Thứ Bảy, 1 tháng 10, 2016
The journey of a house – Community Service Project Vinh Long
The journey of a house – Community Service Project Vinh Long: We tell you stories about our Vietnam school tour stories and you can imagine how we have touch the real life at Green summer.
Thứ Sáu, 2 tháng 5, 2008
Cycing Vietnam Feb 2008 Volume 1
We are a gang who from Australia, English and of course Vietnam. We had fantastic trip to the only-for-bike places. We see a real Vietnam. This deserves our endeavour of cycling under the rain. Those are some pictures of our cycling across the endless green rice field between Hue and Hoian ( Vietnam)
This is me, the guide of the gang, in the rain
Andria, then Jack and Richard
Rob, the noisiest among the gang 
The whole gang with punchoes: Paul, De, Rob, Tris, Phil, Xiu(mechanic),Long (guide), jack , Andria, Richard, and Narelle
Rain! this water should be sent to Autralia
On the road
Thứ Bảy, 26 tháng 4, 2008
A homestay at a Vietcong house
Today we have a trip to the home of Mr. Ba Linh. This destination is a bed for us after a long day tour that we have ourselves lost in the mazes of Mekong delta in Vietnam. Other entries in this blog will show you this amazing trip, but this small article will focus on the moments we are with Mr. Ba Linh, a Vietcong with the interesting stories on his dinner table
We, a tour guide, with a middle-aged couple from UK, arrive his home around 3pm. The sun spays the yellow sun beams over the green color of fruit gardens. However, his house look darker; maybe the condensed fruit trees around the gardens keep the light away. Welcoming us is a man nearly 5 feet short, with a bent back, with yellow teeth but with the very friendly smiles. He is Mr. Ba Linh, the owner of the house we stay tonight.
Following him to his house, we see his wife, and say hello to his children, his grand children. After a cup of tea, we put our luggage to our room, with well-prepared beds ( with mosquito nets), and endow ourselves on the hammocks hanging around the trees in the front yard.
The dinner comes around 7 pm. What a fantastic meal with elephant ear fish, with prawn, spring rolls and all others we can’t remember. Having the meal, drinking several cup of house wine ( that make from tree roots), we forget ourselves by going along his story – his life.
He is now 77 years old, and have 3 children: 2 sons and one daughters. He, a genuine Southern man, has joined army as he was 14 years old ( 1944) to fight against French. In 1954, he came to the North, to get a training, then later he would be back to the South for the war. He was a real Viet Cong then. In 1957 he went to Laos and In 1960 he was assigned to base in the Centre of Vietnam, leaving behind him a just-married lady in Nam Dinh province, the woman we met as arriving. In 1969 second lieutenant Ba Linh has been affected by Agent Orange in a troop to fight to Lang Vey, Khe Sanh. He doesn’t know all about the terrible harm of AO. And now he knows. The first son born in 1962 and the second daughter born in 1965, as he trooped pass by Nam Dinh Province, are alright; but the last son, born in 1971, has been affected by the AO in Ba Linh’s body. Till now the chemical still tortures his body with the endless pain and his body has contracted everyday
In 1975 he went back to the South with the whole family, settled down in Mekong Delta, and became a real farmer. No more fighting, no more worry. And now he has a happy life with a good family, good contacts to tourists and good wine made from tree roots that he believes strongly that this can cure his AO body
He has the unforgettable memories. That was the three times of meeting Ho Chi Minh President: one in President Palace in Hanoi, one in Xuan Mai village 30km away from Hanoi, and one in Nam Dinh province. That was the fighting in 23 Dec 1969, when his company captured two colonels of South Vietnam Army. That was the 45 days surrounding Horse shoes hill, hill 400 in 1970. That was 45 minutes in 7 Jan 1971 his company has conquered 550 bunkers and lost only 23 lives
As we ask him how he feels as meeting his ex-enemy: French and American, he laughs and says: “No problem at all, I know that they just come here by the command of their commanders. Now no more war and no more fighting. Why should we keep that heavy thinking in our mind?
Mr. Ba has fight against American before 1975, and now he welcomes them back to his home for a dinner, as friends
We, a tour guide, with a middle-aged couple from UK, arrive his home around 3pm. The sun spays the yellow sun beams over the green color of fruit gardens. However, his house look darker; maybe the condensed fruit trees around the gardens keep the light away. Welcoming us is a man nearly 5 feet short, with a bent back, with yellow teeth but with the very friendly smiles. He is Mr. Ba Linh, the owner of the house we stay tonight.
Following him to his house, we see his wife, and say hello to his children, his grand children. After a cup of tea, we put our luggage to our room, with well-prepared beds ( with mosquito nets), and endow ourselves on the hammocks hanging around the trees in the front yard.
The dinner comes around 7 pm. What a fantastic meal with elephant ear fish, with prawn, spring rolls and all others we can’t remember. Having the meal, drinking several cup of house wine ( that make from tree roots), we forget ourselves by going along his story – his life.
He is now 77 years old, and have 3 children: 2 sons and one daughters. He, a genuine Southern man, has joined army as he was 14 years old ( 1944) to fight against French. In 1954, he came to the North, to get a training, then later he would be back to the South for the war. He was a real Viet Cong then. In 1957 he went to Laos and In 1960 he was assigned to base in the Centre of Vietnam, leaving behind him a just-married lady in Nam Dinh province, the woman we met as arriving. In 1969 second lieutenant Ba Linh has been affected by Agent Orange in a troop to fight to Lang Vey, Khe Sanh. He doesn’t know all about the terrible harm of AO. And now he knows. The first son born in 1962 and the second daughter born in 1965, as he trooped pass by Nam Dinh Province, are alright; but the last son, born in 1971, has been affected by the AO in Ba Linh’s body. Till now the chemical still tortures his body with the endless pain and his body has contracted everyday
In 1975 he went back to the South with the whole family, settled down in Mekong Delta, and became a real farmer. No more fighting, no more worry. And now he has a happy life with a good family, good contacts to tourists and good wine made from tree roots that he believes strongly that this can cure his AO body
He has the unforgettable memories. That was the three times of meeting Ho Chi Minh President: one in President Palace in Hanoi, one in Xuan Mai village 30km away from Hanoi, and one in Nam Dinh province. That was the fighting in 23 Dec 1969, when his company captured two colonels of South Vietnam Army. That was the 45 days surrounding Horse shoes hill, hill 400 in 1970. That was 45 minutes in 7 Jan 1971 his company has conquered 550 bunkers and lost only 23 lives
As we ask him how he feels as meeting his ex-enemy: French and American, he laughs and says: “No problem at all, I know that they just come here by the command of their commanders. Now no more war and no more fighting. Why should we keep that heavy thinking in our mind?
Mr. Ba has fight against American before 1975, and now he welcomes them back to his home for a dinner, as friends
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