Anyone else attended Ecole Progress in Vientiane Nahiado District?

On Feb 13, 1:37 pm, "ctj" nospam.com> wrote:

ctj,
I have never heard of such school name in Nahaidiew, Vientiane. Was it
an elementary/primary school? or you just made it up?

On Feb 13, 2:58 pm, "yi...@charter.net" charter.net> wrote:

ctj,
The school name in Lao would be Hong Hiene Kao Na, right?

Ecole Progress was a real school. Most of the lessons were taught in
French. I was awfully young so I can only remember a few students. There
was myself, Lee Lue’s oldest son, Dr. Kameng’s daughter and a few other
Hmong students.

As a kid, my nick name was Siemien, so the teacher had a special place for
me at that school. It was my little corner of the world where I was
required to stand an hour a day holding one leg up in the air, arms
stretched out grasping two books to the side. Those were some of the
heaviest books I’ve had to carry in my life. As I tired and my arms
would droop, I would receive a slash to the back of my leg; I think some
of the welts are still there. My finger nails have quit growing from them
being struck with a ruler every time I failed to answer a question
correctly; which was all the time. What memories!

On Feb 13, 3:44 pm, "ctj" nospam.com> wrote:

Chong,

I think vaajmoob paub txog Normal Ecole (Lao French school) back then
before 1975 in Laos.

ctj,

On Feb 13, 1:44 pm, "ctj" nospam.com> wrote:

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ctj,

You must be kidding for being such student. You are so intelligent
guy...

MS