There, we were taught how to make the “Vegetarian Bamboo Noodle Soup” by the chef there. The soup she made was really good. I am eagerly looking forward to this Thursday when we come back and learn how to make “Vegetarian Curry”, hungrily for more.
After lunch, Hillary and I went to see the superior monk. Again, I was really surprised since he is so happy when he saw us there (he smiled in a shy way all the time talking to us just like we are filming him or doing sth like that).
I think that this place is really in the urgent need of help. As I know that he had some problem with another orphanage in CuChi (where he had founded it) that he decided to leave that place, moving up here and restarting everything. The land, which was told to be donated by someone, is a really big place with lots of trees around. At first, I had a strange impression of this place and its linkages to the central Highland of Vn. this place is so deserted surrounded by thousands of rubber tree from young to matured. the living condition there is still in a big shortage. since it establishment day, the total amount now has been around 100 people including children, adults, orphans, disables, etc.
Like I have mentioned above, this place is so deserted, the road in is in an extremely bad condition. this has created certain difficulty for insider and outsider to commute. The superior monk has set up a full project to turn this place into sth like a small resort which will include some houses for those who donate and want to stay over night to hang out with people there, newer houses for people at the village, and sth like houses for old people who have spent years donating for the village. we were discussing that and Hillary seems to be interested in this project. I myself also think this is a good project for the village to attract more visitors and do donation to help people there. As he said that this project may be finished in the next 10 – 15 years. besides lacking donation, he also uses much money for the basic accommodation, food and curing for people here. Thus, there is just a little extra money saved for this project or for repairing anything there. Even the basic nice road system is also considered a hard thing to accomplish for people to hang out around.
Well, I really this is a better place for doing charity than any other places I have been so far.
the path there is really badPlace: LangTre (Bamboo Village), LongKhanh town, DongNai province
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