Communism?

These little kids are dancing to Backstreet Boys next to me. It's great. Also, Communism here in Vietnam is really interesting. There are these great propaganda posters everywhere and every morning around 6:30 AM this insanely loud announcement comes on. Our first morning in Hanoi Alice and I woke up in pain. We opened the window to our beautiful balcony and stared out the window. Some sort of horrible inspirational elevator music and a soothing female voice saying something in Vietnamese. And this message repeated itself at least 5 times. It would NOT stop. We stared out into the street. No one seemed fazed.

Later, we asked the hotel. Oh it's some message about health from the government. It comes on every morning. EVERY morning.