My first Tet away from home

By Lê Bảo Hiền. For international students, cultural festivals can be the hardest moments to be away from home. A Vietnamese student describes her first New Year in the UK. I'm 16. I've been in England for five months, and I've just experienced my first Tet holiday (the Lunar New Year in Vietnam) away from home. In this foreign country, there wasn't much to remind me of Tet. Here, no one knows what Tet is, or if they did recognise the date, they just know it as "Chinese New Year". And, unlike previous years, I still had to go to college on Tet this year. More...