Day 51

After yesterday’s night, today I wake up very easy, the alarm clock is needed today but after a few bed rolls I get up, take my shower and get dressed to take the kids to school. Thach Thao and Phuc are already downstairs and there’s a fight to see who gets with the corner of the gate today. Phuc was the first one to arrive and Thach Thao wants to take him out of there but that’s not fair. Thach Thao gets in front of him and he starts crying so the solution is to take her out of his way. She gets very very angry with him and doesn’t want to talk to me until she goes for classes.

Then, Xuan and me go for breakfast and, while she does a couple of stuff at home I work on my blog. Around 9 am we start to get ready to go to the salon but never before our cà phê sữa đá. =)

Today, when I arrive to the salon, I’m informed today there’s no painting for me but the beginning of the training of acrylic nails and if you think it’s easy, it isn’t. My first tries where just weird nails but fortunately I’ve been a quick learner and around lunchtime I’m already able to do a pretty good acrylic nail. Xuan shows up with lunch and tells me I have to eat it right away, which I do it gladly. Soup and squid and veggies and flan pudding for desert: the sweet I was in need!

After lunch I watch the teacher making the acrylic nails to a lady and then Châu paints her nails with a Louis Vuiton pattern. This Vietnamese ladies are crazy… =)

In the end I go back to my acrylic nails and when the teacher thinks I’m good enough I start the manicure to the fake nails and that’s not easy neither, there’s a certain way to do it and if you do it to the wrong side that hurts not only the client but also the nails.

At 4.30 pm I’m too tired to continue so I call Xuan and tell her I’m walking home. When arriving almost near to the supermarket, there’s a horn horning and there are Phuc and Xuan to take me home. A stop at the supermarket, then at the lady who sells juices and finally at home.

When I connect Skype my father is online so lets have a chat! =) After a while my mum joins us and we talk about what I’ve been learning and what I’ve been doing in the past few days, because even if they read my blog everyday it’s different when you tell it in person.

Chi Mi and Phuc come to the office to call me for dinner and I say bye to my parents and go downstairs. We eat and then it’s time to go pick up Carlos to the airport, the kids are ready, we’re ready and we find a taxi almost at the home door. While in the taxi to the airport, the driver gets a call and his ringtone is gangnam style so Thach Thao starts dancing in the car and because she likes it so much, the driver even puts the video for her to see and dance again. With all of this action we arrive to the airport and Carlos had already landed and is almost entering another taxi when we call him from inside ours. All in, it’s time to head back home. The kids are so happy to see Carlos and I can only hear laughs from their mouths that make me happy.

At home, Carlos starts unpacking and everything I asked my parents to send me it’s there, of course: shorts, perfume, hair dye, creams and so on… thanks mum! =) While Carlos is unpacking my phone rings and it’s my dad who wants to watch a movie and doesn’t know how to get it so let’s go to Skype again and take him through the steps needed. When we’re done, Carlos and Xuan show up at the office door and they all talk a little bit then it’s time for my parents to go eat a pastel de nata and time to go to bed for us.

Night night everyone, don’t let the bedbugs bite!

P.S. – I don’t feel I’m in a cave but I love her voice and I love their song…