Nam's diaries: Day 49

Guess what I did this morning? The alarm clock rang at 6.30 am, I rolled in bed until 7 pm and then shower, get dressed and go downstairs to take the kids to school. Lately, Thach Thao has been coming to my door to call me to go with them and today was no exception.

After leaving the kids in school, Xuan and me went for breakfast to the lady next home, picked up my stuff at home and we head to the nail salon. It’s around 9 am when I arrive and the salon had just opened, the girls are still cleaning and putting everything in place. As it’s early they ask me if I wanna eat but I already had breakfast so I just make them company to the market where they buy their breakfast.

While they’re having breakfast I start practicing my flower petals and dots in order to do a drawing. I’m getting pretty good on it, now I just have to start practicing in nails. Did you know there are 60 different types of flowers that you can draw in nails? I didn’t know either and I guess I won’t have time to learn all of them. After breakfast, they order drinks and a cà phê sữa đá for me, when I want to pay they don’t let me again so I tell them that tomorrow it’s my turn to pay and don’t’ want any arguments.

In the meantime a client arrives and I stop my practicing to go see another type of flower. This takes time and it’s a precision job so I’m trying to absorb everything I can while she draws. If you could only see you would understand what I mean. Maybe just by talking you think that’s too much and it might look awful but you’re wrong, there are lots of drawing and ones more classy than others, in fact there are drawing for every taste. My next trying will be a skull… for my birthday! =)

Xuan brings me lunch and it’s so good! Inside my doggy bag I have spring roles, rice, fried egg and sweet mango. Chi Lam is the lady in the hooooouuuuuussssseeeee! And the funny part is that she even put inside the mango bag a barbeque stick so I could stick the mango. =) She thinks in everything!

After lunch I continue practice a little more a new flower with two colors until a fat lady and her son arrive and she wants her nails done. She has awful nails and it’s good that she puts acrylic nails otherwise she would have awful hands. Shouldn’t have talk this soon… she asks for her nails to be pointy instead of squared, as a normal person would do!!! Creepy…

Nails are done so now it’s time for the drawing session and I watch the teacher doing another type of flower I didn’t know. It gets really beautiful and I hope I’m as good as her one of this days. When the fat lady is ready, I grab my stuff and start walking home. It’s so good to walk around and see people, and traffic and mess everywhere. I stop by the supermarket and when I’m arriving to the dogs restaurants I hear a horn and it’s Xuan who gives me a lift the last 500 meters.

At home the kids show me their new motorbike toys and I seat with them while they have dinner. Then, it’s the grown up’s time so I leave Thach Thao and Phuc in my room watching Disney’s Dumbo.