Tam and Cam (A Vietnamese fairy tale) Once upon a time, when the rainy forest was still covering most of the wild landscape and the wild animals were still a scare for people, there was a three- member family living in a countryside.They were an older sister named Tam who was so kind and quite, a stubborn youngest and Tam's stepmorther, or Cam's mother, who was always so talkative. Day after day, their neighbourhood just heard the cry of Tam when her stepmother had been yelling at and whipped her for some tiny reasons as "Why don't you let the dust covering the door,Tam?","Why do you always nod off when you haven't finished your mission?". If one day she couldn't found out any reason to punish her, she could be falling asleep tenderly. Once day, the stepmother called them and odered: - "The sky is so pure and cool, not too shiny or hot", she opened her arms and closed her eyes and continued:" I can feel many flocks of fish hanging out slowly outside in the river. Mmm.. Mmm... So you all can take the fish net and go to the riverside. Someone who can collect more fish will receive my special gift". Then, two girls followed her mother's oder and run out quickly. The flocks of birds on the tree jumped from the branch to other, the lazy clouds seemed like nodding off in the sky...They all wanted to hide the heat from the sun burning anything underneath. A short time later, they were at the riverside. Tam hurried up to put the net into the river while her younger sister was lying on the grass and sang la la la and falling into sleep. In the evening, Tam rocked Cam and waked her up. Opening slowly her lazy eyes, she realised it was too late to catch the fish. -"Oh my god, you had killed me,sister !".She shouted out aloud and then she cried. Looking at Tam's basket which was full of fish, there was a dark thought appearing in her mind: "Why the fish in her basket can be mine? No, It's mine.It has to be mine." Then,she steped to and smiled at her sister. -Oh,no sister, you see that your cloth is so dirty and smell. Mother will punish you unless you have to take bath and wash your cloth now. Don't mind about your fish, I will help you keeping it" -Really??? So please keep it, Cam. After that, Tam run to the river quickly and washed all the mud out of her body. That was like an opportunity for Cam to act her crime. She hurried up to pour all the fish from Tam's basket to hers. Then, she run back home and leave Cam alone with her empty basket.

How excited I was! I can remember exactly how I was excited that I could speak either my first English words or some simple sentences. I jumped like a baby bird and shouted aloud "apple", "mum,I like an apple", "give me some apples,please" when I came back home...My mum looked at me tenderly and held me in her arms and whispered to me a suggestions in Vietnamnese: "you have to try your best to learn hard.I hope many years later,when you will be mature, you can get an intersting job, you can fly to anywhere you want and take me and your dad and your private family to many places in the world". I smiled at her and gave her a nod of assent.

Today is a beautiful day!!! Yes,it is I really happy because i found this website which is so interesting and useful,especially for me.First,i'd like to tell you about my English learning process from the starting day to this time...may be It has been happening for a long time from beginning...I started learning Enlish in my primary school when T was just an eight or nine years old.That day was really poetice for me.Every new world in my lesson came from something so familiar to my life,an apple,a ball,a car,a door...i slowly spoke my name,talked about every member in my family,my pet...with my Donale duck voice but it's really a precious memories of mine...{continued}