Growing up, my parents always taught me to value the beauty of Vietnamese culture. Now that I have been a U.S. resident for roughly four years, it is still important for me to help spread and maintain my home country’s culture. However, there’s a piece of culture that I have yet to learn growing up, which is religion. I have always been amazed at how religion can help a person. Religion always has its way guiding people towards kindness and brings out the best qualities in them. Therefore, it is not just the religion I want to experience from California Baptist University but I also want to learn from it in order to improve myself as a better person. Moreover, I want to learn from the leaders who have religion as a guideline to care, help and protect other people in their community. During my trip back to Vietnam in 2015, I had gotten a chance to learn the great qualities from the religion leaders. I was invited join the Nhan Van charity foundation of local church, which provided health care service for underdeveloped areas. Besides my daily tasks of managing and categorizing medical supplies, I also took care of the patients while they were waiting for the doctor. It was a pleasure to not only serve them food, provide waters, discuss their circumstances and learn about their lives but also see …show more content…
I was assigned to teach Vietnamese to a group of school-age children, who were disobedient and stubborn. Worst of all, some of them fought and argued with each other during class. I knew that teaching these kids was a difficult task, but I wasn't going to give up. I learned from the monks at the temple a lot of praying verses so I could provide the kids activities to bond over something as simple as praying. I also tell my students stories about Buddha, where I also incorporated a lot of moral qualities so I could guide them towards kindness and