Hi! After knowing your concern about the flood in Brazil it springs to my mind to describe for you a similar flood happening not long ago in Vietnam. People said that it was biggest flood in Vietnamese history. It rained continuously in 3 days pushing Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam and many Northern provinces submerge under water. I had to be inside my home for three days, however, I was still much luckier than many other people who couldn't go to work and had to live at home without electricity or enough. Some my friends even had to stay in their offices because they were unable to "swim" to their home. Worse still, my niece had to delay her wedding which is often considered as the most important event in each life for a week due to the destruction of flood in her village.
The influences of flood remained terrible until now. 95% of vegetables and rice died as the result of sinking too long under the water. Vegetables become the "luxury" products for Hanoian as its price has increased by two or even three times as much as normal. Besides, the flood also pushed many families into difficulty. For example, it takes the farmers in my hometown at least two years and a lot of money and effort to grow ornamental plants to sell on TET holiday but now all their plants die due to the disaster of flood, and most of them now become empty-handed. And all they have to now is to grow new plants and wait patiently for new harvest in next two years, however, no one can be sure that everything will be smooth! Above is my brief description of historic flood in Vietnam. I also would like to hear more interesting stories from both Vietnamese and Brazilian friends about the terrible floods happening unfortunately in our countries. Warm regards Nguyen Thuy ----- Original Message ----- From: "pln471" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ESL Podcast" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2008 2:17 AM Subject: [ESL Podcast] Re: Q.Week #40: How is the financial crisis affecting you and what are you doing about it? > > Hello Ed, > > Fortunately it hasn't affected me at all in all respects of my > life,and neither has it to those of the people I know around me. > If it has an impact on any of yours among us,hang on there. > I'm more concerned about the flooding in southern Brazil.Can anyone > from there tell me if you are safe and sound now. > > > On 26 Lis, 11:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> *Question of Week Number 40:* >> >> How is the financial crisis affecting you and what are you doing about >> it? >> >> Ed. >> Group Administrator >> >> Note: "Question of Week <http://groups.google.com/group/eslpodcast/>" is >> a >> weekly question made for you improve your English without concern about >> mistakes. >> No matter if you write short or long message, what matter is that you >> write >> and give your view point on the subject. >> Suggestion are welcome, send a email to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ESL Podcast". To post to this group, send email to: [email protected] or just reply this message For invite your friends, visit: http://groups.google.com/group/eslpodcast/members_invite Know how help us, visit this FAQ at: http://groups.google.com/group/eslpodcast/web/frequently-asked-questions -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
