Once following a friend of mine to Hoi An (Quang Nam province), I was quite impressed with the communal house of Cam Thanh commune. From outside, the building has a bold characteristic of the image of a Vietnamese village with a row of upright areca palm trees. In particular, the structure of sturdy wooden columns and bamboo frames, and available natural materials make visitors feel close to their homeland.

“People love storks, storks come. Storks love people, they come back”, I read it when watching animated footages of hundreds, even thousands of storks chirping to call each other to fly back to the good land. Storks like friends.