Chuc Mung Nam Moi! Happy New Year of the Ox! On Sat, 1/31, we held our second annual Tet Celebration at the Wok Village Restaurant in Ithaca. The event brought together families and the students from Vitco Cornell to celebrate this special holiday together. Unfortunately I was too preoccupied to take many photos or videos--here are a few that I managed to get.
The Vitco set-up crew (Thao, Ha, Hanh, and Nhung) preparing the traditional Tet snacks for the tables.
Mary to the rescue! Several of us struggled with setting up the screen--finally Mary figured it out.
Nga (Mary's daughter) and Jojo (our niece) did a wonderful job preparing the sign-in table and the kid's activity room, which was adjacent to the dining area. The girls really hit it off! Nga's is holding a box of Tet desserts that Huong P., a former Vitco member who is back in Hanoi, sent to us for the party. She also sent back special Tet ornaments for the kids (lower right corner of the table). Thanks, Huong--we missed you this year! The colorful masks and fans for the kids were donated by Ha and Nhung (thank you!). And the flower decoration on the right was donated by Kris S. (thank you and your great florist!).
Video 1, The set up crew hard at work!
Part 2 of Tet Celebration to follow!
2 comments:
Donna,
We are so sorry we missed the event. It looked so beautiful and nicely put together. We really wished we could have made it up. Please let us know when the summer gathering is and we'll do our very best to make it. Ava would love to meet Phoebe in person!
Susan, Rich and Ava M.
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