My internship at Hanoi IEC offers me unexpectedly many different tasks, through which I did learn a lot in the past weeks in Vietnam. The most interesting fact is, that I get to know many companies — working in many different fields — and so I got to know many nice persons.

Last week, I got the chance to go on a business trip to Hai Phong (those who don’t know where this city is, please google for it ^^). There, I assisted the business group working in the field of environment (water supply and waste water handling and so on), my job was to translate German-Vietnamese. But through the translator job I got to know many important politicians from Hai Phong, they were really nice: always inviting us to lunch or dinner (you could say the German delegation got more scared of food as the days in Hai Phong increased ^^).

So you can see that an intern don’t always need to make coffee or copying. Internships can also be very interesting. Of course I also had to do lot’s of office jobs, like translating documents, but besides I also could go on meetings, working with Vietnamese students through my German and Math lessons and I also can do jobs with a big responsibility.

I think in the next days I can write more about my jobs outside the office as I’ll go on another business trip to Ho Chi Minh City ^^. See you again.

Anh Thu