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Dear everyone,

Here are my predictions for the year 2099.

The Earth will get cooler.

People will grow trees on the streets so it will be cool in summer.

The forests will be grown again in many countries. There will be a lot of beautiful and clean rivers, lakes.

The world will be more modern. People will fly in the sky, with flying shoes.

The world will have many new and modern telephone, TV…

People will travel to other planets like Mars, Jupiter, the Moon or galaxies…

Scientists will recreate animals like dinosaurs, build Jurassic Park.

We will meet aliens. Some of them are small, green, have three eyes, one arm and two legs. Some of them are very beautiful or handsome. They are very friendly and they love people. We love them too.

Would you like to wake up in my future world?

Yours

Nguyen Thanh Mai

Author: Nguyen Thanh Mai

Editor: Maria Aili

Wider World language center: www.widerworld.edu.vn

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Do’ paper is a material traditionally used in the creation of Dong Ho paintings, a type of folk woodcut painting which originates in Dong Ho village in BacNinh Province, Northern Vietnam. It is a natural paper created by the bark of the Do tree (Rhamnoneuron balansae).

Exhibition Do’10 was organized in late Jul 2013 at HCMC Fine Arts Museum. Do’10 was a retrospective exhibition featuring selected paintings and installation works created by Le Hien Minh over the last decade, all of which utilize traditional Vietnamese handmade Do paper as the central medium. Dó10 illustrated the progression of this artist’s creativity from her early 2D experiments with Do paper, to her large scale sculptures of today.

Although the Do paper was the central medium in her work, her overall body of work appears to have been created using a diversity of materials. For example, the material of “Birds” 2009 appeared to be stone and “Home” 2004 appeared to be rusty metal. This diversity of appearance was a natural outcome of art making process, which engages natural elements such as rain, humidity, sun, etc. to generate unpredictable outcomes.

The artist through her use of Do Paper, offers a new perspective on a traditional Vietnamese material. In this work, the material acts as a bridge between contemporary Vietnamese/Global culture, and Vietnamese art history and traditional culture.

 (Source: cinet.gov.vn  &  hanoigrapevine.com)

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Mid-Autumn is a tradition festival. On the autumn night of full moon, children play traditional games. In some rural areas, it is generally held for children together the procession lights going across the countryside, neighbors, neighborhood during the night. Children parade on the streets, sing and carry colorful lanterns of different sizes. Dances are also traditional and include the dragon dance and the flower dance.

While the children are playing, parents arrange banquet. The fruits, typical food of the occasion are bananas and cereal, fruit market, red and pink pickled green, few custard-apple and grapefruit is indispensable to this day. Look up the Moon, can see a clear image of a sunspot can people sitting under trees ancient appetites, and children believe that it is the original Uncle Pebble sitting Banyan tree.

Mid-Autumn Festival is a tradition very meaningful. On this occasion, people buy cakes, tea and wine to ancestors, or as grandparents, parents, teachers, friends, relatives and other benefactors. And it is a good opportunity for children expressed his gratitude to her parents and extended this care in the lives of each other. Therefore, the more love family more closely.

Author: Nguyen Ngoc Huyen

Editor: Maria Aili

Wider World Language Center, widerworld.edu.vn

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Last week, I spent my vacation at Cua Lo beach. It’s a beautiful beach that I haven’t seen before.

On Thursday evening, my family went to the train station to go to Cua Lo. I was excited because my grandparents, my uncle and my aunt’s family went with us. The train started at 9 p.m. On the train, my brother, my cousins and I played cards. Then, we read the books.

On Friday, at 5.30 a.m, we stopped at the train station at Vinh city. Then we went to Cua Lo by taxi. We went to the hotel to take a rest. Next, we had breakfast. In the afternoon, we went to the beach behind the hotel to swim. At 5 p.m we went to the hotel to take a shower. After that, we had dinner and went to the park to play. It was a tired day. At 10 p.m, we went to bed.

On Saturday morning, at 5 a.m, we got up and go to the beach. When I went to the beach, the sun was rising. My mother and my aunt went to the market to buy some sea foods.

We stayed at Cua Lo to Sunday afternoon and we went home by bus. It’s a great vacation.   

Author: Duong Minh Khanh

Editor:Igor Mandic - Wider World Language Center: widerworld.edu.vn

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The Ex-Book-Change Day will be held on July 28^th, 2013 at Ha Noi Youth Culture and Sports Palace, No 1 Tang Bat Ho Street, Hai Ba Trung District, Hanoi.

Ex-Book-Change has officially become an important event of Book Festival Day project since 2012, which is carried out by Circle of Friends (CoF) with the annual supports of Thang Long March Fund,  which aims at raising inspiration to widen knowledge and nourish the soul of over 8,000 children at the 08 poorest communes, Ba Vi District, Ha Noi.

To continue the success of Ex-Book-Change Day 2012 and Book Festival Day 2012 atTienPhongPrimarySchool, Ex-Book-Change Day 2013 (EBC 2013) will be extended. Besides creating the good place for those who love reading in Ha Noi, EBC 2013 is the precondition to raise fund for Book Festival Day in August, 2013. All the money will be donated to buy books and build class bookshelves in Book Festival Day.

EBC 2013 is going to be from 9am to 4pm in Sunday morning. Besides books exchanging activities during the day, the key point in the morning is Talk show “Reading with children”. The participants of experienced speakers with games between parents & children in the Talk show will interest the participants, share raising-children experiences to parents and encourage children to read books actively. In the afternoon, Music show for raising fund “Each book, one love” will be taken place with sections of student music bands, dancing bands in Ha Noi.

Furthermore, fund raising and exhibition area in Ex-Book-Change 2013 are the following events in the afternoon. While the fund raising area brings so many activities such as “Books to build libraries for children” and writing calligraphy, fast drawing, telling from Tarot card, etc, the exhibition area will make people impressive and moved on Photovoice corner - where shows photos of children in Ba Vi with deep feelings of volunteers through some times doing surveys.

For book changing activity, books are going to be collected starting from July 10^th to July 24^th, 2013. Information about collecting books as well as about EBC 2013 is updated in  http://www.vongtaybeban.vn/

(Source: http:www.vongtaybeban & http://hanoigrapevine.com)

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Last Monday, my mother and I went to the meeting to talk about the students’ methodology. CEO Bui Thu Hien is a nice woman I’ve ever seen .

She told us about the effect of methodology to approve six secrets. She is an author of six pinnacle instruments. She is a chairwoman of the corporation of Viet talent. She has a lot of meeting with parents and students around Vietnam to share with them the methodology.

It’s a pleasure to meet her. Whereby, I have some methods of the study. It helps me smarter and more creative. I really happy because of the result I had.

Author: Duong Minh Khanh

Editor:Igor Mandic

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Hello every one! My name is Huyen. Now, I would like to tell you about the legend of blue roses.

Once upon a time, there was an indiot, his job was caring for roses. The king had a very beautiful princess. She really loved roses, so every morning the idiot was required to bring her the most beautiful roses of the garden.

The princess fell in love with a prince whom she met at a festival. The princess was heard about a strange land on which he came from. She was really disappointed to know that the Prince would go far away in the next morning. But the princess didn’t worry at all because she believed that one day he would come back. Then she waited for him in hope.

One day, one week, one month and one year passed by… but there was no news of the prince. The princess was very sad, so the idiot told the princess about the legend of blue roses. And she always believed that she could grow a blue rose.

But the fool knew that the legend of blue roses was not real, he lied to her because he didn’t want to see the princess sad. However, he was also afraid that someday her roses would bloom but not blue roses.

Then one night, a God appeared and told him that the legend was true. He begged the God to create blue roses.

Early the next morning, the princess had a blue rose and her dream finally had come true. The war ended and the prince returned to her.

The princess came back to the rose garden to find the fool but he never appeared again. She only found a plant watering under the tree with her only blue rose. And the winds were swaying on the roses singing a song that:

“True love comes from the heart, and only blood from the heart of a true love can create a endless blue rose. It will make a miracle...”

What do you think the legend of the blue roses? I think that the legend of blue roses is very interesting and the blue rose is one of the most beautiful flowers. What about you? Please write to me.

Author: Pham Minh Huyen

Editor: Igor Mandic

Address: Wider World Language Center, http://widerworld.edu.vn

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(ICTPress)-Ted Engelmann is the author of several articles and photographs about the American War in Viet Nam. He is developing a photographic book “One Soldier’s Heart: the Emotional Impact of War.”

In March 1968, as a 21 year-old Air Force sergeant, Ted Engelmann (T.E.) arrived at Bien Hoa Air Base inViet Namand served a year tour directing air strikes with a Forward Air Control  (FAC) team.  T.E. spent seven months living in a US Army base camp, and five months in a Vietnamese coastal  village in the Mekong Delta. Later T.E. became a middle school, high school, and college teacher, and veteran advocate; all the time making photographs of veteran-related events and the people in several countries.

In 1979, T.E. became the first Veterans Service Advocate for the Disabled American Veterans, Vietnam Veterans Outreach Program, inDenver,Colorado.  T.E. coordinated resources for veterans and their families, including counseling for “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder”. T.E. taught about the American War inViet Namat the United Nations International School-Ha Noi,Viet Nam.

A photo of T.E.'s Photo Exhibition in Denver US, Mar 2013

In April 2005, T.E. returned two diaries of Dang Thuy Tram on a CD to her remaining family in Ha Noi.  In a few months, the family published a best-selling Vietnamese version of “Nhat Ky Dang Thuy Tram” (The Diaries of Dang Thuy Tram). In 2008, Random House published the English version, Last Night I Dreamed of Peace, the Diaries of Dang Thuy Tram. A Vietnamese feature film was recently made of the diaries.  In thanks for his return of Thuy’s diaries, T.E. is the only American invited to Ho Chi Minh’s war-time base of operations, Da Chong.

T.E. is the author of several articles and photographs about the American War in Viet Nam, and a Distinguished Lecturer with the Organization of American Historians. He is developing a photographic book “One Soldier’s Heart: the Emotional Impact of War.”

T.E.’s images will trigger visual intellect and emotions to better understand the emotional effects of war on soldiers, our families, and nation. T.E.’s fine art photographs are a direct result and respite to his own emotional work as a recent embeded freelance photographer inIraqandAfghanistan. These photographs of nature’s beings offers a continued sense of joy and wonder about the world in which we live.

T.E. in Photo Seminar of ICTPress in Hanoi, Mar 2012

(Source:  http://onesoldiersheart.com  & http://tedengelmann.com)

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Now, I’m telling you about my dream.

When I was six, I wanted to be a famous chef.

When I was eight, I wanted to be an English teacher but now I want to be a lawyer.

I want to be a lawyer because I love justice and I want to protect innocent people. Now I must study harder, learn Vietnamese law and international laws to work inVietnamor othercountries in the future. I need to read some law books to be a lawyer. I really love that job. Thank you for letting me share this..    

Author: Duong Minh Khanh

Editor: Dao Thuy

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For the third time, Goethe-Institut inSoutheast Asiainvites young composers of the region to present their compositions. The 2013 edition of the regional encounter is being organized in collaboration with theCollegeofMusicatMahidolUniversityin Salaya/Thailand.

An International Jury will select ten outstanding pieces. These will be discussed in a workshop in Bangkok/Thailand in December 2013. The 10 composers will be invited to this workshop. Goethe-Institut is proud to announce once again the participation of the Berlin-based group for contemporary music “Ensemble Mosaik” during the workshop and the festival.

After the workshop, the international jury will make a final decision and price-money will be awarded to three winners. Workshop and concerts will be held between December 09 and 15, 2013 atMahidolUniversity, Salaya (nearBangkok).

Goethe-Institut in Southeast Asia welcome composers from Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand,Philippines andVietnam to send in their work.

Deadline: July 31, 2013
Workshop | Festival | Award Ceremony: December 2013

(Source: http://www.goethe.de/ins/th/ban/en7244366.htm)

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