Today (March 8th) is International Women's Day. While I had never heard of it until going to Vietnam, it is supposedly an international day celebrating women. It's pretty big here!!! I got flowers and cards at work, along with 200,000 VND (around $10 cash) from the Board of Directors. Then, I went to dinner and all the ladies got 1 free drink of their choice. After dinner, my friends and I went to the mall. Our taxi driver told us, in broken English, "happy woman day." At the mall, there were Women's Day sales everywhere. We saw a movie and had a random Vietnamese man at the concession line let us go ahead of him "because it is Women's Day!" Not bad... why don't we celebrate this in Canada?!
True...this day set aside to honour women is fairly new since I never remember it being a big deal here...at least in my neck of the woods! How lovely that you are so honoured in Vietnam!
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