Thai female student from Nghe An overcomes difficulties to enter the Military Science Academy

We met Lo Huyen Trang while she was busy preparing lunch for the whole family. The house where the family of four lives in Hoa Son village (Ta Ca commune, Ky Son district) is temporarily sheltered. In front is a small grocery store, behind is an empty space covered with black smoke-stained corrugated iron sheets used as the family's eating and sleeping place.

Taking the basin of water from the floor and pouring it out into the yard, Huyen Trang said that it had rained last night and the house was leaking so no one could sleep. In this Thai village, whenever there is heavy rain, everyone is nervous. The haunting memory of the flash flood in October 2022 has not yet subsided.

Mr. Lo Van Nam, Huyen Trang's father, shared that: His family has 2 children, although the situation is still difficult, both Trang and her sister are obedient, have good academic performance and especially know how to take care of their parents. As for Huyen Trang, thanks to her efforts, she was admitted to the Party while still in high school.

In the past, he and his wife had a comfortable life, but unexpectedly, incidents kept coming. In March 2022, the stilt house that he and his wife had saved up for years to build suddenly caught fire in the night, causing nearly 1.8 billion VND in damage. That same year, his parents both passed away.

The unexpected difficulties had a significant impact on Huyen Trang, a female student who had just left Ky Son to enroll at Nghe An Ethnic Boarding High School. “From the time I was in school until I entered high school, I was always an excellent student at the district and provincial levels. However, when I entered 10th grade, many things happened in my family that severely affected my psychology. There was a time when I was so depressed that I just wanted to drop out of school and go home to help my parents. That was why my academic performance that year decreased a lot. Luckily, thanks to my homeroom teacher who often came to the room to encourage me, I was able to overcome it,” said Lo Huyen Trang.

In the new learning environment, Huyen Trang's favorite subjects are English and Literature. However, according to this female student, keeping up with the foreign language skills of other students in districts such as Con Cuong, Quy Hop, Que Phong is not simple. Realizing that, in addition to class hours, Trang went online to research and study. "I had to practice pronunciation, relearn sentence structures and new words. Each time like that, I practiced over and over again, gradually becoming more confident. Later, when my family had a little more money, I asked my parents to enroll me in an IELTS course to improve my level. Thanks to that, my English score in the recent exam was also the highest among all subjects" - the new Thai student shared.

The day she received the notice of admission to the Military Science Academy with 27.72 points, Huyen Trang hugged her parents and cried. Trang said that seeing her parents work so hard for her, she did not want to add to their burden. Trang chose to take the exam to enter the Military Academy because she did not have to pay tuition fees, did not have to worry about too many other expenses, and it was also true to her dream.

“My only dream is to return to my hometown after finishing school to work and help my village. I also want to set up a charity club in Ky Son district in the future. That way, I can bring happiness to many disadvantaged people in the area,” Huyen Trang confided.