A total of 30 students from the Isle of Wight Education Federation are preparing to depart for Vietnam on a once-in-a-lifetime history trip next week.
Students from both Carisbrooke and Medina colleges, along with the Island VI Form, will be spending 10 days travelling from North Vietnam to the south of the country via key locations in the central regions.
Trip leader and Mandarin teacher Joe Briscoe said:
“To complement their learning in the classroom, students will actually be able to live and breathe the places they’ve previously only studied. We will be exploring key locations from the Vietnam War that they’ve only read about in books, but just as importantly, each of them will find themselves immersed in a culture, a climate and a world that is very different to anything they’ve experienced before.”
Students will first visit the capital Hanoi along with exploring the DMZ, the cities of Hue and Hoi An, the Mekong river delta and finishing their trip in Saigon.
The history of oppressive communist regimes in the region is well-enough understood. But of course that won’t be the history they’ll be taught in Vietnam.