Tips to keep you alive after Cross Country

                 Another year has passed, giving me the feeling of both regret and proud. 2019 have given me many life lessons and new valuable experience.                 Looking back, I feel proud of myself because of my decision at the beginning of the year. I decided to study abroad and put me out of my comfort zone. To me, this decision was the right one because it has been giving me the opportunity to meet new people and learn many new things in a new land that I've never been to. But on the other hand, there are a few things I need to improve for "year of the mouse." Last year, I wasn't able to improve my GPA as expectation and I was still timid in talking to new people, I know that I could have done better but the aftermath showed that I didn't do my best.                  For New Year's Eve and Christmas holiday, I was lucky enough to have the chan...

                      Dear Ginny,             Time flies when we were having great times together, isn't it? It's been two years since that first time we met on that rainy afternoon of September, I was so happy the moment I had gotten to hold you in my hand, experiencing the technology of the future with a dual camera, face scan, fingerprint scan or the like. I knew that you were going to be a great friend- a great sidekick for my daily life.             Right now, two years have passed already and you have proved to me that my decision to choose you was not fruitless. Today, I just want to say thank you for what you have positively contributed to life. Every day, early in the morning, you always wake me up right on time and never hesitated to keep waking me until I'm completely out of my bed. I'm so sorry that for many times, I had intentionally turned you off and even d...

          Dear Dad, I'm writing this letter to let you how I miss you after 2 months of studying abroad. Are grandma, mom, and my sister all doing alright? By the time I'm writing this letter I really miss everyone and really want to see everyone. I miss going to the park with my sister and mom, cooking Vietnamese dishes with grandma and especially going out for breakfast with you every weekend after we finished playing tennis together. I know it's only been two months but I already miss those peaceful feelings to be with our family. If ignoring the fact that I really want to go home to meet everyone, my life here in my new school is going pretty well too. Speaking of my life right now, I find my new school really interesting too. I meet lots of new friends, some of them are very kind, funny and I really enjoy having a conversation with them but there are also annoying kids that make me feel offended by just looking at them. I think classes here are really in...

              As Lenin once said: "Study, study more, study forever," I have learned from this quote that to perfect a person not only about personality but also knowledge takes a whole lifetime and if I don't carefully exploit every little second of this short life, I might die in foolish and regrets. Therefore, my goals when I hit 25 are graduate with a master degree, find a good job and make many good relationships. As mentioned above why I want to keep study to get master degree, what about finding a good job? How can that be related to my study route? Well, It was a story long time ago, I was taught by my father that knowledge doesn't come from only books and lectures, it also come from the outside world and it's impossible to compose those knowledge into books simply because there are too much of them. Getting back from where I had started discussing, finding myself a good job would synonymous with getting into a good college, because going to ...

First week of school feelings: Fun, scaring, exciting are the feelings of my first week there. This is a brand-new experience of my life having to leave my parent and friends in my hometown behind. New school, new friends and new teachers are all part of this new school year. This one is different though, it’s the first week of studying in a new country. I think the first week of the school is the easiest since there would not be a lot of homework and what you need to do is to listen to what you need for the class and know other people well in the class. Though for the first couple days, I thought that finding friends here will be difficult cause I look wired and who would wants to talk a strange boy foreigner? But since the first time walking around campus, I was welcomed by many smiles and warm greetings all over the place. Soon I feel like living in my lovely home and the thought of not having any one play my favorite video game is gone. Getting to try new experie...