If I were a painter, I would depict my childhood through a vivid painting, filled with patches of color in various bright and dark shades. My childhood is closely tied to the mountains, the Lô River, and summer afternoons spent running freely across the hillsides. I was born and raised in a mountainous rural area of the beautiful country of Vietnam — a place that holds countless wonderful memories of a child growing up in the final years of the 20th century