Ly Dai is 12 years old and he's about to begin the 7th grade. He sits in the front of our under twelve English class where he takes the prize as one of our most active English students. He's also one of our most active computer students and usually attends multiple computer practice sessions each week. He studies hard and plays harder, and he's one of these people who seems to enjoy everything he does immensely. The other day on one of my visits to the orphanage Dai yelled "What do you like?" at me and then without waiting for a reply yelled "I like green!". It's good to see that some of the English we're teaching them is sinking in.
Dai's been at Hoi Tu Thien for 3 and a half years now. He's from the same town of Co Do in O Mon that many of the children come from. His father still lives there and works as a laborer, but his mother has passed away. Dai says that he hopes to be a doctor in the future, because as he says: "Doctors can help poor people." In his free time, I sometimes see Dai playing marbles with other kids his age in front of the orphanage or making impressive constructions out of "lego-esque" building blocks.
