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Lazy Sunday Morning - 클래지콰이

I am at home now with my family, enjoying a lazy Sunday. Recently, I was told to write my own autobiography as weekly assignment, and there have to be a total of 35 pages of text by the end of the semester. Oh.

I used to keep a diary, long time ago, not very well-written I’m afraid :)). I don’t write much so it’d be good practice to write autobiography. Moreover, as I grow older, I find that I lose memories of special events, objects, people, etc. and I want this to not only help me with my identity, but also with my memories. Thank you Professor :D. Still, the hardest part is definitely starting.

Lately I was in such a bustle, birthday parties, highschool reunion, etc. =)). Meeting with the UC team was great, everybody is nice. Some speaks Vietnamese surprisingly very well, I was so impressed. I wish I have a photo of UC & HANU to post but I don’t. I love to tell a story with photos so I will talk about my latest trip. Last Sunday I went to Thien Son - Suoi Nga, a famous tourist site just 2 hours traveling by bus far from the centre of Hanoi. Located on the eastern side of the Ba Vi mountain range in Ha Tay Province, this ecotourism site replaces the noisy and dusty atmosphere of the city with the cool and fresh air of undulating mountains and forests. Thien Son - Suoi Nga is also surrounded by the historical legend of the competition between Son Tinh (Mountain Genie) and Thuy Tinh (Water Genie) to become the King Hung's son-in-law.

Thien Son is divided into three parts including Ha Son (lower), Trung Son (middle), and Ngoan Son (upper) mountains. However, since I was in a training tour, I was not allowed to go far from Ha Son. Still, the trip was great as Ha Son has the most poetic landscape with Tam Cap waterfall and many beautiful streams.



Along with the fascinating landscape, the diversified ecosystem of Thien Son and Suoi Nga amused me. Here, one can learn about the rare and valuable plants of the Ba Vi National Park thanks to name-tags on the tree-trunks.

What is distinctive about the trip is that I was with my volunteer team (we are working on food safety in HANU’s area, you can check this link www.hangquansach.org for further details and vote for your favorite restaurant in HANU). During the day, we had two training sections with Tam Viet Group, the leading organization in educating leadership skills, team work and organization skills in Vietnam. I did learn a lot, thank you so much Tam Viet, and Action for the City as well.

It was also quite coincident about the funny girl I met on the trip, who turned out to be my classmate in UC program. Does any one recognize her? (note: she was borrowing my Chinese fan :D)

This is my volunteer team on the trip, about 30 people, and teachers from Tam Viet. Our uniform is designed by me ;))

A super cute Chinese dog I saw on the way.

Starting from tomorrow, we will send you, HANUers and UCers in HANU ;)) , some cards to cast your vote. Be sure to involve :X

Cheers.

P/S: As I have mentioned above, I'm practicing. So I would be very pleased to have you corrected my grammar, word choice, etc. Thanks a bunch!