On December 16, our community superior, Tinh, postulant Thao, and I went to Kon Tum to spend the weekend visiting the students, those scholarship who belong to our project.  Because of the occasion of Christmas and New Year, we also wanted to see how their life is going on, how is their study doing. As usual, we started to travel from Sai Gon in the afternoon of that day and arrive the early morning the next day, so we could have more time to meet them. But this time they had some activities at their school so they couldn’t go home to see us on Saturday like other times. But instead, some of us joined the funeral mass of a girl 3-year-old with cancer in the village and some visited the houses around the Parish and play with the small children of the area.

     The meeting with the students was moved to Sunday, December 18; at 8h30 am they started to come from different villages. Because during these days the temperature of Kon Tum is low we decided to meet them a little bit late. Some of the students couldn’t attend because they had to do their duty at school. After gathering them we started the meeting by getting to know one another with a game of introducing names, and grades…then sharing about their school and study. How is their daily activity in school? What do they like or it is a challenge? Representative of each grade and some from grade 12 have shared their experiences. We, the sisters also shared and encouraged them in their study. After that, we gave them a medal of the Pope cross as a gift and shared some sweets before we say goodbye and sending home because in the afternoon we needed to go back to Sai Gon and they had to come back to their school. All these experiences and opportunities we give thanks to God, who made these happen and let us be part of Him.


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