Hello, the club I decided to go to this Thursday was VSA. VSA Also known as Vietnamese Student Association, they are very friendly, informative, and warm people. You do not need to be Viet in order to join, in matter of fact majority of the people in the club isn’t even Viet. The workshop they had was called “DIY Summer rolls and language class” aka “Journey to Vietnam with VSA”. It was a fun experience I learned how to make summer rolls and how to order some common food in viet. Some small catch phrases you can “impress” your waiters when ordering. What was cool and helpful, was they provided all the ingredients and supplies for us.
What wasn’t cool is since I am a germophob I hate that they didn’t ask us to wash our hands before we started the process of making the summer rolls. The whole time I was thinking of all the germs surrounding my poorly created summer roll. You might be wondering how do you make a summer roll. Well the ingredients are and not limited to: rice paper, vermicelli, lettuce, and some form of meat(which they had pork and shrimp). They provided sauce which was a combination of sesame oil and peanut sauce.
I believe this event was not a waste of my time, it was very fun and it was interesting to learn how to make something new and common viet food phrases. They introduced us to simple viet words such as thank you and your welcome. It was interesting to know that when you are saying thank you to people, depending who you are saying it to you add another word. If you saying it to an uncle you’ll say cam on chu. They taught us simple phrases for food and the pronunciations, it was funny how Ben and another club member was teaching us how to pronounce it properly. They were funny and made jokes along the way.
I am very excited that I gone, because I didn’t go alone rather I went with a group of friends and with my group of friends we teamed up on a game of matching Viet words we have learned to pictures. I’ll admit we kind of cheated but still legal, my friend was actually half Vietnamese, but in defense he doesn’t speak Vietnamese but speaks Chao Zhou. We were first finish and first to match it and get everything correct. Which we all won Baked by Melissa cupcakes. I was happy because I’ve never tried Baked by Melissa Cupcakes before.
I am happy to have went to this club and meet some great people like James, Ruthie, Ben, and other members. They are really nice and help me get to know more about the club. I am looking forward to going to more events and learn more about Vietnamese culture.