TVU dormitory is my second home, which contains my youth with the most memorable memories. The dormitory brings a beautiful sky to accompany me at Tra Vinh University.
Personally, TVU dormitory is not only a place to stay but also a place to save beautiful memories. In fact, the dormitory is the right choice for students in my point of view.
The cost of renting a dormitory room is quite low, which saves a considerable amount of money for students during their studies at university.
One of the most important holidays in Vietnam is Tet holiday which is usually called the Lunar New Year. Tet is a festival which is celebrated in late January or early February. Tet Holiday is considered the best occassion for family members to return home and get together.
OnTet, everyone is busy buying some necessary items such as clothes, food, shoes, etc. At spring flower market, people go to visit and choose the most statisfied pots of flowers. Peach blossom, kumquat, yellow daisy, apricot blossom, etc are flowers which are used for decoration in the traditional festival. Moreover, food is gotten ready, and traditional dishes get ready: square glutinous rice cake, pickled welsh onion, pie, chicken, spring roll and these confectioneries such as ginger jam, suger-preserved lotus seeds, sweet, cake, etc.
Everybody often cleans and decorates their house, and their ancestoraltar is tidied up. Vietnamese families have a tray of five fruits on their altar called five – fruits tray, each of which conveys a different meaning and is a symbolic of happiness, luckiness and wealth.
People often stay at home to welcome guests to their house or go to their relatives’ and neighbors’ houses. The elderly receive wishes for health, adults receive the fortune and success while the young and children will receive lucky money. Laughters and talks are heard everywhere on Tet holiday those days. Besides, Vietnamese people often go to pagodas."Tet" is the word that is very familiar to Vietnamese people whenever we think about our country. This is the time for family reunion, for festivals, and for people to give love to their beloved loved one. For us, I enjoy the warm and cozy Tet's atmosphere when all members of my family gather and talk together excitedly.
Have you ever heard about Ghosts’ Festival on October 31st? We think you’ve ever heard about it at least once. Yes, we are talking about Halloween day! That was the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day and Halloween, which is held to dedicate the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed. To be a part of this holiday, students of the School of Foreign Languages also had many activities in the weekly English-Speaking Club (Nov, 1st, 2018). Luckily, we- Quế Thư, Cẩm Mến, Hồng Mỵ, and Tài Lợi had a chance to engage in ESC that night as the members of ESC team. Although we have never participated in any official Halloween festivals, we could feel the horror atmosphere there as if we were in a real Halloween night.
Halloween atmosphere at English Speaking Club
At the beginning, the participants were watching a short movie which was very scary. While the audiences were watching, some of the ESC’s members were ready to surprise them by sneaking behind and haunted them with the creepy costumes. Actually, it could be funny since our intention being considered as failure because students didn’t care at all and they even asked us to take photos together despite the well-prepared costumes.
Members – Tài Lợi, Hồng Mỵ, Quế Thư, Cẩm Mến masquerade into different horror characters
Ms. Sachi is sharing her experience about Halloween festival.
ESC’s members in Halloween night
The Halloween night at English Speaking Club was ended successfully by the participants’ pleasure. We believed that each person who joined the Halloween festival that night also had more information as well as a chance to celebrate a special day from Western countries. By writing this, we can share our feeling about a special festival inherited from the Western. We do know that Halloween is not only a chance for people to play tricks to others, but it also has a significant humanity value. Life and death are two unseparated aspects. When someone passes away, we keep all memories about them at the bottom of our heart and believe that they will return one day. Halloween is a chance for life and death to harmonize. It showed people’s trust in the unreal world, and shortened the difference between life and death where we ourselves do not know whether it exists or not. After the festival, we all have the same feeling about the death which is not the end of everything but the new dawn for a new life.
How about you? What do you think about Halloween? And are you scared if you see a headless ghost chasing you?
Personally, TVU dormitory is not only a place to stay but also a place to save beautiful memories. In fact, the dormitory is the right choice for students in my point of view.
