Day 93

As always, at 6.30 am the alarm clock rings and Rancid’s Red Hot Moon starts playing. It’s my cue to get up, go to the shower, get dressed and ready to take Thach Thao and Phuc to school. While I’m going downstairs the kids and Xuan show up and when everything is ready we leave the house.

At school, Xuan buys a mermaid for Thach Thao and an Angry Bird toy for Phuc, they’re so happy with their new toys that go to classes with a smile and no crying. We leave them at school and head home to leave the motorbike and go for breakfast at Lady Bulldog but when arriving there she’s closed so we have to think on an alternative and the alternative is another lady next to the people who sell the bread. Xuan had never taken me there ‘cause she always thought I wouldn’t like the food but when we arrive there the food is great: meat pâté or similar to a pâté, some Vietnamese rolls, fried onions and veggies. It tastes really good and I don’t understand why Xuan thought I wouldn’t like this. Her final comment is “you’re really a Vietnamese now, you can eat everything” =) cool!

At home we get our stuff and head to the bank, Xuan takes care of her affairs and then we go to the post office to send a letter to aunt Margarida. When this is done we go to pick up Xuan’s new id card and finally, still before lunch, we go visit her grandaunt that’s very sick. We stay there for a while and I even close my eyes ‘cause, you know, you don’t understand a word what they’re saying, it’s really hot so your body just starts to shut down which means, at least for me, feeling very sleepy and rest my eyelids. When the visit is over, we go back home and have lunch.

We have hand made rolls, basically I have to do it and I’m not good at it at all, in fact, Chi Mi starts laughing at my first roll attempt. I don’t go down! I continue trying and eat a good amount of weird rolls made by me, when I’m tired of being mocked, I go for the soup. Chi Mi, Chi Lam and Xuan are talking with each other and at one point, Xuan tells me they think I’m thinner than when I arrived. Guess it’s a good think. I’d noticed my belly had reduced and, even if I still don’t have a sick pack, I’m going towards it. Vietnamese food is good for your health! =)

After lunch, Xuan stays at home and I go take care of some lady business, when I come back home, Xuan’s at the hairdresser and asks me if I wanna wash my head and I’m like “why not?”. While having my hair washed and my face pampered, I rest my eyelids again (what the hell is happening to me?!), I think I even snored a little bit (very ashamed right now)…

It’s time to go get the kids to school and the sky is turning grey very fast so we also go very fast to the school to pick them up. Thach Thao and Phuc are happy and we head home without any problems and no rain.

At home the kids go for the shower and I go straighten my hair while watching a TV show. Xuan’s in the kitchen talking with her mother and her younger brother about her monk brother (yes, big family that not even I can keep on). I’m also able to paint my nails with the hope that I can do some drawings tonight but my hopes go under water when Xuan calls me for dinner and tells me that after dinner wants to go for a walk. Don’t understand me wrong, please, I’m always happy to get out of the house and we eat and I get ready to go out.

We go to the touristy street, where Xuan buys a couple of stuff she needs and then we walk around for a bit. It’s good to do exercise and I think my legs are in need of that, I can be thinner but my legs don’t seem to think the same… after our walk we jump on the motorbike and go to see how the movement is at District 1 center. Nothing new, tourists walking, rich Vietnamese at expensive coffee shops, motorbikes and cars going up and down… the normal stuff. We head back home when there’s no more to see.

I feel the need of my shower, some moisturizing on my skin and the a/c on, which I do as soon as I’m in my room. My p-jays also dressed and so I jump into bed and pres splay on my TV show list. Once more, I fall asleep while watching a TV show and leave the computer on, just to wake some minutes before midnight, turn the computer off and go back to sleep again…

Night night everyone!

P.S. – one of the greatest festivals of the planet had place in April, Coachella, and one day I’ll go there, I know it… while I don’t go, here some of this year's performances, or at least my favorites! =)