Every year, on the occasion of Vietnamese Teachers’ Day Ceremony 20/11, the Faculty of Pharmacy often hosts a number of arts and letters events and festivals to honor the contributions of its teachers to education. The ceremony is an opportunity for teachers and students to chat and review the Teachers’ Day traditions. Teachers often share unforgettable happy and sad memories from their teaching career as well as classroom moments. This is also an opportunity for the Dean’s Committee to evaluate every aspect of the Faculty’s activities during the past academic year while also rewarding outstanding individuals and groups who have made significant contributions to the development of the Faculty of Pharmacy in various areas. The Faculty occasionally changes the way of celebration by organizing a picnic or leisure trip that includes art and sports activities to enhance the solidarity of its members.

This year’s Vietnamese Teachers’ Day 20/11 is different because the Covid -19 pandemic remains complicated. Under this circumstance, it is impossible to hold a face-to-face ceremony as in previous years. Fresh flowers, exciting musical performances, face-to-face meetings, and handshakes and hugs will not be part of this year’s ceremony honoring the Faculty of Pharmacy’s teachers. Nonetheless, the ceremony is still meaningful. Since the first day of the week, many students and alumni have called or texted to greet and wish their teachers good health. Due to social isolation, they are unable to hand teachers fresh flower bouquets and instead send them affectionate electronic cards with sincere hearts and respectful attitudes. Even though they are just small gestures, remembering the teachers with such care is a precious spiritual present from the students, a meaningful source of encouragement that inspires the Faculty’s teachers to become more attached to their careers, and to want to dedicate more to education.

For teachers of the Faculty of Pharmacy, perhaps the most meaningful and valuable gift that students send to their teachers is the desired results they have achieved in their studies, their daily development in learning and in life, their efforts to overcome difficulties to accomplish their goals and make their dreams come true and so on.

Virtually celebrating the greatest ceremony of the education industry in the same general joyful atmosphere as other organizations, the teachers and students at the Faculty of Pharmacy also hope that the Covid-19 pandemic will soon be repelled so that they can meet face-to-face in the familiar lecture hall. Let’s wish the Faculty of Pharmacy a lot of health, faith, love and optimism in the journey ahead.

Translated by MA. Phan Thanh Thuy