
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Tomorrow we are going to amusement park near downtown. I think it will be awesome! I really want to enjoy the time I have left in here as much as I can and do a lot of fun stuff also.</div>
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Markus Miettinenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00884028346228229475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7413281201382035528.post-28818809977735885752013-05-02T02:14:00.000-07:002013-05-02T02:14:10.728-07:00VacationIt's been a great week for me! In Vietnam we celebrate independence of south Vietnam in 30th of April thus we had 5 days of work. So we decided to take a trip to Da Lat City and Nha Trang beach with my French friends, Mr. Vinh and he's daughter. We started the trip Saturday morning 6 a.m. towards Da Lat city. During the way we saw amazing landscapes since Da Lat city is on the mountains. We arrived after 10 hours of travelling, luckily we rented a private car for us so we had more relaxed trip compared public bus. Weather in Da Lat was quite cold compared to Ho Chi Minh, only around 20 degrees(meanwhile in Finland there is only 5 degrees :D). First time during this exchange I had European food, a big tasty steak. Next morning we took a cabble car ride from the top of the mountain. We also took a roller coaster down from top of the mountains to see a waterfall. Luckily we were able to go back up with the same roller coaster.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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After Da Lat we started our journey towards Nha Trang beach. Landscapes was amazing when were driving to Nha Trang. In Nha Trang we swam in sea and water was so warm and clean!</div>
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Monday afternoon we started our way back to Ho Chi Minh city. I really enjoyed the trip since I wanted to visit different places in Vietnam and now I did it. Tuesday and Wednesday we spent shopping in Ho Chi Minh and now the holidays is over so we must return to our normal daily routines. </div>
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Time for a new post again even though not much happened during last week. Last Friday we had a day off from work since it was a holiday in here and we went to Cu Chi tunnels which is large complex of tunnels underground, 250km long. Vietnamese built these tunnels during the wars against French and USA. They were living under the ground and hiding from bombers. Cu Chi is like a small city underground. Also we had an access to these tunnels. You must almost crawl in tunnels so you can move forward. I cannot imagine life in tunnels since there was always dark and you can see sunshine only from small holes where you can shoot the enemies. How can you enter these tunnels? Well it is not easy, look at the picture below. Only way you can enter the tunnels is that small hole, it is about 40cmx30cm. You must enter the hole and lift your arms up. After that you take the “door” above your arms and slowly bend your knees so leafs and sand doesn’t fall above the “door” otherwise enemy will see the doors and they can easily destroy the tunnels. <br />
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I would like to introduce one of my best friends in here; Mr. Vinh. He is a teacher in Faculty of Forestry and since my guest house is near Faculty of Forestry we met each others nearly one month ago. He’s been helping me with buying a suit and I have had dinner and other activities with him. I have tasted couple of very interesting foods with him such as snake and turtle. It is fun to taste all these special foods since you cannot buy these from Finland.<br />
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Yesterday we had a barbecue parties with French people and Mr. Vinh. We had so much fun. We ate octopus, shrimps, clams and beef and for dessert mango, watermelon and dragon fruits.<br />
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Markus Miettinenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00884028346228229475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7413281201382035528.post-25963509826727305622013-04-10T22:59:00.002-07:002013-04-11T04:10:07.959-07:00Vietnam<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">
This chapter is more or less dedicated to people who do not know me. So my name is Markus and I am 24 years old student from University of Eastern Finland. My major is Information Technology. I came to Vietnam as an exchange student and my task is get to know local culture, people and of course do studies in here. I’m going to be here for 3 months totally and now I have been here for 1,5 months so I crossed the half way mark already. In here I am studying in Nong Lam University. Time has gone so fast and feels like I haven’t done all the things I want to do here, but luckily I have time left. Although I have done a lots of thing in here as you might noticed from the previous post.</span>
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I’m quite busy during the week since Monday and Wednesday I’m working for a full day(from 8 p.m. to 17.30 p.m.) and Friday I’m working for half day(from 8 p.m. to 12 p.pm) in TMA Solutions. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday I’m usually doing studies related to project and the course I’m attending to. In Sunday I try to rest and relax for the next week. And of course sometimes I visit places during the weekend for example the trip to Vung Tau beach 2 weeks ago.</span><br />
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This Wednesday we started to implement our application in TMA. I have had some difficulties with my teammates since they cannot speak English very well so it is very hard to discuss about our application with body language. But somehow we managed to design our application and finish all documents for it. And now it is time to implement so we don’t have to discuss and plan that much so it is easier for me(or maybe it is easier for my teammates). We are going to present our application in 10th on May so we don’t have much time left to finish our app. I think we are going to be busy with it.</span><br />
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The project in my university has started and actually we have started to implement already thanks to Mr. Nga who is giving a huge effort to the project. And also I’m starting to know how does the application works since we are using JSF framework which I’m not familiar with before I came here. It is framework for developing web applications. This week we had a long chat with Nga and after that I felt like I know what are we doing and how are we doing it. Also I’m relieved about the paper(which I mentioned in previous post) since Mr. Thien said that he will help me with writing. But now that I know details of our app I think I am able to write a lot of text also by myself.</span><br />
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I will update you about my jobs later on when we proceed.</span><br />
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I have had a lot of fun with the French people in here. We have played a lot of volleyball with them against Vietnamese people. But we must improve our skills if we want to beat Vietnamese. Also it is nice to have friends who I can chat and hang around with. They are also busy during the day time but we usually do things in the evening for example have a dinner and play volleyball.</span><br />
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This morning I received an invitation from Mr. Thien to join with him and he’s family to Vung Tau beach this weekend and of course I will join with them. I’m looking forward to this trip. Maybe I can capture some awesome pictures for the next post.</span><br />
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Maybe next post will be more interesting to the people outside field of IT since this post was mainly related to my projects in here.</span><br />
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I must attach at least couple of pictures to this post otherwise this looks too boring.<br />
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<br />Markus Miettinenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00884028346228229475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7413281201382035528.post-24528990398133764742013-04-04T07:20:00.002-07:002013-04-05T02:14:25.369-07:00Exotic Vietnam<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I finally started writing the blog. At the beginning I
decided that I would write the blog while being in Vietnam but I found out that
the internet is working well and I can connect to my girlfriend, family and
friends easily so I don’t need to write a blog at all. But there is much more
people who is interested about my trip than people I know so that’s why I
decided to start writing this. Better late than never.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">First of all I would like to introduce you couple of
people I’m going to mention in my blog posts. Mr. Thien is like my “supervisor”
in here. He’s been helping me a lot with everything and he’s done all the
arrangements for me in here. Nga is a 4<sup>th </sup> year student in Nong Lam university and we
hang out a lot since he can speak English.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I arrived at Vietnam in 22.2.2013. It was 6 pm when I
arrived and weather was still very warm. When I left from Finland there was -15
C and snow all over. Student named Quock picked me up from airport and we
started our way to Nong Lam university guest house. When I arrived my room I
immediately got a new roommate, lizard. Lizards are normal in here but at the
beginning I was afraid of the lizards since it is not normal in Finland that
there are lizards walking inside the room. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Next morning Nga and Tan came to pick me up from my
room and we went took a tour in campus area. We looked around the campus area and
students introduced me the places where to eat and buy goods. While we walked
in campus I noticed that people are staring at me and whispering to each
others. I asked about that from my friends and they told that people are just
excited to see foreigner since there is not much (or at all) foreigners in this
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Everything is so different in here than in Finland,
food, people, weather and everything. I really like people in here, they are so
friendly and they are doing everything that I feel good in here. Also I think
people in here are extra polite to me since I’m a foreigner for example I went
by bus at and one guy gave me he’s seat to me since all the seats were taken. I
think the food is only thing that is not so different compared to Finland but of course in here people eat lots of rice and noodles. But
all the fruits and drinks are different. My favorite drinks are Sugar Can(made of sugar grass) and
Coconut shake(made of milk, ice and coconut). Weather is hot! Now after one
month I’m getting use to the weather but I think I have been sweating for one
month in a row by now :D But now my body is getting use to this weather and weather does not feel that hot anymore. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and get to know the place and the people in here. Second Sunday we went to downtown.
We visited at War Museum, Independence palace, Ben thanh market and Bitexo
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Nong Lam university invited me to go there with him. It was so beautiful
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to do was to participate the marketing of the Phan Thiet university. We went
couple of high schools near Phan Thiet and staff of Phan Thiet told about
university and I had a small speech at high schools. I don’t think people at
the country side have never seen a foreigner people since everybody was staring
at me and yelling to me. I felt like a rock star while being there :D Since
Phan Thiet is by the sea I was able to swim there. We went for a walk almost every
morning with my professor at the beach and sometimes we swam at the sea. Water
was cold at 6 am but at noon it is much warmer. Trip in Phan Thiet is getting
draws to an end and I have a final lunch there. I have tuna for a lunch. After
lunch I went to my room and then it started, I started vomiting and I had a
fever and a diarrhea. Thank god people are friendly in here so professors in
Phan Thiet helped me and I had some medicine from Mr. Thien. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Last weekend we went to Vung Tau beach, it is south of
Ho Chi Minh. I went there with my friends from the internship(more about the
internship below). It was very exotic experience. First of all we went there by
scooters, it took 3,5 hours to go there by scooter. When we arrived Vung Tau we
went for a swim, after 5 minutes of swimming I felt like something was burning my
leg and I looked at the water and I saw a lot of small jelly fishes. Night was
falling and I started to ask about the place where we are going to be over
night and they said that at the beach… I was shocked :D But it was interesting experience
to sleep at the beach under the sky. Even though I didn't sleep very well since
the sand was not the best mattress to sleep on. At the morning we went to
harbor and bought a lot of seafood like shrimps and squid. After eating we went
to Vung Tau city and then we started our way back to Ho Chi Minh City. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I have had some difficulties in here also like with
the ATM. I tried to withdraw money from ATM and the ATM took my credit card and
I had to pick it up from the bank. Mr. Thien saved me again, he borrowed me
some money so I could buy food and other goods that I need and he also helped
me to get my card back. It took a long time for my stomach get use to all the
bacteria in here but it is also my fault since I didn’t took any medicine for
that. Also I had some difficulties with English. Well actually I don’t have
problems but local students have. Level of English knowledge is not very good
in here. But I have couple of friends from my faculty who I can discuss with. I
must use body language to order food and some other things. At the beginning I
tried to study some Vietnamese but I discovered that the pronouncing is so much
different than for example in English or Finnish so I have not learned very
much Vietnamese while being here. And also I have a lots of activities related
to studies and the internship so I don’t think I have time to study Vietnamese.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When I arrived here I didn’t know anything about the
internship. Mr. Thien proposed to me that I should apply for the internship in
TMA solutions and I did. TMA accepted me for internship and I was very
excited!! Internship is great opportunity for me and now I have real experience
from IT and software production. We are doing application which uses
P2P-network to share files. Also I’m attending the project in my university. We
are developing a mistake chasing game which helps students to improve their
programming skills. My part in this project is to design UI and write the paper
about the project. I’m a bit afraid of the writing process since I haven’t been
writing any scientific papers even in Finnish and now I must write scientific
paper in English. Also I’m going to have a presentation about our project at
Koli Conference in November. I am really excited about this opportunity and this
will help me for my future studies and I hope after this project I have a
chance to participate many projects related to educational technologies and
Vietnam. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Yesterday 6 French exchange students came to guest house and we had a long chat. I'm really happy since now I have more friends in here and they all seems very friendly. Last night they invited me for a drink. They are going to be here for 3 months so I think I'm going to hang out a lot with them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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long so don’t be afraid. I’m going to update my blog once a week. Keep in
touch!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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