Interests:...boys with guitars....boys who can rhyme n dance...boys who look good with a surf/skate/snow/-board...spongers welcome...no experience necessary...apply within. Expertise:...just ur neighbourhood right coast surf bum/hurricane hopeful + average partEEE girl who excels in RoCkIn' oUt!...music + mags + subPOP culture junkie, fashion label whore + globetrotter extraordinaire...
...other areas of expertise includes...Bikini bartending, fun with polaroids, dating dependent artsy tall boys with no self-esteem, matching my clothes to my shoe collection, wearing knee-high fuk me boots, pimpin' it, H-to da Hip Hop, dancin queen, puttin lame-ass men in their place,....and perhaps the mechanical reproduction of photonic collisions with silver halide...AKA PhoTo.
I can not stress enough how thankful I am for technology...and for wireless internet. It keeps me sane...and connected to some part of a world that I belonged to about 3 months ago....
Same ol' same ol'...teaching English...dealing with stubborn nuns...forcing myself to swallow lunch...and trying to get VNese people to see that sexual harassment is a social problem in their society. Other than that...on the wkends...there's only 3 things to do: eat, shop (mostly shoes), book yourself a whole day in a spa...it's getting boring.
On the 22nd I leave for a 2 weeks trip up north with Sister Pascale. Traveling thru this country for the 2nd time...but it'll be at a slower pace...in a van...and off the tourist path. Visiting the many different sites of our projects of social work...it should be good...and exhausting.
It also seems that I somehow managed to pull a Uyen-My and acquired myself "an admirerer" u could say....prolly soon to be stalker. We'll see if I'm as good as Uyens..hahhaa. Dude...I frickin' met the guy yesterday afternoon at coffee with Uyens (his company does the interior for Uyen's new boutique)...and by 2:44 AM I was receiving texts like "Although I do not know your feeling but I could not stop all my honest words from my heart. Those are I really want to be with you. I love you more than I can say. Please call me anytime when you feel lonely and need me." WTF??! YEeeeaaaah....ok buddy...how many thousand times did I drop the word BOYFRIEND all afternoon??! Geeezze...VNese men and their lack of the understanding of the word "love"...they drop it like it was the F-bomb...every girl they see..."I love you!!"
I have no respect for any of the men in this school. I'm about to slap this one asshole of a teacher...i swear. I mean honestly...what r they gonna do...fire me? OK...it's not like they pay me.
So since Aug. 7th, I've been traveling between PL and the city on the wkends. I teach 3 days a week...sometimes 2...the nuns still piss me off, but i learn to let it go. I tell myself everyday...only 4 more months...and such...
Oh..and it's my B-Day..I forgot...until Alan called me this morning...and my girls sang Happy Birthday in broken English to me in class this morning....it was sweet. I'm old....the big 23.
I'm sure Uyen will tell u all about it...but 2 days ago these assholes yanked her purse while we were on the road...on a motorbike. My girls fell off their bike...got a scraped up...Elsa fainted on the side of road. Exciting stuff...
All in all we lost 2 cell phones...and some money....luckily no important documents or credit cards. I'm just glad no one was badly hurt...
Was that ok MyMy? I'll post again in like a month ok?
I've been working a lot. Traveling between PL and Ho Chi Minh. The school is coming together...although the program is still a mess. The nuns and I are at least tolerating each other now...
I go back to the city on the wkends, visit the grandparents, hang out in cafes...then trek back to the jungle with the nuns on Mondays. I have photo ideas in my head....lots of them...
I am so F-ing grateful for Yahoo Messenger w/voice since it's like my lifeline to Alan for the nest 5 months...
