On 11/12, at Chu Văn An High School, the Hanoi Education and Training Department has inaugurated HASEF 2014-2015. After an exhibition day, on today’s morning 12/12, the judges have marked the projects and published the results. Contestants from Hanoi-Amsterdam High School for the Gifted have garnered two out of five First prizes.
Mr Eberhard van der Laan, Mayor of Amsterdam, is leading a business delegation to Hanoi and particularly to our second home Hanoi – Amsterdam took place today. This visit is of great significance, as before long Hanoi – Amsterdam High School for the Gifted will celebrate its 30th anniversary. On this occasion, let’s again take a look back at the history of the school, from the day it was founded with the help of our Dutch friends.
Name: Doan Minh Chau
Class: A1 13-16
Ever since I was born, the world as I know it is comparatively peaceful, the kind of peacefulness that has not long been kept, but long been fought to achieve; the kind of peacefulness that we now take for granted, but was something beyond all of our wildest dreams seventy years ago. Much as Anne Frank and Dang Thuy Tram wrote, hoped and prayed for liberty, they never had the chance to actually fill their lungs with the smell of it. The same as how we would never be able to thoroughly perceive the sense of perpetual pain and terror, and of death on our doorstep every day, every night.
WHEN WARFARE SHATTERS ALL MEANING
Name: Nguyen Tien Thanh
Class: A1 13-16
The characteristic of the French bilingual class is that besides studying social science subjects and the specialized one, we study Math and Physics in French. This creates an opportunity to broaden our knowledge, improve our ability to use the foreign language and above all, get ourselves ready for the study abroad in the future. We are very lucky to be taught by experienced and dedicated teachers. Among them is Mr. Pham Trung Dung – 11 French 2 class’ teacher of French Physics, the “unsung hero” of generations of French class students.
A revolutionist once said: "A good teacher is like a candle, a candle that lights the way for others". And to me, that person is Mr. Bùi Hoàng Đàn- the English teacher of our class.
There is a saying that I am especially fond of: “Just as the engineer is pleased when he sees his newly-built bridge and the farmer smiles when he sees his newly-tilled field, the teacher is happy when he sees his students grow up.” Just like the firm bridges built with the patience of the engineer and the verdant field tilled by the farmer’s meticulous hands, generations of Hanoi – Amsterdam High School for the Gifted gradually grow up after each and every lesson from their teachers. Teachers have given Amsers faith and fortitude to follow their dreams, and turn them into reality.
As an Amser majored in Literature of session 1, Mrs Dang Nguyet Anh, who is famous for a number of “strange literature exam topics”, has always witnessed changes and developments of the beloved school named Hanoi – Amsterdam for the past 30 years. Now, let’s have a conversation with Mrs Nguyet Anh to have a deeper understanding of Ams after 30 years of forming and flourishing!
“When your hair turns grey, mine is still black…”
He started teaching our class when his retirement was less than half a semester to come. An old teacher with pepper-and-salt hair entering our class right on Monday morning made us somewhat reserved, as we children then regarded “old” as “boring”: a teacher heading for retirement like him could not teach us interesting things.
