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I went to school one year earlier than others, due to my mother's will. Not so excellent but I was 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 the High school, I took the University Entrance Exam and enrolled Ha Noi College of Pharmacy in the first year of the Millennium. In the second year, fed up with the education at the College, I applied for the National University of Singapore, choosing pharmacy as the 1st choice and environmental engineering as the 2nd choice. But I was refused. At the end of 2003, I found an online volunteer job. The work forced my brain to move. I spent a lot of time writing and managing stuffs. Got to know new interesting friends and got to learn a lot. 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, the slogans and Panorama's encouragement helped me to get on the right track. One year later, I started a local innitiative - Clean New Year's Eve Campaign, which was my 1st step into the volunteer world in Ha Noi (and 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 ... June 2006 I graduated from the university. Saying goodbye to both pharmacy and environmental movement, 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 Que Phong district, Nghe An province, Central of Viet Nam. I have learnt a great deal of valuable experiences after living and working with different ethnic minority peoples 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 grassroot people. Since April of 2008, I resigned from my work and spent 2 months for traveling, reflecting of the development world as well as my own world, who I am and where I am going. So currently my time is for reading books, studying for some standardized tests and searching for an opportunity to pursue higher education. In any case, all the way (should) lead to the field and I'm longing to the day I can get back to fieldwork. Stronger and better... ---------------------------- 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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