Feeding three meals a day to over 200 starving girls and boys is difficult at best. Here is the dining room filled for breakfast. As usual in the Vietnamese culture (and especially true of children), the girls eat with the girls and the boys eat with the boys.
Below is a table of boys getting ready to enjoy their morning meal of bon (a light broth with noodles, vegetables, and meat, along with rice.
This is kind of a fuzzy shot, but you can see how tightly packed everyone is. But like children everywhere, it's fun being at summer camp and there is no denying that eating is one of their favorite pasttimes.
In the summers I spend time with my good friends in Phat Diem, Vietnam, a small country village with a world famous cathedral. Here are some of my musings. If you would like to correspond, please email me: garymeegan@gmail.com.
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Each year after graduation, the students eishing to enter university must take entrance examinations. They have been studying the past few w...
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Here is Nam Vu working his keyboard. Now entering 8th grade, he is quite the conversationalist. It's hard to believe that I have kn...
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While in Hue I went across the street from the seminary and took a walk along the river. It was the epitome of serenity