Tuesday, October 28, 2008

"Would you prefer to do an undergradute course abroad or in your country?"

This is the question my form teacher asked our class member yesterday. I have thought about each completely and gotten my own answer. If I have a choice, I wish I would become an international student.
The main reason of my decision is that I like travelling, despite my car-sickness. Since I was a little boy, I have wondered a lot about things round me: plants, animals, stones, ... . So my parents have been used to my activeness. The more places I came, the more interesting experiences I got, but I have never left my country. As a result, I cannot pass the chance of exploring a foreign country.
In addition, going abroad means more freedom and more challenge. I will have to stand on my own feet. Living far from my family, my parents cannot care for me as much as they do when I am in home. I must do every housework and try to managing my budget carefully to avoid becoming 'poor' in the end of a month. This is a excited, really excited life.
Besides, the education condition in some nation, such as: America, Britain, Australia, Singapore ..., is more modern than in my own nation. My country is still a developing nation now. Although our government has paid a big attention to teaching student, there is a storage of material facilities. Yet students can use many perfect labs, great libraries and well-designed network system there. I believe that with such training status I would do better.
Again, Studying abroad has undeniable benefit. A domestic graduated student may has some advantage when applying for a job. Even so, he/she can be defeated by another applicant who has a diploma from a foreign college. Few degree of Vietnamese university is valuable in the world. Surely, I have one more reason to support my choice.
With what we have, I think I have made a correct decision. That is not right that my national education is bad, it is only not enough attractive. By things I will learn there, one day, I will return my home and use it to make my country better. I hope so.

Saturday, October 25, 2008

The second day

To day is my second day in blogspot . I have done many things and found some interesting ones.

First, I have continued completing my blog. After adding some widgets, I tried to understand the HTML editor. I have had a basic knowledge about CSS and HTML when using myopera, so everything seems to be smoother. Finally, I modified this blog apearance successfully. The border around images was deleted, the sidebar and main area became larger and the font size was increased.
Second, I have completed my English homework. To prepare for the next lesson, my teacher asked me to prepare a speech about the pplication process to tertiary study in Vietnam. With the dictionary, I have wrote one and post it here. I hope within tomrorow, some one will visit my blog and check it.^^
However, the most funny work I did today is seeking in the blogspot scociety. I have updated my profile 4 times before being appointed about it. When I was finding the bloggers who like English, I got the result that there are more than 4,200 members having the same interest as I. But, I quickly realised that most of them are girls and women! I visited two blogs and offered these bloggers to get friend with me. I am looking fowrard to hearing from them soon.

Wow, I feel asleep now. With such a busy day, I think I ought to go to bed immediately. Ooo...

Application process to tertiary study in Vietnam

In Vietnam, the tertiary education means "higher education". All pupils who has the G.C.S.E. (General Certificate of Secondary Education) can sit in the annual entrance examination whether they have attended at a senior high school or not. And this is usual application process to tertiary study in Vietnam.
First, you have to fill in the application form and send it to your school you tend to be attend in March. You must also enclose a copy these items in your parcel: your ID card, the originals of your school certificate, your birth certificate and the record of your performance at school. Next, you need take the G.C.S.E. examination in May after your last school year in this level of education. Soon, you can get its result in June. If you can overcome this first challenge, you will have about one month to keep reviewing to prepare for the entrance examination.
It usually takes place in July and lasts about a week and is divided in 4 main departments: A, B, C, D. You only have to sit in two of them . Afterward, you can relax before getting the result in August. A letter of acceptance from the university will be send to you when you have passed this exam in late August- early September.
With that out of the way, you can continue your schooling in a higher level in Vietnamese education system. You can even go on studying after graduated to get a B.A or M.A.

Where some thing begins ...

Hello everybody.
The man who knows two language is worth two men.

I'm a Vietnamese student and, of course, I love my mother-tongue. Besides, I have been trying to learn some more languages. I think English is a suitable one for me to start my learning. In fact, I am well going on with it. To improve my writing skill, I need practice more and more. Therefore, I have decided to choose a reliable address to write my English version blog.
After considering between WordPress's, Yahoo!Plus's, Opera's and blogger's services, I am interested most in blogger because of not only its wonderful functions, but also its great network over the world. These can make my English raised days by days. In fact, as you can see, I have had a blog here!
For those who say English, I'm a "foreigner". Surely, my posts cannot always perfect. I can make some mistakes, sometimes they even look silly.^^ But, I don't worry about this. If you, who spent your time on reading my words, can be more kind and leave some opinions, I can get much more experience and become better in English.
Now, let some thing begin.