Today’s swimming pool day! As usual I get up at 6.30 am and get ready
for this crazy day. My backpack has my book (I’m hoping I’m able to read a
little bit), my swimming suit, my pareo, sun blocks and I guess it’s enough,
no?
The kids are ready so Carlos and Xuan take them to the school while
Chi Lam and me walk. At the school the mess is installed, there are excited
kids everywhere, talking very loud and just wanting to go to the bus. After I
say goodbye to Carlos I go upstairs to be Phuc’s company and so I’m received
with lots of giggles from the kids and mothers looking at me wondering what the
hell am I doing there.
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It’s time to go to the bus and it’s amazing how the security conditions don’t exist! Basically you have a normal bus with 3 or 4 kids seating in the same seat, grown-ups standing up and talking and the trip goes like this until our destination. I’m amazed… but this didn’t prepare me for what I was about to witness…
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It’s time to go to the bus and it’s amazing how the security conditions don’t exist! Basically you have a normal bus with 3 or 4 kids seating in the same seat, grown-ups standing up and talking and the trip goes like this until our destination. I’m amazed… but this didn’t prepare me for what I was about to witness…
At Dam Sen park the kids get organized and we start entering. Lots of
singing, smiles, kids running, many names called so they go back to their
place, you know, a kids’ school trip on its best! When we arrive near the pool
there are so many kids screaming and throwing water and so many grown-ups
dressed inside the pool as well… this is a vision I wasn’t expecting! I go put
my swimming suit and head to the pool so I can help Chi Lam, who’s all dressed
- trousers, shirt and jacket. The kids continue screaming and jumping and
swimming and who knows me knows this is my worst nightmare…
Around 10.30 am Thach Thao and Phuc come out of the pool as they need
to eat and get dry ‘cause Thach Thao has been sick. They eat before the other
kids and then the others start to arrive and get ready for lunch. When everyone
is ready and had eat it’s time to head back to the school and after a big
tantrum by Phuc we decide to go all on the same bus, Chi Lam, Thach Thao, Phuc
and me. Thach Thao jumps in my lap and wants to sleep but this kids in the back
seat don’t stop kicking my seat and I’m starting to be really pissed off, in
fact all I want to do is get up and slap them twice so they stop… or at least I
wished I could do that because in reality what I really wanted to do was
something completely different… it’s no secret I’m not fond of children, yes I
don’t like them, there’s couple of them that I do, like Thach Thao and Phuc or
César and Teresa or the kids of my friends but I don’t have any patience for
kids that are not related to me, in fact I wish they’d leave me alone so I
don’t have any contact with them.
Fortunately the bus ride to school is quick and when we arrive there,
Xuan is also arriving to take the kids home. We all jump on the motorbike and
head home, yes, all of us: Phuc, Xuan, Thach Thao, me and, finally Chi Lam.
Five people on a motorbike, a pity I couldn’t make a photo of it… =)
At home I have lunch and then head to my room where I prepare my nails
stuff. I spend the whole afternoon painting and when I’m called to go to
dinner, I pack everything and think to myself it’s enough for one day…
After dinner, I watch a couple of TV shows, then I shower and head to
bed. I’m starting to feel sick so pill on my throat and lights off…
Night night peeps!
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