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 ^^