Word: brye
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...week, she’s not lugging her laundry or seeking home-cooked refuge from the dining hall. Instead, she brings lesson plans and games to share with her students who meet at the Grover Cleveland Middle School, just as 12 years ago a Boston Youth Refugee Enrichment (BRYE) volunteer...
...Dorchester, 6-year-old Tony runs up to Nguyen and grabs her hand to hold all the way to the Vietnamese American Community Center, where he works on his homework after school. As Tony, one of Nguyen’s students from the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) BRYE program, showed off his artwork and read aloud “Five Little Pumpkins,” Nguyen whispers, “He’s definitely one of my favorites, even though we’re not supposed to have favorites...
...Nguyen was in Tony’s position. Three days after her family moved to Boston from Vietnam, Nguyen’s parents enrolled her in BRYE’s eight-week summer program. “The moment I set foot in this country, I was introduced to BRYE,” she says. “I remember being at the bus stop when the van came...
Nguyen went for sleepovers in the Quad and went canoeing on the Charles with her “big BRYE sib,” Trang Tu ’94. When Nguyen was in third grade and moved from bilingual to regular school, she “felt like such a loser,” but Tu would call her and encourage her. “When I was eight, I knew I wanted to be exactly like her,” Nguyen says. “She still inspires me now. I wouldn’t flatter myself...
...main reasons Nguyen chose Harvard was for its strong community service programs and because of people like her senior counselors and big sib. Nguyen says that her family had always considered Harvard for her before moving to Boston, but that being in BRYE let her get to know the type of people at Harvard, “people who are really caring, great with kids and ambitious...