Dear Mom and Dad,
How are you doing ? I hope everything is alright.
I m sorry for not writing any e-mail recently. I have been through a very stressful time preparing for my graduation test and finally, it's done last week.
While waiting for the results and graduation ceremony, i m thinking of a next step and i know what i wanna do for now. I want to go to Africa to do volunteering job in the next 2 months. I will be back on August.
I know you might think it 's not a good idea because:
1. It might be dangerous for me because Africa is famous as a undeveloped place where many people died because of serious diseases. Well, it 's true that Africa 's medical system is not modern enough to cure diseases like yellow fever and i might have a chance to get a serious disease when i go there. However, that 's the reason why whoever apply for a visa to an African country is required to have vacination certificate for many kinds of diseases included yellow fever. As long as i have vacination 10 days before entering Africa, there would not have any possibility for me to get containminated with these kind of diseases. Furthermore, i have check with many volunteering associations to Africa and found there 's none of their volunteerer got diseases after vacination. There 's only 1 case of yellow fever because that guy came to Africa only 3 days after got injected.
For common sickness, i have prepared all the needed medicines. Plus , our volunteering group 's purpose is to check health condition for the children in Africa, so there will be more dotors in our group than students like me. If i get some kind of sickness, I will have them to cure right away.
2. You might also be worried about this wont get me any money but i have to spend my own money and i dont have that much. Yes, i m temporary jobless and have no income, however, all the trip 's expenses like transportation cost, foods, accomodation... are all covered by the association. I dont have to spend anything but shopping money and you know that there 's nothing much to shop in Africa.
Thus, for the last couples of months, i mostly studied for my graduation test. I havent gone out much with my friends nor gone shopping. So i have saved some money which i think it would be more than enough for me within 2 months in Africa.
Therefore, dont be worried about money issue. I have considered this carefully before making decision.
Besides these above concerns, I believe that i would learn some valuable lessons about life, about the actual world and it would be very helpful for my carreer later all. You know, the more you go out explore the world, the more valuable lesson you learn.
I hope you could understand and support my decision. I ll be very gratefu.
Thank you very much!!
Love you all,
Minh.
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