SIFE 4

Time passed slowly this month because I have been even more eager to learn from everyone I have met! WEW was today!
Highlights:
1. I got back to Richard who is the significant Daddy entrepreneur for me.
2. Brother broke up and a whole series of histories.
3. Submitted my transfer applications to Brandeis and Dickinson
4. Linh's decision to go to Michigan State University
5. Yanjie's Singapore life
6. Easter with Vi and Mr. Hoa.
7. Easter with Dr.Couch, Duy, Anna, Doan, Ron, Ruby and Vi
8. Dr.Couch and music Theory
9.Dr. Couch and Vietnamese
10. International Food Night
11. The fastest election I have ever attended at IEC.
12. Women ensemble practice and the good ear.
13. Calls with co Cuc, co Le Dung, thay Eric Hui, Ms Kwan
14. Solji yeu thuong and the UKULELE and the music soul
15. Larry Mc.Donald and the guitar mind
16. Vietnamese with Dr.Couch
17. the mallets with Terry
18. The memory management
19. The dance phrase with Kess
20. Sarah and the wonderful smile :)
21. Andres + my plausibility.
22. Quang and Chopin
23. Hung and France application
24. Elisa Neckar and the writing mind
25. Dad and Mom's love
26. Little things do add up!!! the money I spent was huge!!! aaaa!!!!

I feel the feeling of doing lots of things :))) quality things in a month.
I had schedule and ppl around me to support

SIFE 3

One month nearly passed since the SIFE 2 entry. It starts to be my Mom's birthday according to Vietnam Time.
SIFE is going well. We have got 4 speakers: Cindi, Burni, Sally and Citlali (all ends with /ee/ ) :D
Sally and Kirk(indirectly) give me the chance to dress cultural clothes and be something like a model at the fashion show event on April 19th. Now Nate and Lenel would be designing the flyer.

Transferring? I have contacted and sent in several documents to Dickinson Transfer. In 10 days' time, all should be in my file. So that it will not be a rush. In about 1 and a half month, I will know the result.

I have been working not hard for music lessons. I think I start choosing and focusing on more right things so that I don't waste time.

SIFE: Who tweaked my perspectives?
- Eleiner from the Foreign Language Department
- Professor Ronald Foster
- Nate, Kirk and Emily
- Stephanie
- Jamie
- Mi Xoi
- Larry Mc.Donald
- Terry Smirl
- Jamie Hoffman
- Wang Xin
- Yanjie
- Sally Misalko
- Citlali
- Quang Yugi
- Vi
- Duy William
- Duy Anh Andres
- Jesmine Chung
- Mdm Loh
- Stephanie
- Tung Ta
- Doan Lai
- Tien Anh hatman
- Julia
- Sophia
- Ed
- Ellen Barclay
- my dance instructor.
- Elisa Neckar

The one month stretches over the Spring break so I got more time to ruminate. I am into SIFE too and feel like it more. If I transfer, I will continue? I am not sure yet. It's just something I am for. I feel this.

I learn to see different things at the same time: mind, body and spirit. Things got clearer.

What would come next?
- Writing 2 trasfer essays
- Waiting for financial statement to fill in the forms
- Do literary critiques of other composers' work

Prepare to go home? To say bye to all my life-chagers :D I miss you already :)

SIFE 2

Monday, first day :D haha I love it for the first time. It seems that I am a better, more responsible :)

- Went to Writing Seminar 8-10am, got back my narrative essay. I had known the result before she returned to me because I was not ready for that morning :). She was so kind, understanding and will meet me next Monday 27 Feb to discuss my essay :)

- Back for doing laundry and contacting for SIFE. I keep calling and was not clear in my voice at all. I should have warmed up my voice before talking on the phone. :D But things go quite well. At least I could set up an appointment with Sheila on this Wednesday, February 20th. I will meet Nate at 1:30pm on Wednesday at main gate Shattuck so that we will go together. :)

- The most crazy thing is that my violin lesson was awesome. Jamie talked lots about the Zombie Ballet Show he watched yesterday. hahahah What's up with him??? He can be a perfect zombie :)))) Not much new thing but one thing, if I use the upper half of the bow, I will use my forearms only!!! :D Good. That's enough clarification for my practice next week. Now I need to think of the bow as respective to the different parts of my arms and hands...

- Terry is sick :(( Really sad!!! How re you right now!!!! I hope you get well soon my American Dad :) hahah.  I have been reading on Inversions of chords and you won't come tmr??? :( so sad!!! But still hoping :) u will.

Lastly, Nate!!! You re awesome okay? :) you found one speaker already!!!!

Okie, I'm pretty worried with my astronomy test :) but i love it so there would be no mess :)
What I have to be more aware of now are:
- People's names :))) I mixed them up so messy!!! Kathy should be laughing at me grugh coz I was telling her about Caroline who is actually not at all from Women's Centre. It should have been Sheila. I have to strongly associate the name with the concepts so that i don't get lost!!!
- Note book for meeting/appointment taking notes: Katy has a good habit of taking notes and asking questions. By that way, she can be really active in talking. I was so passive :( :D
- How to talk to organizations: I was to seek participants who won't have to pay a buck and yet I said "Can you help us?" LOL she was right!!! Must be "I 'd like to talk to you regarding the free participation that we are providing" :D
- What else, speakers thing :) I should use Richard Branson's strategy :) haha the COKE and the PEPSI one.
Hands down!
Thanks for dragging me in really tight for this project :) Like it a bit more :D
Jennifer
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SIFE

Morning starts with great breakfast and now I'm so happy to put things here :D haha. Businesses have been bad lately due to procrastination and bad habits. I have the habit of delaying: not calling important people, not sending emails, not meeting people for the the project.

In such time, I often avoid and call others instead. I call friends, Cuc Tay, mu Lun, Duy Khung Long Lon, Andres, Trung, Yanjie anyone that I just want to talk to most of the time. Such longing for emotional satisfaction, I was unable to control. Hence things have been further delayed.

The project sounds very simple: To organize a conference for women who want to be entrepreneurs.
I have never organized such thing before. Indeed, I was in some sort of organizing the ASEAN DANCE 4 years ago but I was not serious at all, I quitted rather than not doing anything as a member there. Now I am the project leader? Damn, I should have delegated this position to other member in SIFE. But I did not! I was just mistakingly thinking that: Because I am the one who got the grant for the school, I must be leader! Wrong. That was a wrong way of reasoning. I have never had any experiences!!! Huhu!

But Micheal was right! If I don't do this, when can I have another chance to lead a project? So good! Really :D I have been so irresponsible, so disorganized, so what-ever. Now, I feel like I'm better a bit :D

To go straight into the business discussion:
- I went to meet Dolores today, whom I delayed for 2 weeks just to knock at the door and to talk. I was so bad!!! She suggested that finding speakers should be the first thing we should have done and not setting the date!!! O man why can't even thought of that!!! Thank you Dolores :) You have a very low voice, firm and nice. Haha. Really effective leader you are :D

After that, I went to meet Claire, the PR Head of my school! A terrible funny meeting. I had looked at her picture clearly, thoughtfully before meeting her to make sure I can guess about 60 percent of how she would be like :)) But damn it, she was opposite to what I had thought! She was not gentle and down-to-earth at all. She was cold, trying not to understand me!!! Sad!! But I was not sad. I still like to tell her with all my best about my project. Part of her coldness was because I was not clear about what I want from her, about what my project is, about the target audience and all that.

Then as Dolores refered, I went to Student Affairs Office to look for Katy Lanius. She was in a meeting. What! I was not patient enough to wait. I left a note there, saying that I would email her too. But now see, I'm writing on this blog instead of emailing.

Then I went to Student Organization Hub, I met JOSH who also knew KIRK :)) they look dumb together but so funny and harmless. It's ok. They are so nice, easy to talk to, understanding. No wonder, I feel so happy saying bye and walking out. Haha.

Finally I rushed to Kathy's office. She was sick today so I could not deal with all the naming/I20/Passport issue.

Not tired at all actually. I was enjoying the wind and snow on the road.

There are lots of things I knew but did not follow and other things I don't know. the Dolores thing was new. The my wrong human judgemnet thingy was new. The thing (Dolores also told) about busy entrepreneurs planning ahead...all that was both new and old :D

Anyways, I feel like really good after what I have gone through :D

Business practices, I think quite new thing to experience :D
Besides, I still got violin and guitar practice. Really nice. :D

I dont know why I suddenly get so dumb in my writing here. But it's ok to be dumb most of the time, coz my friends are still around to help :D haha

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Damn I get lost now. So lost man!!!!

ECONOMICS and BUSINESS

Chapter 1 in my Business 101 Course is "Taking Risks and Making Profits within the Dynamic Business Environment". The chapter consists of most basic concepts: business, goods, services, entrepreneur, risk, revenue, profit, loss, standard of living, quality of life, social business, non-profit organizations, out-sourcing, in-sourcing, stakeholders...

Goals included:
1. Describe the relationship between profit and risk and show how businesses and nonprofit organizations can raise the standard of living for all.
- What are the possible risks that we may have in building a kindergarten?
- How we can avoid the risks? 

2. Compare and contrast being an entrepreneur and working for others.
- As entrepreneur, we must understand our employees so as to treat them well
  
3. Analyze the effect of the economic environment  and taxes on businesses
- For now, we have decided to build a kindergarten in Vietnam, Hanoi. Thus, we must be aware of what is happening in Vietnam?
  
4. Describes the effects of technology on businesses
Business may include good IT support. 

5. Demonstrate how businesses can meet and beat competition
- Focus on communication and product quality 

6. Analyze the social changes affecting businesses
- Since  

7. Identify what businesses must do to meet global challenges including war and terrorism
8. Review how past trends are being repeated in the present and what those trends mean for tomorrow's college graduates. 

WELCOME!!!

I feel happy writing this first entry. My brother, Andres and I have recently found out our common love: KIDS. He had initially wanted to work for UNICEF in our country, Vietnam, but right now they seems to accept no more applications ( I am not very sure about this).

What is important is that we are on our right track. In the short run, Andres will work in Vietnam for 1 or 2 years after his graduation this year. This is a good way to gain experiences I believe. At the same time, I am majoring in Finance at Carroll University. Here in US, I am enjoying lots of freedom regarding learning, working and living conditions. I have been practising self-discipline and I know that it'll be amazing kind of freedom. In the long run, Andres will go UK for his master as he discussed with me. I will go France/German/UK too for exchange program. Such overseas opportunities are priceless, so precious that we just cannot lose.

And with such excitement about our future plus that I am having first day of college tomorrow already, I would like to announce the birth of "WE WILL BUILD A KINDERGARTEN" blog. On this blog, I think I would include my thoughts on very basic economics as well as business concepts that I am learning in my college. Aside from this first ray of decision, I predict that many things will come. But don't worry about disorganization! Things will not mess-up here because I will catergorize them excellently.

Thanks for visiting our blog! Remember: WE WILL BUILD A KINDERGARTEN! Please if you are passionate about any of my ideas, don't hesitate to discuss it with me here or contact me at takethetoutofcant@gmail.com or facebook me at jenniphoviet@facebook.com I believe ideas connect people and so I hope to meet you, talk to you about the ideas we have, the stars we share and the hope we nurture.

Sincerely,
Jennifer Vu Minh Huong