Word: brye
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...Harvard, Nguyen’s weeks are filled with activities within the Vietnamese community. In addition to BRYE, she is involved with her Buddhist Temple Youth group, the Vietnamese Student Association, a Vietnamese literature reading club and the Intercollegiate Vietnamese Student Association that spans New England. “I think that if there were more time in the day, I would definitely like to get involved in other ethnic organizations and get to learn about other cultures. Because there are only 24 hours in the day, I feel like I should be doing what I could for Vietnamese children...
Nguyen also wishes there were more Vietnamese volunteers in the BRYE program. Sometimes, she finds herself making calls for all of the BRYE programs. “Unfortunately, I’m one of the few who speaks Vietnamese, and I would feel guilty if I didn’t make the phone calls to the Vietnamese people because there would be no one capable of communicating with these families...
...students, Anna, had selective mutism and would only talk to people in the family or people she trusted, Nguyen says. Her regular school teacher had told Nguyen that Anna was excessively shy and only spoke in one-word answers, but then “one day at BRYE, Anna said, ‘Wait for me, okay?’ and it was a really big deal,” Nguyen recounts. She says it might have been the influence of being around younger people and more liberal teachers...
...Nguyen, a director of the summer program and a junior at UMass-Amherst who also went through the BRYE program, says that he remembers, “this one morning, when Anna’s mom came up to me and told me Anna was really anxious to have her drive her to BRYE because she missed her friends and Thanh...
Most of the students come from involved families, like Nguyen’s, that value education, which is part of what makes BRYE such a successful program, Nguyen says...