Annie Nguyen's Blog

2008-06-30T07:47:00.000-07:00

6 years project

(Kelly and Annie)

The world is not perfect. Life is not perfect. Nobody’s perfect. Even you are the top student at school, you’re still not perfect. Some people have a very relaxing life. Some people who have a very stressful life. We’re the lucky one. We’re so lucky that others people want to be like us. Have you ever thought of just standing, there’s someone keep staring at you and they just wishes to be like you. We should be grateful for what we have. We should be humble for what for what we have. And we should be happy for what we have.

At school, doing home works, keep up good grades, get on the honor roll is not enough. There are many things in the world that even you are the top students at school you can not experience, crime, suffering, and uneducated people, homeless. Have you ever experience how much those people have to suffering every single day. To think about it, we are very lucky, we have a home, we have a mom, a dad, and those people, look at them, they have no home, no one to take care for them, they don’t have education and…what next…uneducated people start to steal, to rub, to kill people just to get what they want. We may think. Why don’t they try to get what they want in a different way, a more honest way? But we can’t blame they, we know what is right and wrong, but them…Because they don’t have education, they doesn’t know what is right and wrong. What should they do? Or what should WE do to help them. Every single of us has been taught to be good citizens, help people; we all keep that in our heart. But…one small but very big question…How do we do it? We all know that we should do it…but how?

How to help them? Seem small but big mission. They are thousands of people suffering out side there. Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar..etc..Asian, Africa,…Everywhere in the world those people could be at. Don’t care about them, care FOR them. There are a lot of people need help but there are not many people who could help them.

For now, we…the next brand new generation, the next brand new sensation, we will stand up and help them. Then again… how how how???

You can start with just a tiny little bit action. When you see an old man sitting on the street with one leg cut off, he stinky and begging you for help, you can give him money. Not like 100,000 VND but only what you can give him. That’s a very small thing. You can even help them by trash. The trash collector want trash so that they could be pay. We can give them thing that we don’t need, BUT kindly not the you-are-loser way.

OK, now you think that your mission is complete by giving away a few bucks. But once you attend this savior game your mission will never be fulfill. You can always help the people around you. NOW, getting more specific, what if the fish you give to an old man, one day, he finished it and he have to go and beg others food again, then your fish only valuable to him 1 or 2 days. But what if, instead of giving him to fish, why don’t you teach him how to find a fish, and so, he will have the fish for a lifetime. Let’s try teach someone to earn something now just trying to give them what they want, need.

The modern day are very harsh. People are very competitive. They treat other like their mortal enemy. High-class people are superior, lower-class people are simple and sometime very low-class people such as beggar are unfairly treated. Children who came from wealthy family are well treated, children who came from poor family are mistreat and uneducated. The number of people who rub, steal, HIV are usually uneducated people. They were uneducated when they were young. Their parents had no money for them to go to school. Now, the presents day, the parents that are poor cannot effort money for their kids to go to school, if the children don’t go to school they won’t be teach right or wrong, they will be the next uneducated generation and if this keep on going, their children also be uneducated of WE don’t do something.

What we could do to help them, is teach them what we learn, teach what we know, teach them right or wrong. That’s a small but big help. But first, you have to be a wise person. If you don’t have knowledge how you teach other people. Then again, get straight As, get on the honor roll, that’s one part of being a good Global Citizen.

So, what we want you to know is:

Get straight As & Care for the poor people & Start with a small but big thing&Teach the poor people what you know&Get straight As.

What ever thing you’re doing you can always help the people you care about. But then again, you must be wise to teach the others.

2008-03-05T04:14:00.000-08:00

How to protect me out of the pollution?

Now, some places in the world still pollution. But people in those city always want to protect them self out of this problem. And in the government, they are tried to find the way resolve. Why did Vietnam polluted? Because about some people don’t have sense of civic responsibility. They throw the trash out of street, down the water. Make water polluted. Water turned to cloud, make the polluted rain. Another one, the factory uses that water, and when it’s dirty, they give out to the river. And smoke from cars and factory. That‘s all the problem make the city polluted. About me, I think when go out, I can wear the mask and something else to protect my face out of smoke. And people need to have responsibility to the city. , they can use something to replace the thing make smoke, they can recycle the trash, don’t need to burn. That’s all thing I want to protect me out of pollution.

''Tet'' holiday!!

2008-01-23T20:35:00.000-08:00

Every year, in Vietnam have ''Tet'' holiday. It's the important and wonderful holiday in Vietnam. And when it's coming, every people in Vietnam need to put the flag up in front of the house. And need to pray for grandfather, grandfather of my grandfather and grandmother. But another body are go to the church. Some are go to the temple and pray for the god. When the last day of the year, the clock over 12 o'clock, midnight, and then we have some friends come to our house and talk many good things for theer. new year. Then, they need to give lucky moneys for the kid, and then, the kid need to give the wish to have lucky .In the 1st day of Tet holiday, every family need to go to their grandfather and grandmother house to pray for the people older than them and already dead. Every house has to have a big plate with 5 kind of fruit, for lucky every year. Every house need to have the tree name '' Mai" ;this is the tree have yellow flower, they said need to have that trees to make family lucky, and have moneys of luck. We have ''Banh Chung, Banh Day'' .. Because when the king of Vietnam in century 6, he wants his prince to find the special food for Tet. Then, the prince Lan Liu find'' Banh Chung, Banh Day''. And he explain:'' Banh Chung is the symbol for sky, Banh Day for land .''And that why we have'' Banh Chung, Banh Day'' for Tet. Another special things, we have the lion dancing in the street. Because is make Tet more happier. That is what happen when Tet coming in Vietnam.

2007-11-26T20:34:00.000-08:00

This is my friend's picture, Diana!! When I find this and see first time, I feel Chrismas is coming because she make snow, the tree don't have leaves. It's look like whenthe wind blow very strong, leave is gone. But funny is the leave is gone but the grass is fresh. I don't know??^_^!! But when see whole of the picture, if don't have that green so the picture cannot be brought in relief. I like the cloud, is like a small cotton candy, blue cotton candy. The picture make people think about the night with snow and the yellow moon, and feel silent.

Now is near Winter!! See how this kUte giraffe play with winter???

2007-11-21T00:27:00.000-08:00

Let's play!!

2007-11-14T00:40:00.001-08:00

My pictures 1

2007-11-08T03:28:00.000-08:00

Place I want to go

2007-11-06T04:49:00.000-08:00

This is the Opera’s house in Singapore. It is look like a durian in Vietnam. This is at night of Singapore, and in front of the opera house is the Singapore River. And have the building for the national assembly. Along the River have some restaurants, and the light is shine in the water. I want to see night of Singapore and go inside the opera’s house. It so cool and lighting. That is why I want to go to that place.

And this is the ShongZanLin Temple in China. That looks like the old palace of the Vietnamese king. The temple has many floors with the wall covered inside the temple. On the top of temple is like make by gold. And I think this temple inside is have many cool thing so they nee to covered. I want to go so I can know about that.

This is in Las Vegas, Grand Canyon. One of the first national in United State. In the Middle of the Mountain is the Colorado River. This is when the mountain turns to the red one. And far away, the mountain has some blue of the cloud, because have some mountain very tall and cold. When my father goes there and takes pictures for me to know what Grand Canyon look like, is very cool when I can see the real view.