[Vnbiz] I am going to Cambridge!

[Pham Thi Thanh An]

Dear Anh Hoanh, Chi Phuong, Chi Anh, A.Duyen, A.Craig, A.Toan, A. Nhon, Le
Thu`y, Thu Thuy, cac em Romi, Phuc, Hai and many other dear VNBIZ
brothers/sisters,

 

Let me firstly express my heartiest thanks to all your kind words of
encouragement to me on this new adventure. 

 

My quickly-rushing first week in Cambridge has been a mixture of emotions
and an interestingly-divided load of various settle-down businesses,
classroom duties and quite a few other social programmes. Still a lot more
to be done before I could claim to be fully settled, but by far things are
more or less under control :-).

 

In my EAP class, which is a 5-week pre-course class before the full term
really begins, I am the only person from Vietnam. There are amazingly two
big groups of Chinese and Japanese students besides students from about a
dozen of other countries in Europe (both Eastern and Western Europe), Middle
East and Latin America and Africa. Believe it or not, one of my classmates
from Iran do not know where Vietnam is on the world map, and this reminds me
of how unpopular Vietnam could be in the present world history !? :-). I do
hope at least now as they get to know the first Vietnamese in their life,
they would not ask the same question the next time they see another person
from Vietnam.   

 

In terms of some initial impressions with the place, departing from the
noisy and busy Hanoi, Cambridge to me seems just another world with its
incredible serene atmosphere where the charm and beauty of old castles,
historic monuments match so well with the romance of the river Cam and the
seemingly quite slow pace of the life here compared with many other Western
cities and the popular courtesy of the local English people. 

 

I have just started to discover a few out of the 31 colleges behind the
long-standing fame of the University of Cambridge and somehow already been
overwhelmed by what I have seen and heard about them. Anyway, I hope to
explore more in the next weeks and months, so that I could at least be not
too bad a tour guide just in case some of you decide to drop by this lovely
town :-). 

 

That's it for now. Will revert at another point in time. 

 

With best regards, 

 

Thanh An

 

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From: vnbiz-bounces at mail.saigon.com [mailto:vnbiz-bounces at mail.saigon.com]
On Behalf Of Tea (Tuy-Phuong) LeTran
Sent: 21 August 2007 13:24
To: vnbiz at vietlinks.net
Subject: Re: [Vnbiz] I am going to Cambridge!

 

Dearest Thanh An,


Congratulation and best of wishes my dear.  I'm so proud of you !  Don't
forget to share your progresses with us when you're settling down okay dear
?

 

Much love,

Chi Phuong
 

On 8/17/07, Phan Thi Thanh An <thanhan2505 at gmail.com> wrote: 

[ Vietnam Business Forum ]

 

 

Dear CACC, 

 

Just so you know that I have decided to leave my job for a whilst to restart
my academic life in the University of Cambridge. I am now already in the
Hong Kong Airport waiting to board the next flight to London. 

 

If some of you happen to cross by Cambridge, please do let me know, we might
have a small vnbiz gathering there :-) !

 

All the best, 

 

Thanh AN 


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Tea (Tuy-Phuong) LeTran

Form is not different from Void, Void is not different from Form
Form is Void, Void is Form 
        (The Great-Wisdom-Beyond-Wisdom Heart Sutra)

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