The Weekend in Business Trip

The first day in Da Nang was Friday, and I have to take over the client support tasks from my colleague. We had sent the messages last day which informed me that I was supposed to meet in the lobby this morning. We would take the commute van from hotel to the corporation. It was the very special experience which we had been with surrounded Japanese members for work. It took approximately 20 minutes for the plant and the routine passed through the beautiful beach. We had arrived earlier than the beginning of work time. I followed the instructions every moment including waiting in the lounge and made the simple arrangement. For a while, after the work time, I departed for the manufacturing line and inspected the machine that I would be supposed to support. The factory is so large that I couldn’t remember the direction in the building. There are two servo presses on the line with the problem happened several days ago. Unfortunately, we still couldn’t ensure the root cause of these problems when we were still in the office. Thus, we had made the risky bet that we would modify the machine into two systems, one is the standard type, and another is charge of customized functions. My colleague had finished the modification for one of them last day. Accordingly, this day, in the schedule, we had to modify the second one together and handover the remained tasks.

This was not the first time I work with the foreign members, but this time, in the beginning, we exactly encountered the serious communication problems. Not only the Japanese, the large amount of Vietnamese also in the group to cooperate with. However, three of us had to communicate with two translators and it led to the bad efficiency. What the worse was that due to the manufacturing schedule, the machine couldn’t stop to allow us make the modification. As a result, these works had to push off to the next work day which might make me under the heavier pressure. Our available works had been done, so we left earlier by ourselves. It was the first free time in Da Nang. I had started to make the plan, and then I decided to take the crab car to the nearest beach. The beaches in Southeast Asia are different from Taiwan. It is easy to find the long white beach with the hotels here. Thank to the warm weather, although it was the October, it was still available for people to play in the ocean. In the evening, I walked back to the downtown and ate in the Korean restaurant randomly. Then, my colleague invited me to take a sightseeing boat along the river surrounded with the beautiful hotel and it was also the last day for him in Vietnam. From tomorrow on, there would be no any Taiwanese in Da Nang, so I have to deal with anything by myself.

 The next two days were the weekend that I would be totally free in Da Nang. Although, there was no sufficient time, I still really wanted to make the detailed plan. Thus, I determined to visit two viewpoints, one was the Hội An and another was the Bana Hill. Furthermore, I would be able to visit remained viewpoints in downtown in the trivial period. Hội An is the old town famous for the historical building mixed with the diversified style. It is located approximately 40 kilometers from the Danang, so I had to take the bus there which was also the special experience for me. The information of the bus is clear on the Internet, but there were several distinct culture and regulation from what is in Taiwan. There was the ticket seller on bus, and no air conditioner at all. Fortunately, I won’t encounter any difficulties during the transferred process. Hội An was so famous that there were already crowded people in the morning. The area is not too large, so we could look all around on foot. It was extremely suitable for capturing the photos. On the other hand, vast amounts of café in the small town are famously although I was not interested in. Eventually, after finished the lunch, I would go back to Danang and took the nap in the hotel. The night view in Hội An is also beautiful and famous, but the last bus would be ended in the 17:30. The remained time in the afternoon and evening, I went to the Dragon Bridge, department store, train station and hypermarket in the DaNang.

On the Sunday, visiting the Ba Na Hill was the only plan on the schedule. The traffic was the biggest problem and finally I bought the suite ticket including the commute and ticket on the Internet platform. It was risky due to shortage of contact method. Fortunately, we had merely used the Line for simple communication to solve and ensure any problems. Ba Na Hill is the most famous viewpoint in DaNang because there is the golden bridge which is amazing for taking picture. It is located on the mountain, so we had to take the cable car there which was also the longest cable car I had even taken. The first area when I arrived was the French village. It surrounded the castles and decorated the European style. However, I went to the golden bridge and took the pictures in advance. Then, I went to play the special ride which is the roller coaster with the speed control. Thus, after finishing the most things what I wanted to do, I would be able to hang around the park leisurely until the commute van to pick us. Except the French village, there were also the different types of area and even the indoor play area in the park. We didn’t have enough time, so I just look randomly in the left time. This day was really exhausted, and I also have to go to work next day.