she was a student earning her way through university as a tour guide. On the back of her motor scooter, I got an insider’s back alley tour of Saigon ( and firm explanation why this is real name for city – not current communist one! ) Students are great because they’re not afraid to give you a political bent on things – like the monk Thich Quang Duc who burned himself to protest Southern Vietnam’s treatment of Buddhists- according to her, it was a set up by communist northern Vietnam to demonstrate democracy wasn’t working – complicated relations still exist between north and south.
