As of today, I am officially done with the quarter and all is left are Final exams….I have 1 final exam Dec 4th..1 Dec 8th, 1 on Dec 9th, and the last one on Dec. 10th. ..Until then though…I have finished the petty work that is in the way of cramming for my exams, whooey! [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘volunteer’
14, October 2008
Smiles from Summer
Summer was so good to me.
Right before I left to China and Janeemebe left to Korea, we sent a package off to Chua La (Leaf Temple), where we taught English and played with the monks while we were in Vietnam volunteering. Chua La is probably one of my most favorite places in the entire world [...]
1, August 2008
Vietnam Part 5 of 5: Chùa Lá
Alas, I am finally at my last post of the 5 part series =D Of all 3 sites, this was my favorite. Chùa Lá (or aka Leaf Temple) has a special place in my (our) hearts and where we spent the most time at. This post will probably be the longest..and no matter how much [...]
31, July 2008
Vietnam Part 4 of 5: Minh Tâm Orphanage
As I stated in my last blog, it was ridiculously difficult to take photos of these kids because 1. they always wanted our cameras, 2. they would fight over the camera, and 3. they were too young to be trusted with our electronics, so some days we would just go here without it. We could [...]
29, July 2008
Vietnam Part 3 of 5: Ky Quang Temple
The first site we went to when we started our volunteer time was Ky Quang. Something I regret from our trip was that we only went to Ky Quang once because of how little time we had.
Pictures in all these sites were almost impossible to take since the children would go crazy over our cameras. [...]
