Globetrekker: Vietnam (0:45)

Globetrekker is a television series that highlights different countries or areas around the world. My middle school students watched the Vietnam video this morning. In Connecticut, seventh graders study Asia. This travelogue begins in the southern part of the country with Ho Chi Minh City. We experience life in the big city where bicycles out number cars one hundred to one. We are shown the fireworks in celebration of the TET festival. The host of the show, Justine Shapiro, then travels north to a seaside resort. After a day at the beach, Justine takes a train ride to the central part of Vietnam. After seeing some historical sights, she flies to Hanoi and takes a tour of the city. She then takes a bus ride to the northernmost part of  Vietnam, near the China boarder. She ends her journey with visting limestone caves and lagoons that have been made into fish farms. All my students, as well as the staff, were engaged in this travelogue. It was chock full of the sights and sounds of a country that has just recently been opened to us Americans.