Tran Cao Bang Trinh, Profile

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Tran Cao Bang Trinh practicing in karate club (third from left) 

 Hiroko Fujimori (The Fountain staff)
"I really love this club, I would kill for my club." Tran Cao Bang Trinh says quickly without any perplexity.

A third-year Vietnamese student in APU,Tran is the leader of APU karate club. Tran wanted to do a martial art when she came to APU because she had done taekwondo since she was 15, and she wanted to do martial art in some forms. Karate was the only martial arts club with a teacher, so she decided to join it. 

Since she joined the club, she has gotten help from the other members  not only inside the club but also outside. For example, when one of the members became sick, all the other members went to see the member. Everyone helps each other, and she feels her club members are like family. 

In the karate club, the members have some strict rules which they should follow like the member cannot be absent from the practice without an academic reason. However, she doesn't think they are so hard and she also thinks her teacher really understands that the students have so many responsibilities. She says she can learn a lot of things not only about karate also about what is helpful for her life after going out society like manner and time management.

She thinks she will be absent from school to write her graduation thesis. She needs to decide the next leader of karate club and she also thinks she must tell the person how to manage the club and survive because the number of the member is getting small than before. 


"The good leader is someone who wants to be a leader and supports people." she said. Her recognition of a leader is a role which is not easy and needs the will that the person really wants to do it to be a leader. She thinks the leader must be able to care other people not only as the club members but also people and be able to sometimes be strict with them like 'Mom'. "I would like to support people and I want people to grow and that is meaningful to me." ....that is her hope as a leader.

Running before practice



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