It's nearly time for TET here in Vietnam which is their big national holiday where we get 5 days off work!!
At Christmas in England we decorate trees and here they do the same thing but a little differently. You can get trees with lots of yellow flowers and also you can get trees with lucky money envelopes. As shown in my pictures.
When its new year next week people give each other lucky money in these nicely decorated red envelopes to mark the occasion. They are very pretty. As you can see above this is a tree that has been put in the entrance to our University gym. There is also a fake watermelon under the tree. This is eaten at TET as red is a symbol of good luck, which also explains why the envelopes are red.
I've included a couple of close up pictures of the envelopes and as you can see HSBC have hijacked the occasion using it for some cheap publicity by printing their lovely logo on them as so often happens these days by companies for annual events.
You can see on the envelopes above the words 'Chuc Mung Nam Moi' which means 'happy new year' in Vietnamese.
I'll try and get some pictures and videos of other trees and lights around the city in the next few days. At the moment the city centre has some great lights that would rival Regent street at Christmas time in London.
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