I wrote this at 2am, so I know there are still a lot of mistakes. And I need to cut out some words, too. I really appreciate your help. Please feel free to be harsh on this. I'll try to help you guys if you need me. Tks a lot and good luck to all of us :X:X:X
We honor the many different forms of diversity in our community. Your perspective is valuable because it comes from your life experiences, family background, culture, and traditions. Please tell us about a tradition that is important to you that comes from your family, community, or culture (250 words).
It was the story about Mạc Đĩnh Chi - a famous mandarin in my beloved country - that any Vietnamese person can tell. We all learned about him on our very first day at school. Mạc Đĩnh Chi was so poor that he could not afford to go to school. In the morning, he could just stand silently outside the class, while grazing the buffaloes, listening to the teacher; and when the dark came, he would catch fireflies and put them in an eggshell to light up. Having nothing to write down, he used a small stick to write on the ground. And all his efforts to study finally paid off when he became the first doctoral candidate of both Vietnam and China. Mạc Đĩnh Chi was just one of many examples about the hallowed tradition of great fondness for learning the Vietnamese people are possessed of. We, all the Vietnamese, have grown up with stories like this being engraved in our heart and mind. Just like Mạc Đĩnh Chi, we have a thirst for knowledge, we make every ounce of effort to satisfy that unquenchable thirst and we steel ourselves for holding our ground whenever facing hardships. Being imbued with all anecdotes, the new Vietnamese generation are doing their best to make the beautiful name "Vietnam" known worldwide. We can now actively engage ourselves in bigger communities, the ones that are different from ours. In that way, I believe that our knowledge, our confidence and our independence will grow with the passage of time.
We honor the many different forms of diversity in our community. Your perspective is valuable because it comes from your life experiences, family background, culture, and traditions. Please tell us about a tradition that is important to you that comes from your family, community, or culture (250 words).
It was the story about Mạc Đĩnh Chi - a famous mandarin in my beloved country - that any Vietnamese person can tell. We all learned about him on our very first day at school. Mạc Đĩnh Chi was so poor that he could not afford to go to school. In the morning, he could just stand silently outside the class, while grazing the buffaloes, listening to the teacher; and when the dark came, he would catch fireflies and put them in an eggshell to light up. Having nothing to write down, he used a small stick to write on the ground. And all his efforts to study finally paid off when he became the first doctoral candidate of both Vietnam and China. Mạc Đĩnh Chi was just one of many examples about the hallowed tradition of great fondness for learning the Vietnamese people are possessed of. We, all the Vietnamese, have grown up with stories like this being engraved in our heart and mind. Just like Mạc Đĩnh Chi, we have a thirst for knowledge, we make every ounce of effort to satisfy that unquenchable thirst and we steel ourselves for holding our ground whenever facing hardships. Being imbued with all anecdotes, the new Vietnamese generation are doing their best to make the beautiful name "Vietnam" known worldwide. We can now actively engage ourselves in bigger communities, the ones that are different from ours. In that way, I believe that our knowledge, our confidence and our independence will grow with the passage of time.
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