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I went to school one year earlier than others, due to my mother's will. I was not so excellent but pretty good at Maths, Physics, Chemistry and English at school. Maths and English were always special to me, Physics was also interesting, but Chemistry was quite boring. I liked Biology but seemed incapable of learning it well. I'm much interested in literature but the teachers' assessment was no more than so-so. Not knowing what to do after high school, I took the university entrance exam and enrolled Ha Noi University of Pharmacy in the first year of the Millennium. In the second year, fed up with the education at the university, I applied for the National University of Singapore, choosing pharmacy as the first choice and environmental engineering as the second. But I was refused. At the end of 2003, I found an online volunteer job. The work forced my brain to work. I spent a lot of time writing and managing forum posts. I thus got to know new interesting friends and learned a lot from the job. I'm totally satisfied. At the same time I accidentally bumped into TakingITGlobal. "Wow this is cool ..." - I thought, and started to explore the website with helpful advice from Brian Smith, who was moderating most of the forums at the time. The Understandings pieces, the website slogans and Panorama's encouragement helped me a lot to get back on the right track. One year later, I started a local initiative - Clean New Year's Eve Campaign, which was my first step into the volunteer world in Ha Noi and also in Viet Nam. This was a big hit that changed my life. I got to know more great people, discovered the world of NGOs, learned more about Environment, Community, Volunteerism and Sustainable Development ... In June 2006 I graduated from the university. Saying goodbye to both pharmacy and environmental volunteerism, I plunged into community development as an intern, later a field staff, and then a regional coordinator. From July of 2006 to March of 2008 I spent lots of my time going to different remote mountainous areas in the North and Central Viet Nam. My major field base was in Hanh Dich commune, Que Phong district, Nghe An province, Central Viet Nam. I have learned a great deal of valuable experiences after living and working with different ethnic minority people in the places I have visited so far. Although I appreciate development theories and research/paper work, I strongly recommend that (at least) beginners in social work should spend as much time as you can at the field, not only by visit but also by living, listening to and sharing with local people. In April of 2008, I resigned from my work and then spent 2 months for traveling, reflecting upon the development world as well as my own world, who I was and where I was going. In Autumn 2009, after a long time searching for an opportunity to pursue higher education, I applied and got accepted into a master's program in Rural Sociology in the US. I'm supposed to finish the program in Spring 2011. ---------------------------- Thank you for passing by and having a look at my page here. Feel free to leave me a message. Have a great day!
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