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Friday, March 15, 2024

POST 648 16Mar2024 Exercise Nghia Long - Rwanda part 3 -Various pictures

 

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POST 648 16Mar2024 

Exercise Nghia Long DEEP 23 

Rwanda part 3 

Various pictures

Vietnamese Words


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    POST 648   2024                                 

  Linda’s Thursday Quotation   

 

 

 

 

Think boldly. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Don't miss small details, keep your eyes open and be modest in everything except your aims.

 

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

 

 

 




 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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POST 648 – Mar.02,2024 /POST 149 (06 April 2014)

  

RWANDA

Part 3

  

 

 

 

RWANDA

Charles Phan Hoang

 

 (continued from Post 647)

 

 

In Butare I got a lot of good friends and students from both ethnic groups of Tutsis and Hutus. Also at that time there were a number of foreign professors and instructors, mostly French, Belgian, and Canadian, working at this university. A few years ago there was also a small group of Soviet professors and their situation turned catastrophic at the unpredictable collapse of the Soviet Union because for months during this period of change they did not receive any salary, no air ticket to go home, no money to stay. Thanks to the generosity and help of Rwandan friends their adventure eventually reached a lucky end.

Through social activities the foreigners living here know each other more or less well and solidarity was high. They passed on to me a French plan of evacuation in case of emergency. About a year ago, at the height of Rwanda Civil War the Canadian Embassy has proceeded to an orderly evacuation bringing most people to Kenya. The situation now seemed calmer, but no one can know what could suddenly happen. I did not encounter any French soldier in the street but we knew there was somewhere a French military base. They could intervene to protect French citizens, but how effective could it be in case of emergency because most of people did not have a telephone line, including me, forget about cellphone in 1992. 

  

The situation was what it was in the country, every Friday about 5pm most of foreigners came to the unique bar in the main street. And in the evening, by turn and by affinity different groups were formed. One of my favor places was the ‘Chess Club’ hosted by a Belgian professor. Usually most of his Belgian fellows where present. We all managed to stay there until the last moment possible before the curfew at 10pm. My house was just hundreds metres away so I did not use my car, however walking in the dark street back home at night in Butare gave me some unique feeling of challenge. Sometimes people do have the need to feel being in unsafe situation.

 

In April 1994, a horrible genocide has been carried out. Over 800,000 people, mostly Tutsi and some moderate Hutu, were massacred. Sadly, many of my Tutsi friends were decimated. How could I forget them?

 

Charles Phan Hoang  (Canada, 06 April 2014) 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

Việt Chí Đạo

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VIETNAMESE  WORDS             No 02

 

 

 

VIETNAMESE FIVE ACCENTS

 

sắc acute  ; huyền grave ; hỏi  low rising; ngã tilde ;  nặng heavy

Example: (la, no accent),  là,  lá,  lả,  lã,  lạ  

 

 

  1 một, 2 hai, 3 ba, 4 bốn, 5 năm, 6 sáu,7 bẩy, 8 tám, 9 chín, 10 mười

 

 Chuẩn bị  Be Ready;  Nghiêm Ready, Nghiêm lễ Salutation , Lễ Salute  

 











 

 

 

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World’s Most Extreme Railway | Mega-structures

 

 

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Romania, Village Life in Transylvania

 

 

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Learn English with Music - Yesterday By The Beatles

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Friday, March 8, 2024

POST 647 09Mar2024 Exercise The Lungs - Various pics and docs

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POST 647 09Mar2024 

Exercise The Lungs - 

Rwanda (part 2)

Various pics and docs

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    POST 647         2024                                 

  Linda’s Thursday Quotation   

 

 

 


Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift

 


        

        VIETNAMESE WORDS

 

 Việt Chí Đạo

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VIETNAMESE  WORDS             No 01

 

 

 

VIỆT , overcome, surpass

CHÍ ,  willingness , determination, inner-power

ĐẠO,  way

 

KIẾM,  The Sword        Vietchikiem , The Art of the sword

BỔNG, The Stick           Vietchibong, The Art of the stick

KHÍ, Inner-energy          Vietkhiphap,  The Way of inner-energy

 

 

 

  1 một, 2 hai, 3 ba, 4 bốn, 5 năm, 6 sáu,7 bẩy, 8 tám, 9 chín, 10 mười

  Chuẩn bị  Be Ready;  Nghiêm Ready, Nghiêm lễ Salutation , Lễ Salute  

 






 

 

 

 

 

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POST 646 – Mar.02,2024 /POST 149 (06 April 2014)

  RWANDA

Part 2

  

 

 

 

RWANDA

Charles Phan Hoang

 

 (continued from Post 646)

 

 Believing in his honesty or refusing his order, I now must make a decision. I kept my smiling face unchanged while scanning his face and the mind behind it. Then I decided to bring him where he wished to go. During this time of driving my head was boiling with different possible scenarios and reactions, but the basic rule remained the same in my mind: In case of bad situation, attack first with great surprise to the aggressor. Fortunately, after driving some more distance, I saw a military base ahead and my man express his thanks loudly when I stopped my car not far to the entry of his base: MERCI! MERCI!. Probably this was a word among a few words of foreign language he knew best.

 

In another occasion, on the road Kigali-Butare, a soldier at a checkpoint read carefully my Canadian passport then gave it back to me and let me  pass. However the irony was, probably without knowing how to read, he held my passport up-side-down pretending to check it until the moment he reached the page with me picture!

 

Butare was a small town with only one commercial street which grouped everything: one bank, one pharmacy, one photo shop, one hair salon, one restaurant, and one bar. The National University of Butare lay at the end of this unique street. This was a nice place, clean and quiet. Not far behind the university there was a large plantation of eucalyptus one can spend hours walking inside to enjoy the natural smell of eucalyptus and encounter different kind of monkeys and some wild animals, but there was no lion in it. People told me that elephants and lions are likely live in the eastern part of Rwanda, next to Tanzania. I often quietly came to this large plantation to do my physical exercises and enjoy admiring the beauty of nature until one Saturday morning I went deeper and deeper through the many rows of high eucalyptus and at some moment I realized that I have got lost and the plantation seemed now to be a kind of forest. In this terrifying forest the silence became menacing when one is alone. Then I heard the noises of monkeys climbing up the trees, and I perceived vaguely far away an animal running fast through a row of trees.

It was not big enough to be a lion and not small enough to be a wolf. So what could it be? I did not allow me any amount of time to guess the answer; I managed to climb up a nearby tree.

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Inside Norway's $47 Billion Floating Highway

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Best Romantic Latin Love Songs - Besame Mucho Collection


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 Learn English through story level 2 -The Truth -"

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