50th B-day Party

This is now the second day of teaching English to the youngsters (Wednesday). Nothing too different from the last, besides me being too tired! Kids are still learning body descriptions like “thin, fat, pretty ugly, short , tall..” except this time I was able to try and come up with some games to help me feel less bored and make them more excited :) After school we went home to celebrate John’s 50th birthday! Our local supporters arrived with presents and a cake and balloons! (Megan and I had only considered a cake and were worried that we were totally slacking in the department of celebrating when we saw all the gifts brought by the locals!!) Yes and all the stuff was very nice and cute and thoughtful (pen, scroll with Vietnamese drawing (which I totally want) a tie, and tie clip). After John had his cake we all (our local supporters extended friends included! Yay for hanging out the locals) headed out to Ling’s (cute 12 yr old girl who speaks fluent English) Dad’s photography studio and had a photo shoot! It was so funny and I hope we get to see the pictures one day! Definitely one of our most random and unexpected experiences in Vietnam! After the photo shoot we headed to this really cute café somewhere (no clue but through a bunch of sketch random alley ways on the back of a motor bike) to enjoy some karaoke and sandwiches from this girls dad’s store. Can’t tell you what form of meat or actually anything that was in the sandwich but it was definitely nice! Once the karaoke began we realized how wrong our first thoughts were of how it would be. The karaoke was a style in which the listeners all got up to ball room dance to! Pretty full on! We ended up karaoke singing happy birthday on stage to John (the only English song of the evening hehe) and were given flowers whilst up on stage. Super cute! I also danced with Ling's dad at one point because, as she said, hes a great teacher for dancing. (Really he was just a super cute old dad who just likes to do the "old man dance ;) hehe". After a fun and interesting night of Karaoke we all headed back to the guesthouse (my bike driver was texting and driving! lol! who knew! and promised to pick me up tomorrow evening at 7pm. Who knows what she was wanting to do but I definitely managed to get myself out of hanging out. I have essays to write. Still. Eek!

Pictures: Singing Happy Birthday Karaoke style and getting flowers, and hanging out with our locals :)