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-)
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