600 Date: 4/16/2013 Strengthening the program to meet 21st-century high school students' needs tops list of SYA's organizational goals.]]> Tue, 16 Apr 2013 05:00:00 GMT ID833-1293-9352 Date: 9/11/2012 SYA is pleased to welcome our new Assistant Directors of Admissions!]]> Tue, 11 Sep 2012 05:00:00 GMT ID833-1070-8152 Date: 12/27/2011 Several months ago, I stepped off of a plane from California and into Ha Noi. I had no way of knowing what lay ahead, but I began to create a home for myself in a country whose language I did not speak and where my blonde hair stuck out like a sore thumb. A few weeks after I arrived, I was given an internship working at the Lang Hoa Binh (Peace Village) in the Thanh Xuan district of Ha Noi. [Read more from SYA Vietnam student Anna Leah Eisner]

]]> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 05:00:00 GMT ID833-960-6339 Date: 12/22/2011 This monthly blog chronicles the students’ lives in Viet Nam outside the SYA classroom. A process of sharing and peer-editing in their English class precedes all posts thereby creating an individual and collective narrative. Travel-journalist Tom Miller said, “The finest travel writing describes what's going on when nobody's looking.” May these young writers seek out and find their moments to see, with new eyes, what no one else sees. May they write their stories with sensitivity and passion. And may you, our readers, enjoy imagining their Viet Nam. [Read more]
]]> Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:00:00 GMT ID833-955-6338 Date: 12/6/2011 This is a blog created by Becky Gordon, an English teacher in SYA Vietnam. As she writes in the introduction, “this monthly blog will chronicle the students’ lives in Viet Nam outside the SYA classroom.]]> Tue, 06 Dec 2011 05:00:00 GMT ID833-924-7358 Date: 11/18/2011 In mid-October, SYA Vietnam students took an educational field trip that covered many aspects of Vietnam’s culture — economy, anthropology, arts, religion, and history thus effectively making the country their classroom. Read more.]]> Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:00:00 GMT ID833-896-5909