Foreign students learn about Tet preparations in Mekong Delta
As Tet is only
three days away, the foreign students who recently paid a visit to a city in the Mekong Delta probably still cannot forget what they saw and did there when
locals prepared for their biggest festival in a year.
A Ho Chi Minh City-based Vietnamese language school organized a field trip earlier this month to Sa Dec City in Dong Thap Province to provide about 20 international students with an opportunity to both improve their Vietnamese and have first-hand experiences with how Vietnamese people get ready for Tet, or the Lunar New Year.
Traditionally Tet begins on the first day of the lunar year (coinciding with January 31 this year) and lasts till at least the third day but Vietnamese normally start preparing for and celebrate it days before and after the occasion.
