My New Best Friend, Khanh!

By Kody Khoi Ngo

Today was our fourth day at the school site. There wasn't as much to do compared to the last two days at the site. All we had to do was to paint another coat on the walls and windows and it was off to the beach!!!

Over the last two days, I made quite a few friends from both from the school and the volunteers for Sunflower mission, but there was one friend that stood out more than the others. A local 5 year old boy, Khanh, who has a dark tan, and wears clothes that are always one or two sizes bigger than usual. He would always come back for piggy-back rides, water, candy, etc. He is one of the cutest kids I have ever seen!!! I just hope that you or any other person who's reading this can meet a child as sweet as Khanh!!!!!

Interesting Day

By HoangVy Tran

We woke up quite early unfortunately. However, the cafe sua da that Nanhi got me was soooo good that it woke me up instantly. The breakfast served at the Oscar Saigon Hotel was really good and Dan got to enjoy his favorite xuc xit. After that, Nanhi, Gabby, Nikky and I took our first walk together around the streets of Saigon and exchanged money. We saw stores like Gucci, Milano and multiple other small gift shops. The streets were quite crowded very early in the morning. One of us almost got ran over by a moped driver. That was the uncool part. We all went to lunch after that at this really delicious restaurant called Nha Hang Ngon before the short flight to Phu Yen. Everyone got to enjoy multiple dishes and desserts.

After we all stuffed ourselves, we got to fly to Tuy Hoa. Even though the rule of no smoking is strictly enforced on airplanes everywhere, apparently it could be broken by our own very "cool" pilot. About thirty minutes into the flight, the pilot walked out of his position down the aisles of the plane. Most of us totally agreed that we could smell it strongly as he walked past us. That was strange!

The flight was pretty short, and we took a 30 minutes bus ride to Phu Yen Saigon Hotel. From here, we got to meet the kids from Hue: Frenchy, Dao, Nhan, Jet. They were all really cool people. At first they were shy, but after our multiple games of ice breakers. We attempted to learn to everyone's names and interesting facts about each person. The game was extended to like an hour because our bus was late. After that, everyone was pretty hungry and we all went to dinner and enjoyed some local Tuy Hoa food. That's pretty much it for today, goodnight everyone!
Photos by: Dan Dao