Last Day of Summer Classes

This morning was our final class; we handed back exams and handed out awards for best score and most improved. We went through a couple of of the exam questions together, took lots of photos, and then we all went out to lunch. 

Awards for the most improved students over the class.
(left to right): Sao, Sang, Tam, Chat

Thus starts summer vacation for both our students and us. They will have three weeks to go home and see their families before classes resume again in the fall. The resident fathers are also taking their home leave: Fr. Pat is back to Ireland for the month, and Fr. Trinh will head south to his home town of Can Tho. We are also taking the time to travel. On Wednesday we will be hopping on a bus (for 12 hours!) to Siem Reap in Cambodia where we will be visiting Angkor Wat. We also have plans to visit Australia.

We will return to teaching in the fall, just as this group of students will return to English classes, but we will not be together. Instead these seminarians will be staying in Saigon and we will be off to Nha Trang to teach a different group of seminarians. We will remain in Nha Trang for the year while we teach. We have been told the seminary is quite close to the beach ;p

Nha Trang

In the mean time here is a video of the students reciting a prayer. Can you understand them?

We very much appreciate you following along - please feel free to comment, or to email us with questions.  

-Kim and Chris

P.S. We would like to note that all of our touristing activities are funded our of our own pockets, and not from any of the fundraising we did. Fundraised money is used only for costs related directly to our mission work (Vietnamese visas, vaccinations, flights to Vietnam and flights home at the end of our trip, etc.)