MoM + VnEsE fRiEnDs!!!

Monday, 16^th April, 2012

This time goes so fast! One year left. I miss my mom and my Vietnamese friends. They are going into year 12 now. Look at me! I just started term 1for year 11. I didn’t go back to my country. I knew myself. It is so hard to face up to this. My feeling will change. May be I will be happy in Vietnam, but for a while I will get upset when I go back there.

Fortunately, my mom is coming here. Hurray! Yeah! So…so fabulous! My mom and I made a plan. Of course, mostly I made it and my mom decided because it was up to her.
 We went to Sydney Aquarium because of my mom loves fish. Oh dear, it is so big, but I learnt many things there. Fatefully, my mom is a vegetarian. How to find the food for her in there! She has to eat popcorn. I am happy to enjoy food with her. She will be here for nearly 2 weeks. So I will stay with her the whole time.

Oh my goodness! She saw a shopping centre. That is not good! I tried to trick her in to going the other way but she saw it. I am scared of that. This is not staying on my plan. Can anyone help me? I must follow her in there otherwise she will get angry. I really didn’t want that. I found a chair and sat there. She walked around and found many clothes for me. I had to try them on. I am very lazy to try on clothes. I am not sure whether they are clear or not. My mom is my God. I did it with my unhappy face. After 4 hours, she chose some clothes for me and my step sister. I wish my step sister could go shopping with my mom all the time. Not me!

Finally, we are at home now. So tired! I would be happier if she didn’t go to shopping centre. But she did it because she loves me. Ok! Move on! Never mind! I still love you, Mom. Thank you for coming to take care of me.

HuRrAy! FiNsHiNg YeAr 10

Friday, 16^th December, 2011

Hurray! I finish year 10 twice one in Vietnam and one in Australia! But I had a different feeling. In Australia, I studied harder than in Vietnam. Because of my English, it was so difficult to me. Every day, I tried to study new words and highlighted new information which I never did before. For sure, my mom will be very happy to see this. From the lazy girl I was, I have changed to hard working! What made me become like this? I feel more comfortable here. My teachers spent their lunch times with me to teach me and show me everything I didn’t know. They were very friendly and warm hearted. Thank you! Thank you very much! That is what I want to say to all of them. School certificate was coming up. I got depressed. Everybody helped me to calm down. ‘Can I? Should I?’ I tried my best by practising past papers and writing an essay. Finally, I got my result today. I am extremely happy. 

My teacher called my name to go up in front of many students. The principal gave me my result, shake my hand and said ‘Well done’. Yeah! I am extremely delighted. A little bit poised and proud of me. I want to scream ‘Mom, I wish you were here so you could share this feeling with me. Mom, thank you! Thank you for bringing me to this wonderful country! It is a valuable! You will never be disappointed with me anymore! I promise!’ I miss you, Mom.

EnJoY! RaNdWiCk GirLs' HiGhScHoOl!!

Tuesday, 6^th September, 2011 

It was the second day at Randwick girls’ highschool. I wore the fully school uniform. It looked the great here so far. Same as every year 10 students, I have 5 compulsory subjects and 2 elective subjects. The nice thing is my school starts at 9:00 am and finishes at 3:15 pm. I am more confident than the first day. My friend told me many necessary things for studying. She is very nice to me. I can’t even describe how cool she is! Luckily, we had the mostly same classes except for history, geography and science, but she brought me to every single class. Thank you a lot of my friend! I didn’t know how to express this feeling to her. I hope to be her friend forever. I love her so much of course just as a friend.

Wait! Wait! I study at girls’ highschool. This is the first time I went to girls’ highschool. I was so embarrassed .I couldn’t find the girls rest room. Oh dear! I waited to find it. Finally, I found it and was still waiting at the front of the room. Let me think: ‘Is it girls’ rest room or boys? Am I sure this one is for girls?’ Luckily, I met my Maths teacher and asked her where it was? She showed me the room but I was still confused. After 10 minutes, I recognized that this is girls’ highschool. I am so ‘SMART’. In my mind, this is the funniest story! I just gave myself a warm smile.

SeE UrS GuYs As SoOn As I cAn

Friday, 2^nd September, 2011
 

20 weeks left! My English has improved mor

e than. I have shown that I am ready for high school. And also I am ready to leave Tafe language centre. Only 20 weeks but I have experienced many feelings: happiness, sadness and comfort. I miss my teachers and my friends I have learnt from many things about Australia culture, Maths, Science and English. Bravo! I enjoyed every single class. I met many friends form many countries such as: China, Korea, Venezuela and Thailand. It has been good to learn about their languages and cultures. I miss the times that all of us spent at lunch time together and hanging out together after school time. They were great times! Especially, the best memory I will remember forever was our excursion at the zoo. This was the true I had bird phobia. I didn’t realise that the zoo had so many birds and chickens. Oh my goodness! The ones I liked best were dingos. They looked so smart with large eyes. I love them so much. I forgot my phobia when I looked at them. Suddenly, I my foot felt and I have worn sandals. Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! The small and colourful bird was standing next to me. What the hell! 

 All of my friends and my teachers listened to my scream. They came over to help me make it fly away. Finally, I calmed down after 20 minutes. I realised that I must to be carefully watch the birds every movement. This let me know that my friends and my teachers are always ready to help me as soon as they can. I want to let the world know that ‘I love all your guys and thank you all of you.’

WeLoMe To NeW wOrLd!

Saturday, 16^th July, 2011

                                                   Welcome to Australia!

This is the second time I have been to Australia by myself. Unlike the first time, this time I decided to have a study plan for high school. I am very fortunate to have the opportunity to study abroad. At the airport I stand and waited for my guardian. I missed her so much. I haven’t seen her for a long time. Hooray! There she is! I saw her. She is like an angle, but even more beautiful and wise. Because it had been 8 years, she couldn’t recognize me. Yay! ....Yap!  I am so glad to meet her again. Her family is a part of me like my second family. Surprisingly, my second family had a small party to celebrate my arrival! In addition, they gave me many presents. They were so kind to me. And of course I brought many traditional clothes for them. It was so cool! They were so lovely and amused by the Vietnamese traditional clothes. 

I told them about many things like my education when I went back to Vietnam and my family in Vietnam. Actually, I was much more confident to speak to them this time and I told them I missed them so much. They taught me how to learn English and helped me with my homework and pronunciation. They also reminded me how to go to school the safe way. Everything is very wonderful with me. It has been a great start. So hopefully, my education will improve a lot while I am here. Oh dear! So tired! Got to go to bed! Sleep time!