Whirlwind Hoi An

Ok, first of all - Hoi An is a real place and NOT my version of the more famous Vietnamese city, Hanoi. My friend Ave asked me if I was kidding or confused when I was telling him about my Hoi An trip, "Ahh, Hanna, ako naman pupunta sa Kok-Bang." Well.. haha.

Upon our arrival, however-- I started getting confused because this might be a mixed up city after all! Check out the welcome sign for our team:
Sheesh! Maling-malina talaga! Hahaha! The sign guy noticed our laughter and was too shy to show his face :-)

Our huge global office is currently under massive reorganization and the management saw it fit to keep the support team in the loop. The "support team" is this layer of our office which provides administrative and technical support to all the finance and whatever expert bosses that we have. In simpler terms, we are the secretaries, IT support, program/ technical/ executive assistants, office administrators, staff writers, etc, etc. As some of our primaries from Washington DC put it, "the people who do the real work" -- and that our bosses probably missed all of us because all of East Asia support staff were virtually unreachable that week.

I regret that I may be unable to give you a "taste of Hoi An". As stated in a previous blog entry, we hardly had time to explore the city. During the time when we were given a choice between go relax and do community service, my team chose the latter (which, by the way - I don't regret!). And during the time that I was excused from some activities, I was just so dizzy to care!

Overall, it was a fun, tiring, whirlwind week. It was sort of like a sneak preview to an award winning film that I will never get to watch. Let me share with you the best parts ...

to be continued....