It was my first week comin’ back to school after nearly two months of summer break. Just like many others, lots of feelings invaded me, and apparently, those are categorized into two types: excited to meet and hang out with friends, come back to normal student life, and the second one is regretful for not enjoying more during the holiday.
This summer, I got an interesting job as a journalist at the English section of VOV5. To be honest, it was great, but one thing I hated ‘bout it was that I couldn’t go traveling to anywhere with my friends or my family: they always chose weekdays to make out. Hmm. However, back to school means that I couldn’t go to work everyday any more. I had to trade-off between studying and working. Ah, another trade-off was that I dropped Business Communication to participate a course with UC students, simply ‘coz it’s so cool.
This semester I live in the dormitory D4, right in the campus. It took me lots of time to settle down, get on well with people, catch up with the life of a board student. I hope that I can do it well. And… why not?
Apart from ordinary major lectures, which were quite boring and non-informative at all, I also attended the first class of Vietnam society in transition course, which I think was the best-one-in-week. However, I got some difficulties understanding my American mates’ speaking: They were speaking “real” English, fast and with different accent and ways of expression, which was quite… unfamiliar to me. ^^ Hmm, hope that it’s gonna be ok, sooner or later.
About Rigg’s textbook, there are several points about Vietnam’s development stages that I do not agree with. The author criticized lots ‘bout our measures and strategies on the path to development. Though those are all extracted or quoted from previous factual reports/documents, they’re still different from what I’ve learnt before at school or from my parents. Is it the time I had to find the truth ‘bout what I’ve known? Not sure. Hmm. Hope the subject could answer that itself.
UCHANU students had a chance to visit Friendship Village in a suburban area of Hanoi on Friday. It was my first time visiting a kind of place like that though I used to carry out a report ‘bout that village before for VOV5. Just like others, I found the visit great and meaningful. Friendship Village is the result of the co-operation among Vietnam and some other countries, which takes care and gives medical treatments to war veterans and children suffering from agent orange/dioxin. We came to the village when children were studying in different classes, which are not grouped by age but their abilities. There were a number of children who couldn’t understand a word, some had problems with hearing and speaking, others had very limited mental understanding. Many kids even couldn’t participate any kind of class due to their serious health condition. Playing, speaking with them, attending their classes made me quite tired (in fact, I was not feeling fine that day.) However, those made me think a lot about life on the way home. It was a pity that I couldn’t join “Snail party” in the evening and the next day’s “Cha nhai + Bia hoi” ‘coz my house was under construction and I had to get back home to help my parents.
Well, that’s all. And the week was quite a good starting one, right?
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