How to change the fates of 1000 kids within 18 days?

I was thinking how it is possible to achieve this sounding task. Targets are 10 year old kids. The goal is for them to have a clearer view of their future. Most countryside kids grow up in poor families. Their families from generations have known only farming, and so might they in 10 years time. But we believe they might not. Danang, Vietnam, is opening up rapidly. Land is now used for better purposes than planting. Only those who know to grasp the opportunity will survive. We aim to teach them basic English and general computing where Microsoft Words is the start. The question now is what forms the best means to make the kids apply such knowledge most effectively for their future?

- We can make the kids enjoy English so they will put more effort into this subject during studying terms.

- English is conditioned with fun. Fun teaching is introduced to teachers of all subjects. So the kids will enjoy studying in general since it is conducted in an interactive fun manner.

- Students have the opportunity to master practical Microsoft Words. The computer would no longer be a foreign object.

- Students have proper knowledge to gain access to and use the Internet as a convenient tool to supplement studying.

- How to avoid the kids going to playful websites and chat-rooms instead of educational sites?

- Teachers and DUT students would help in the longterm continual process. But teachers are busy with their own work. They might not be able to conduct lessons for the kids outside normal curriculum.

- There is an IT competition for secondary students. Those who win the prizes will get scholarships to study in specialized high schools in the city.

- The aim for the big group would be general exposure, awareness of the Internet as a tool, exposure to possible careers in the city other than farming.

So what we should do for this first year of a 4-year long term plan are:

1. General outcoming 6th grade students (incoming 7th grade students) - practical Microsoft Words and Basic English, introduction to useful tools on the Internet.
2. (10) Gifted incoming 8th grade and 9th grade students - special training for IT competition in the city.
3. Teachers in general - Powerpoint introduction, ways to make the lessons fun.
4. Awareness workshops - Introduction of different career opportunities available, introduction of city development, including aspiration-invoking trials.
5. DUT students - bi-monthly visits with tests and scholarships?

A fairy tale

Once upon a time, in a kingdom named MuhaMuha stays a little princess KitiKiti. Kiti princess lives in a small pink world of her own, where passion is the flag and love cheers the anthem. "Where there is a will, there is a way", let the nation sing.

Rather than sewing and singing, mushroom plays princess's favorite. So all the way she would go for the most delicate mushroom of all lands. Darting through forests with the birds singing, Kiti picked valuables stranger than mushrooms. KuKu Mr Prince surprised her with miracles she never dreamt. Here lies the person with the eyes she love, with the shoulder she holds, with the courage she admires, with the warmth following so deep into her dreams.

If only Princess could bring her dear Kuku forever to her Pinky land, she would hug him forever in her Kiti blanket and never let him go. But he is a Prince, a Prince in his Orange Oli land. Kiti loves a Prince and must let him go the way a Prince does.

Muha and Oli inbetween surges a firewall river. The tide rose higher and higher every step Kuku hesitates in face of the flames. On the other side of the stream, Kiti is waiting for her Prince dearly, growing up beside the darling song of the mushroom soup. If the Prince cannot cross the river, however often they chat with each other, they can never come together. Princess is angry how come the brave man she loves never tells her what he wants and courageously takes his action!

However, Kiti thinks Kiti is missing Kuku...

What is your identity?

Vietnam Spratly and Paracel islands (Hoang Sa and Truong Sa)'s ownership issue is on the top updated list of most Vietnam's youth forums these days.

Singapore and Malaysia have long been fighting over a Pedra island further into the sea. Who knows who wins, the Singaporeans need to talk about their break holidays, about the most recent shows on TV, about their never ending projects in school. They have no time.

I was wondering which is the better thing off of Vietnam over Singapore. Maybe that lies in this nationalism spirit.

A professor asks his students: "What is your identity?" A Singaporean says: "I'm a Muslim". "Vietnamese", says a Vietnamese. Vietnam people love their country. They pride on their nationality. Long learnt by heart in all primary textbooks is a heroic, gigantic history of 4000 year old dear Vietnam fighting for the land. The only thing missing is perhaps what tells them the fact, that the country is too poor, that the inferior them have to work harder than all to gain equality with others, that there is no seat for now self-satisfaction and peaceful laidback.

ODA funds are utilized for improving the fates of rich government officers. Corruption, though year by year repeated committed to fight, still spread fast even to the smallest unit working. Prices mount astoundingly everyday. Working people even in cities dare buy no meat for dinner amongst governments priding themselves from some-where world praises for good development. Education lags behind most countries of surrounding regions. Diseases spread rapidly without control and without information provision. People die everywhere of unreasonable this and that.

Vietnamese people love their country. But please, someone must tell them action is to go, now.

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Some thing weird and normal, I wish I could draw so I will paste it all around, here :)

A China that is swallowing tons?

Cholera and Vietnam

On a loss to Singapore

The Vietnamese, strategizing ahead how to win over Thailand in the final 2 days ago, lost to Singapore 3-2 in the selection round of Seagames soccer today. The young boys kicked 2 goals into their own net, leaving 1 goal free for their opponents to stroll in. Their famous, long heralded by the nation, coach was sitting stoned on the outside benches, having nothing to say.

Vietnam is developing fast, recordedly so fast that its people impatiently await a day their S land becoming a biggest Asia dragon, a day Vietnam team rolling balls on a World Cup two thousand and more. Vietnamese are the happiest people in the world, because they are optimistic. Despite all those, might it not be too much to expect from optimism a final goal achievement? Facing facts or not, the Vietnamese are still left behind by Singaporeans. This Merlion city is stressed, worried, and they care about their progress however speedily they are progressing. Managing boards have important things to say. With specific realistic orderly strategies with which acquaint even a cleaner, citizens all work hard and succeed.

This may be the lesson the Vietnamese can learn from.

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