Tuesday, December 27, 2005
MILLIONS OF HANDSTEPS TO SCHOOL
Dear friends,
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. May God the New Year bring to you happiness, health, and good lucks. For those who are expecting, may your babies are all as beautiful as angels.
Now, I am thinking about my weblog. Should I continue to write about those AO victims as "victims", miserable, pitiful?
Perhaps yes, because the plights are there, and I just simply reflect them on this weblog. I do not try to emphasise the trauma of AO parents of whom many have become mentally ill due to the suffering of their children.
But I also would like to tell you that among them there are many heroes and heroins, because of their persistence, their desire of study, and their struggles to overcome illnesses and physical disadvantages.
Here is one:
MILLIONS OF HANDSTEPS TO SCHOOL
Yes, I am not mis-spelling....
Truong Thi Sen, 16 years old, is the youngest daughter of Mr Truong Thanh Hai, a veteran from North Quang Tri front, and Mrs Le Thi Y. Sen was born with a beautiful face but withering legs. When Sen turned 7, her father died of many illnesses due to the consequences of agent orange in the Vietnam war.
Sen was brought up with the love of her mother and her eldest sister. Everyday she would drag herself to a kindergarten nearby. Upon seeing that, her mother decided to apply her to the kindergarten with the hope that she would find some comfort there.
Since then, Sen began her journey to education. The school was not far away, but the road was really a challenge for her. The little girl used her hands in turn to drag herself forwards, hand step by hand step. The bumpy road to school is mainly basalt soil (red soil) and cobbles. On rainy days, the road was covered by a porridge of red mud, her mother and her sister would carry Sen to school on their backs. But on sunny days, Sen went by herself.
In 1996, her eldest sister got married and moved away, Sen still got support from her mother to continue studying. With the love and help from her mother, teachers, and friends, Sen made her best in studying and get through the next class every years. In school year 2002-2003, she was selected as a representative of Nghia Mai Secondary School to take part in a gifted student’s competition of the district.
From class 1 to class 9, everyday, Sen wore a pairs of plastic slippers to her hands and dragged herself over the one-kilometer road to school. For nine years up to now, Sen probably has made a record of travelling thousands of kilometers by hands.
Sen is one of the moving examples of a little girl whose braveness, persistence, and her desire of study worth to be told to the world!
(Translated from www.vietnamnet.vn)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. May God the New Year bring to you happiness, health, and good lucks. For those who are expecting, may your babies are all as beautiful as angels.
Now, I am thinking about my weblog. Should I continue to write about those AO victims as "victims", miserable, pitiful?
Perhaps yes, because the plights are there, and I just simply reflect them on this weblog. I do not try to emphasise the trauma of AO parents of whom many have become mentally ill due to the suffering of their children.
But I also would like to tell you that among them there are many heroes and heroins, because of their persistence, their desire of study, and their struggles to overcome illnesses and physical disadvantages.
Here is one:
MILLIONS OF HANDSTEPS TO SCHOOL
Yes, I am not mis-spelling....Truong Thi Sen, 16 years old, is the youngest daughter of Mr Truong Thanh Hai, a veteran from North Quang Tri front, and Mrs Le Thi Y. Sen was born with a beautiful face but withering legs. When Sen turned 7, her father died of many illnesses due to the consequences of agent orange in the Vietnam war.
Sen was brought up with the love of her mother and her eldest sister. Everyday she would drag herself to a kindergarten nearby. Upon seeing that, her mother decided to apply her to the kindergarten with the hope that she would find some comfort there.
Since then, Sen began her journey to education. The school was not far away, but the road was really a challenge for her. The little girl used her hands in turn to drag herself forwards, hand step by hand step. The bumpy road to school is mainly basalt soil (red soil) and cobbles. On rainy days, the road was covered by a porridge of red mud, her mother and her sister would carry Sen to school on their backs. But on sunny days, Sen went by herself.
In 1996, her eldest sister got married and moved away, Sen still got support from her mother to continue studying. With the love and help from her mother, teachers, and friends, Sen made her best in studying and get through the next class every years. In school year 2002-2003, she was selected as a representative of Nghia Mai Secondary School to take part in a gifted student’s competition of the district.
From class 1 to class 9, everyday, Sen wore a pairs of plastic slippers to her hands and dragged herself over the one-kilometer road to school. For nine years up to now, Sen probably has made a record of travelling thousands of kilometers by hands.
Sen is one of the moving examples of a little girl whose braveness, persistence, and her desire of study worth to be told to the world!
(Translated from www.vietnamnet.vn)
