I have been tutoring Sister Maria Hanh (left) and Sister Anna Lien in pronunciation at the convent. Today was my last lesson for the year and they presented me with a glass cube engraved with a likeness of Our Lady of La Vang, the patroness of Viet Nam. It is beautiful.
In typical sister fashion, we all had to get into one of the pictures, so here we are. My arm needs to get longer if we keep doing these kinds of shots.
Click on the picture and you'll see the note the good sisters wrote to me. I sure know how to pick great students.
Mr. Hieu insisted I take a picture of him with the water. It's his imitation of the Statue of Liberty.
I'm trying for the aww factor here. A young puppy adopted by the sisters. You remember the bunch from a few weeks ago. This one is a bit bigger now, but just as cute.
In the foreground, that's ostrich, a specialty from the south of Vietnam. It's was yummy and didn't taste at all like chicken. It was cooked with little onions that were sweet. On the left? A whole lotta nope...snails.
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