So this afternoon, I had a guy in my line today. We both stood there staring at each other for a minute or two saying, "Where do I know you from?" Then it hit me ( Read more... )

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Coming home from the post office this afternoon* I stopped to ask my friend Quynh for a ca phe da. Just at that moment, a very old man was just approaching her from the opposite direction ( Read more... )

As we say here.

One of my kids, who had obviously been coached by his gran, waited politely until I finished opening class, then said, "Teacher Sam!"

"Yes? What is it?"

"Teacher. Today is woman day. I wish you happy... ... ... wmffeenss day!"

He lost the plot there in the middle, but hell, he's fiveSeveral of my children, after failing ( Read more... )

In twelve hours the Notorious C (cynstress) will be arriving here in HCM City!

I'm to meet the lovely and amazing pescana's new friends over by the hotel to get in a taxi and pick her up from the airport -- when pescana came last month she arrived in the afternoon and it wasn't Tet eve, late night at the airport on Tet eve is a madhouse and cynstress seems to be a lot more ( Read more... )

I just checked flight status on pescana's Taipei - Saigon flight. It left Taipei five minutes ago and is currently on time.

In just two short hours she'll be here at the airport! SHE HAS LANDED!

By the time most of you in the UK wake up, and all of you in the US are abed, we'll be eating lunch and buying our tickets for Mui Ne.

eeeeeee!

It's the little things that can make or break your day sometimes ( Read more... )

One of the things that can drive you crazy here is just how damned long it can take to get things done. Or re-done, as the case may be.

Through careful planning, I was able to get my morning taken care of in an unheard of hour and a half.

10am Left home for the supermarket. Barrelled through supermarket like a Vietnamese lady -- knocking into and ( Read more... )

So, talked with Diep tonight about knitting bears for the orphans.

She loves the idea. She says that often when adoptive parents adopt a child from one of the orphanages, they donate toys to the children but that the administrators keep or hide the expensive or nicer toys because they're afraid the children will soil or break them.* Diep says the ( Read more... )

That's what I keep repeating to myself all through my Saturday/Sunday schedule. I break it down into segments. No thinking about afternoon classes before noon. No thinking about morning classes after 7pm ( Read more... )