Sorry anyone who have kept reading this blog since the beginning :( really, i'm sorry.
Since the Gặt Lúa event, I'm so busy with the workload at school, tests start to fall like stars :(( And I still, keep writing stuffs I feel about how each week passed by and what I learnt. But I just didn't post it up to the internet. I made a folder in my PC and keep writing as a real diary using WinWord. My internet access have some trouble at times and I can't control myself to concentrate on only one thing when i'm online hahaha So to concentrate writing stuffs I experienced on the week, I just noted them down on a Word file hehe and intended to post it here whenever I'm free as long as it's before the end of the class. But it's such a mess now cuz I made each day a file but not in oder of time TT So now when I post all here I post them in wrong order :( and some of the words were lost due to some error that i can't understnad >< >< hichic later, when I'm done with the presentation draft to be due next Monday and homework and readings at Hanu, I'd come back here and do sth with this mess! So many piece of writing haven't been posted yet :( Can't take it >< Can't wait to upload also pictures I took to better illustrate for u guysssssss yeah!
See you,
please understand :)
Love hihi
Thanh.
Thứ Năm, 26 tháng 11, 2009
entry for the last field trip
The week began with a terrible news!!! I had to take HCM’s ideology since this week! I love HCM so much but I’m already having so many things wondering on my mind about the university system we are working in VN desired to be partly answered by the seminar on this Monday and ACCIDENTALLY the HCM’s ideology class started on the exactly same day huhuhu what a real pity………
Missed the seminar, I had to take HCM ideology class, basically it’s so alike to all history stuffs that I already learnt in schools that I felt asleep huhu but the teacher does not let anyone in class sleep at all. She spoke really loudly so that hardly anyone can have a good sleep.
These days I’ve been so busy with all the studying stuffs at school. Teachers are giving tests like every day and I hate tests >< I hate Bank MNG too UC have just come back from the South and Phat invites me to the Bowling! How nice! I’d love to hichic But as I said, Bank management is in test period and UC guys intended to go bowling on the very night right before my test hichic I had to cancel hanging out with them one more time… so sad, I’ve never tried bowling before and we had so little time spend together…
This week is about the factory life in Vietnam. We had 40 pages of readings and a field trip of a WHOLE day to 2 factories around Hanoi area. I didn’t know this would be our last field trip and the class that day is second to last!!!! I can’t believe it hichic Seriously it’s so sad now, when I started to get quite close to many of UC guys… it’s kinda late…
The reading in the text book has a thing that amazes me really much! I thought I know how systems work in Vietnam but as the course goes by, really I feel like I didn’t know anything at all. There’s a pie chart showing how the selling price of a shirt is divided into costs of each process. Out of $45 selling price in the US, only $0.75 is paid for the labor… I didn’t believe in my eyes when I looked at that chart. How Vietnamese and many other Third World countries’ women’s labor is undervalued so much. Can we call it EXPLOIT??? Thinking of how the value of the shirt is distributed among factors of producing it, I feel like we’d better make clothes for Vietnamese market rather than receiving orders from the rich countries. But in a second thought, I realized that the money they gain from exporting is way too much higher than the sad fact that they are kinda being exploited.
Missed the seminar, I had to take HCM ideology class, basically it’s so alike to all history stuffs that I already learnt in schools that I felt asleep huhu but the teacher does not let anyone in class sleep at all. She spoke really loudly so that hardly anyone can have a good sleep.
These days I’ve been so busy with all the studying stuffs at school. Teachers are giving tests like every day and I hate tests >< I hate Bank MNG too UC have just come back from the South and Phat invites me to the Bowling! How nice! I’d love to hichic But as I said, Bank management is in test period and UC guys intended to go bowling on the very night right before my test hichic I had to cancel hanging out with them one more time… so sad, I’ve never tried bowling before and we had so little time spend together…
This week is about the factory life in Vietnam. We had 40 pages of readings and a field trip of a WHOLE day to 2 factories around Hanoi area. I didn’t know this would be our last field trip and the class that day is second to last!!!! I can’t believe it hichic Seriously it’s so sad now, when I started to get quite close to many of UC guys… it’s kinda late…
The reading in the text book has a thing that amazes me really much! I thought I know how systems work in Vietnam but as the course goes by, really I feel like I didn’t know anything at all. There’s a pie chart showing how the selling price of a shirt is divided into costs of each process. Out of $45 selling price in the US, only $0.75 is paid for the labor… I didn’t believe in my eyes when I looked at that chart. How Vietnamese and many other Third World countries’ women’s labor is undervalued so much. Can we call it EXPLOIT??? Thinking of how the value of the shirt is distributed among factors of producing it, I feel like we’d better make clothes for Vietnamese market rather than receiving orders from the rich countries. But in a second thought, I realized that the money they gain from exporting is way too much higher than the sad fact that they are kinda being exploited.
entry for the week of Nov 2 :D An important week :D
Today is an important day!
This week UC guys are away for the Southern trip. What a blast! I love to come to the South too. If I had big money, one of my dreams is to come to the huge fruit gardens and floating market in the South. How lucky UC guys are :(
No class but this week is still very important to our PROJECT! Finally, after so long long long delay and waiting for approval of the SJ director, we will start the project!!! Finally :) I’m so happy. But sadly, all UC members are in the South and all Hanu boys are busy for the Asian Indoor Games III event hichic Only me and 2 other girls left will be available to conduct it this Sunday.
Today, Sunday November 8, 2009 we will start with the first Peace Culture class.
Haha I’ve just come back! How’s the project going today? U might ask that haha Funnily, only 6/23 official students + 1 kid that I taught last year but does not belong to SJ anymore came to the class WITH my effort of going directly to some of the kids’ houses in the Fisher Village to call them to class >< So much disappointed!!! I wanted it to be good since the start then I asked the Hanu girls to meet at 1.30pm, but even the kids come earlier than them hichic
The class is supposed to start at 2. But it took half an hour for me to go calling them to class, then only til 2.45pm can we start. This is my first time leading such a class and I know it should be serious enough to make them understand the significance of what they would be taught here. However, being too tough would make it a boring and not absorbable for small kids. Haizzz Finally I had to start. 3 of us have to nearly fight with them to settle the class down hichic They hardly focus and to stay in one place only was such a so damn difficult task for them hahaha SO I thought of one game that we played last year that really worked in this situation to present partly the RESPECT content of today’s class: stay silent for only 2 minutes. hahaha at first some old kids I taught last year sighed boring but since it’s a real issue for them to stay silent for a few minutes, it’s still interesting haha 3 out of 7 players were dead and being punished by singing and dancing (as Manh suggested me that haha). 2 girls were singing the kids’ song: One duck, and I thought Manh was going to do some soft dance (múa), then he suddenly jumped in and do break dance hahaha so funny and passionate Oohhh we all had fun at that time. Then I had to head them back to the main topic. I told them the meaning of the game, how 3 of them had disrespect the rule of the game. Then we stared a discussion and I tried to stick to the main topic while the kids talk when we waited for the preparation of another small game for them. I loved to listen to the kids. At first, it’s kinda awkward and they were being so unserious, then as time passed by we got more familiar and they were really frank to us. I asked them very simple questions, just kind of to care about the stuffs teachers would never be asked before like what color do you like and what scared you most. The aim of all these questions is to teach kids not to make fun of others’ ideas, respect each other’s opinion.
How funny, they tell us a kind of new version of kids’ rhyme about color:
Màu vàng là nàng công chúa, lấy cái búa đập vào đầu hahaha
Yellow is a princess, originally it should stop here but they added: who hit her head by an axe LOL see, I told ya, they’re really violent-oriented hahahaha
I listened carefully. And basically it’s kinda hard for anyone not to listen to such lovely voices and ideas. Actually, disregarding all nuisances and disobedient, they are just small kids needing love and care. The result of the talk bring me something to think about. Most girls loved pink, the boy loved black – the color of demons as he told us. 5/7 kids were scared of whom??? His/her teacher hahaha so damn funny! They even told me their successful plan to meet and hit the teacher that they hated at school in the bustop OMG I can’t believe it!!!! But really, they did :-s So scary, I told myself I must not let them hate me for any seconds hahahahaha And so we talked about the death since one of them said she’s only afraid of the death. I’m so agreed with her! I asked a few more but I hardly remembered now. It brought me so much thoughts though. Then we divided the class into 2 groups and provided them with 8 pictures. They should categorize which is the action showing the respect and which is disrespect, then telling the whole class the reason why they chose the picture. It worked. They really paid some thoughts there. It’s such a bless! Or else my class was more of a mess then a class. To encourage them to being more competitive and tried harder in thinking, I announced a prize of ice-creams for those who won! Haha they showed much more efforts and wishes to win hahaha I knew them b-)
This week UC guys are away for the Southern trip. What a blast! I love to come to the South too. If I had big money, one of my dreams is to come to the huge fruit gardens and floating market in the South. How lucky UC guys are :(
No class but this week is still very important to our PROJECT! Finally, after so long long long delay and waiting for approval of the SJ director, we will start the project!!! Finally :) I’m so happy. But sadly, all UC members are in the South and all Hanu boys are busy for the Asian Indoor Games III event hichic Only me and 2 other girls left will be available to conduct it this Sunday.
Today, Sunday November 8, 2009 we will start with the first Peace Culture class.
Haha I’ve just come back! How’s the project going today? U might ask that haha Funnily, only 6/23 official students + 1 kid that I taught last year but does not belong to SJ anymore came to the class WITH my effort of going directly to some of the kids’ houses in the Fisher Village to call them to class >< So much disappointed!!! I wanted it to be good since the start then I asked the Hanu girls to meet at 1.30pm, but even the kids come earlier than them hichic
The class is supposed to start at 2. But it took half an hour for me to go calling them to class, then only til 2.45pm can we start. This is my first time leading such a class and I know it should be serious enough to make them understand the significance of what they would be taught here. However, being too tough would make it a boring and not absorbable for small kids. Haizzz Finally I had to start. 3 of us have to nearly fight with them to settle the class down hichic They hardly focus and to stay in one place only was such a so damn difficult task for them hahaha SO I thought of one game that we played last year that really worked in this situation to present partly the RESPECT content of today’s class: stay silent for only 2 minutes. hahaha at first some old kids I taught last year sighed boring but since it’s a real issue for them to stay silent for a few minutes, it’s still interesting haha 3 out of 7 players were dead and being punished by singing and dancing (as Manh suggested me that haha). 2 girls were singing the kids’ song: One duck, and I thought Manh was going to do some soft dance (múa), then he suddenly jumped in and do break dance hahaha so funny and passionate Oohhh we all had fun at that time. Then I had to head them back to the main topic. I told them the meaning of the game, how 3 of them had disrespect the rule of the game. Then we stared a discussion and I tried to stick to the main topic while the kids talk when we waited for the preparation of another small game for them. I loved to listen to the kids. At first, it’s kinda awkward and they were being so unserious, then as time passed by we got more familiar and they were really frank to us. I asked them very simple questions, just kind of to care about the stuffs teachers would never be asked before like what color do you like and what scared you most. The aim of all these questions is to teach kids not to make fun of others’ ideas, respect each other’s opinion.
How funny, they tell us a kind of new version of kids’ rhyme about color:
Màu vàng là nàng công chúa, lấy cái búa đập vào đầu hahaha
Yellow is a princess, originally it should stop here but they added: who hit her head by an axe LOL see, I told ya, they’re really violent-oriented hahahaha
I listened carefully. And basically it’s kinda hard for anyone not to listen to such lovely voices and ideas. Actually, disregarding all nuisances and disobedient, they are just small kids needing love and care. The result of the talk bring me something to think about. Most girls loved pink, the boy loved black – the color of demons as he told us. 5/7 kids were scared of whom??? His/her teacher hahaha so damn funny! They even told me their successful plan to meet and hit the teacher that they hated at school in the bustop OMG I can’t believe it!!!! But really, they did :-s So scary, I told myself I must not let them hate me for any seconds hahahahaha And so we talked about the death since one of them said she’s only afraid of the death. I’m so agreed with her! I asked a few more but I hardly remembered now. It brought me so much thoughts though. Then we divided the class into 2 groups and provided them with 8 pictures. They should categorize which is the action showing the respect and which is disrespect, then telling the whole class the reason why they chose the picture. It worked. They really paid some thoughts there. It’s such a bless! Or else my class was more of a mess then a class. To encourage them to being more competitive and tried harder in thinking, I announced a prize of ice-creams for those who won! Haha they showed much more efforts and wishes to win hahaha I knew them b-)
Thứ Tư, 30 tháng 9, 2009
Quê mùa 09 collection
me in my grandmother's Nón ^^
my grandmom and her daughter-in-law (i.e. my mommy ^^)This entry I'd be dedicating to my beloved Quê and the life in this rural area :X
it's a rural area beside the Red River, in old Hatay province (the extended Hanoi now)
the road home...
the main earnings from crops are here!!! Bananas everywhere in the garden hô hô
a hard rain this summer took away a large area of ngói in the roof
view from outside to the kitchen
inside the kitchen
Bếp củi (her old fire wood... use til now... when I was a kid, I loved to come inside the kitchen and sit next to the fire until the body feel the very deep warmth and my face skin got cracked a lil LOL)
many old ladies like this one (around 70s) are on the road back to their home from the rice paddle fieldamazingly...
Luckily I come there right at the time of harvesting. All the paddy fields filled with the yellow color ^^
Interestingly, I wrote this entry half month ago but now I'm still finishing it hahaand some days ago Gerard've told us about the trip to experience the VILLAGE life and harvesting! So funny I rooted from a typical village where life mainly depends on corn and rice, and now I'm going to experience the work that my grand grand father, my grand father and my father did years long to earn their living... It would be very hard, I know... but it's worth experiencing! And I believe even I will be living in this city for another 100 years, I'd not have much chance (~0%) of trying doing this once :D I'm so looking forward to it!!! And for UC or any VNese guys who have never know what it may look like when the whole "Village" in the harvesting season, here are some of the pictures I took in the trip back to my QUê half month ago ^^
P.S: This course is getting much much worthy to take!!!!
Thứ Sáu, 25 tháng 9, 2009
the week without UC
This week all UC mem go to the central of Vietnam for a great field trip. It's amazing that they'd be visiting the area of Tây Nguyên (Central Highland) where I've never had a chance to experience. The place is among the most special places of the country, in many senses. One day, I'd definitely be there!!! And especially after we've studied about last year about all the coffee growing things, I do have a desire to see the place with my own eyes. Last week we have 3 articles to discuss on. And this is definitely one of the most impressive week so far I think, in aspect of the content of the articles and all the ideas about it. They raised in me so many questions and confusion, and for a moment, I was quite lost. But now I know what I know is right, and everything has two sides, we gotta trade off to get to the goal we expect to be better. And what I learnt in the class seriously is to read more, experience more and be more open to all possible theory/opinion. And to be really objective in viewing things is way too difficult. We always have a tendency towards something that is quite bias.
This week is nice! First of all: No UC class in Thursday hahaha If you know how much studying I had to take every Thursday, you'll understand. Every Thursday I have class from 7am til 7pm huhu no break except for lunch!!!!! How craziiii hichic And this Thursday afternoon I stayed at home and edited photos for the whole afternoon haha how relaxing... no reading and no class. Just wondering what folks are doing in the far Central land... It would be amazing! The land of poor and dust but kinda mysterious to me ^^
The week started with my family's visit to my father's QUÊ (i.e. hometown for closest meaning but still not yet precise). It's amazing trip and for the first time after so many years we were there exactly on the days of rice harvest! The color of yellow spread all over the fields on my way back to my QUÊ. I'd write another entry dedicating only for that trip with amazing pictures of that beloved place, poor but filled with love and most importantly is it's experiencing very much development, which makes it relevant to this blog hahaha
Then, on Thursday, I was caught (again! for god's sake hichic the last time was only 2 weeks ago in Tràng Tiền/ Bờ Hồ for a very stupid mistake huhu) by THE SAME traffic police officer haha It's so ridiculous! And yet very much fun and thankful yes! Since I was so surprised at that coincidence and couldn't help laughing right on the spot, he realized me and let me go hahaha or else I'd be fined with (I guess at least) VND 100,000 or more since I don't have the lisence (I'm so lazy haha). It's Duyên! I believe so! Talking about Duyên, I don't know if there's any English word relevant to that Vietnamese word but it's among my most favorite Vietnamese words. As said in Budism theories, we'd be in this life is a Duyên, and everything in this world doesn't happen for no reasons. There're always some Duyên that causes all those things to be where it be.
Friday, rain and wetness, my motobike broke in the middle of a downtown street. 3 hours I had to stand on the street waiting for it to be fixed. Luckily, I had my girl friend there with me. When it's the very bad situation, having a friend there being by my side would make me much stronger and time flies haha of course! Girl talk b-)
Hanoi streets, I loved them. For me, this week marked the new season, Hanoi is in autumn. Today I realized the first Bàng tree wholy in color bronze brown and reddish... how beautiful!!!! The winter is coming soon. And my Birthday, yeah!!! Next week!!! YoYo!!! so much excited!
P.S: ahh, I forgot, when UC guys away for the Central trip, I met up with the Volunteers I collected in the school. They'd be working with us in this whole project so please be kind and coordinating, to me haha since I'm the only girl in the group huhu poor me huhu I'd be asking some other girls, but this year is quite a tough year for all of the 4th year students, I can't ask them easily to do voluntary stuffs. I collected 4 boys, two from Computer Science faculty and two from the International Relations. They're quite eager to see you guys and the kids too! Last week 4 of us met Lan, the SJ coordinator of Youth House project for the kids around Long Biên bridge. It's great that she still recognised me though complained on how much weight I have been gaining huhu And she agreed on our ideas for the project! But she needs a formal paper for detailed information of the project and we decided to contact her later for that. She also helped us out with a French name for potential interest to raise fund for this project. We expected this would go well! And our work for next week would be:
1. Meet with the kids for a number of purposes ^^ ( I already schedule to meet them with the guys from Hanu this Tuesday noon, since UC hasn't come back yet, we'll arrange some other day later for us all)
2. Meeting of all members of the project
3. UC mem to be taught to feel more familiar with the soccer thing haha
4. The proposal for the project
5. Contact the possible fund $$ real difficult hichic
6. Meet with Lan again for more specific plan of the start date of project ^^
This week is nice! First of all: No UC class in Thursday hahaha If you know how much studying I had to take every Thursday, you'll understand. Every Thursday I have class from 7am til 7pm huhu no break except for lunch!!!!! How craziiii hichic And this Thursday afternoon I stayed at home and edited photos for the whole afternoon haha how relaxing... no reading and no class. Just wondering what folks are doing in the far Central land... It would be amazing! The land of poor and dust but kinda mysterious to me ^^
The week started with my family's visit to my father's QUÊ (i.e. hometown for closest meaning but still not yet precise). It's amazing trip and for the first time after so many years we were there exactly on the days of rice harvest! The color of yellow spread all over the fields on my way back to my QUÊ. I'd write another entry dedicating only for that trip with amazing pictures of that beloved place, poor but filled with love and most importantly is it's experiencing very much development, which makes it relevant to this blog hahaha
Then, on Thursday, I was caught (again! for god's sake hichic the last time was only 2 weeks ago in Tràng Tiền/ Bờ Hồ for a very stupid mistake huhu) by THE SAME traffic police officer haha It's so ridiculous! And yet very much fun and thankful yes! Since I was so surprised at that coincidence and couldn't help laughing right on the spot, he realized me and let me go hahaha or else I'd be fined with (I guess at least) VND 100,000 or more since I don't have the lisence (I'm so lazy haha). It's Duyên! I believe so! Talking about Duyên, I don't know if there's any English word relevant to that Vietnamese word but it's among my most favorite Vietnamese words. As said in Budism theories, we'd be in this life is a Duyên, and everything in this world doesn't happen for no reasons. There're always some Duyên that causes all those things to be where it be.
Friday, rain and wetness, my motobike broke in the middle of a downtown street. 3 hours I had to stand on the street waiting for it to be fixed. Luckily, I had my girl friend there with me. When it's the very bad situation, having a friend there being by my side would make me much stronger and time flies haha of course! Girl talk b-)
Hanoi streets, I loved them. For me, this week marked the new season, Hanoi is in autumn. Today I realized the first Bàng tree wholy in color bronze brown and reddish... how beautiful!!!! The winter is coming soon. And my Birthday, yeah!!! Next week!!! YoYo!!! so much excited!
P.S: ahh, I forgot, when UC guys away for the Central trip, I met up with the Volunteers I collected in the school. They'd be working with us in this whole project so please be kind and coordinating, to me haha since I'm the only girl in the group huhu poor me huhu I'd be asking some other girls, but this year is quite a tough year for all of the 4th year students, I can't ask them easily to do voluntary stuffs. I collected 4 boys, two from Computer Science faculty and two from the International Relations. They're quite eager to see you guys and the kids too! Last week 4 of us met Lan, the SJ coordinator of Youth House project for the kids around Long Biên bridge. It's great that she still recognised me though complained on how much weight I have been gaining huhu And she agreed on our ideas for the project! But she needs a formal paper for detailed information of the project and we decided to contact her later for that. She also helped us out with a French name for potential interest to raise fund for this project. We expected this would go well! And our work for next week would be:
1. Meet with the kids for a number of purposes ^^ ( I already schedule to meet them with the guys from Hanu this Tuesday noon, since UC hasn't come back yet, we'll arrange some other day later for us all)
2. Meeting of all members of the project
3. UC mem to be taught to feel more familiar with the soccer thing haha
4. The proposal for the project
5. Contact the possible fund $$ real difficult hichic
6. Meet with Lan again for more specific plan of the start date of project ^^
Thứ Năm, 17 tháng 9, 2009
for today
I've been thinking a lot since yesterday, basically since I took this UC course. I'm kind of in a middle of so much confusion, disbelief and mixture of pessimism and optimism, and kind of a lost feeling, don't know who to trust what to trust, don't know what should I be thinking now and what should I be doing in the next some years or maybe this whole life to fulfill what really means the right! I have poor expression of my thinking in English then please understand whatever I wrote in a broad sense?? no, uhmm.. open sense? :)) haha LOL forget it.
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