Part of my volunteer role here has been to help organise the participation of students from Soc Trang Province in the annual GTZ Mekong Delta drawing competition. We received approximately 3000 entries just from Soc Trang Province. From this colossal number of drawings, 20 were chosen as best representing this year’s theme of ‘biodiversity’. Last Sunday was the award ceremony for the winning 20 students. The award ceremony was held at our office, followed by a celebratory lunch at Restaurant 36 where, naturally, all the government staff and teachers escorting the students, participated in quite a few beery rounds of nam-moui/nam-moui (50% -meaning you should scull half your glass of beer) and tram-phan-tram (100%).
It was good to meet the kids who won the drawing competition and, while I’m not sure that they enjoyed the beer-drinking session, I hope that they enjoyed the award ceremony (featuring karaoke!) and the massive lunch afterwards (also featuring karaoke!).
From the 20 winning drawings from Soc Trang, 5 were chosen to be included in a GTZ 2011 calendar. So there will be another award ceremony later this year for all the students from around the Mekong Delta whose drawings will be in the calendar. This ceremony will be in Bac Lieu, but I’m not sure if Dan and I will be attending. If we do it will mean more karaoke, another big lunch and yet more beer-drinking. Can’t wait!
The 20 students from Soc Trang Province who had winning entries in the drawing competition. Dan and I are at the back left and Mr Xe - the Director of Kiem Lam - is towards the back middle.
Dan and I had our photos taken with nearly all the students and teachers from each of the seperate districts of Soc Trang. (I can't remember which district this girl came from.) Standing next to Dan is Mr Khuong - Dan's boss from Kiem Lam.
More winning students from another district. There were an awful lot of photos taken that day!
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