Life Experiences and Pocket Change
by Tri Pham
I’ve never really been afraid to venture out into a foreign place. With a little pocket money and a few familiar faces beside me, I could take on anything. But this time, it was different. I knew no one here in Sunflower. Dropped into a group where people have known each other for decades, I felt like an outsider, like a puzzle piece that came in the wrong set. I thought of the pre-existing niches and social circles that I would be disturbing. Not only that, the stories that the old timers would tell me only exacerbated my worries. Landmines? Like come on, that’s a fear I didn’t even know I had until I went on this trip.
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Day 2, Trip 2
by Zachary Phi
My name is Zachary Phi and this is my second time going to Vietnam for Sunflower Mission. Today, we finished up what we started on our first day painting. Then after lunch, a lot of the team members went to go visit a couple of families within the village. I stayed back to just finish up a few spots on walls we needed to paint.
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Building a Mountain
by Dalton Bui
We Vietnamese people have a proverbial saying:
“Một cây làm chẳng nên non, Ba cây chụm lại nên hòn núi cao.”
This basically means that one stick cannot do anything; it is just a stick.
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Without Hesitation
by Khiem Ngo
Tired? Yes. Sore muscles? Yes. Would I get up early and ride the bus for two hours through the broken winding road to Tien Ngoc school to start another day of working in the heat of central Viet Nam? Yes …without hesitation!
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