Friday's Creature

This morning started out like most others....white bread roll served for breakfast along with banana's peanut butter and jam...oh and the coffee....let's not forget that amazing coffee they serve here....anyone who has been here will know what i am talking about....YUM...fully addicted to this stuff....i'm dreading the detox headache i'll get when i finally go home and remove caffine from my life again......
anyway...with the bread roll pushed to the side (i'm not coping with the breakfast at all!!!), i start on my coffee and banana....such a healthy breakfast....how do i go about making my own breakfast for the next 10 days without seriously offending our cook (who, by the way is the most ditsy person i have met...she is my age and refuses to believe she is over 20....she acts 12 and she is a sure test of my patience and acceptance of all....i'm not going too well on either of those two tests!!!)....the repercussions could be huge considering her personality....but i'll think of a fun way to make it happen....i have to!!!! White bread for breakfast does not agree with my hips!!!
After my breakfast for champions i get my materials and equipment ready to take to the Deaf & Mute school, today i will be showing them how to make monster toys...(for those who have not read the previous email scroll down to see a pic of Sylvester...my monster toy, and at some stage why not read the post :)).... we hop on our push bikes and head off up the road to the school...we arrive to the cheers of the kids and as i hop off my bike (secretly hoping that the kid who punched me in the guts the last time is not around...) the kids are swarming us, trying to see what is in the bags.....as i gather my stuff and go to walk off i feel a big wack on my arse.....yep little angry kid who punched me in the guts is back again...i must really look like a punching bag to him...to goes for me again and i use my boxing skills to duck and weave my way around him....who would have thought those skills would be handy in a Deaf school!!!!
i am soon grabbed by hand by the little boy i played with last week and he tries to take me outside with him to play frisbee....i have to explain in sign language (and not the real signing...my version of it...lucky i'm a wog...i know how to talk with my hands) and he runs off to find someone else...a few of the other boys are hanging around and saying hello to me...yes one of them was mr touchy feely boy but he kept it clean today which was nice......
We finally get our room unlocked and the kids swarm in...and then most swarm out...and then in again and then out again....with each time it gets smaller and smaller until we have a nice group of about 9 kids to start....i show them Sylvester and they are excited, smiling and laughing and each trying to take a closer look Sylvester...guess i found something they hadn't tried before.....we explain how we are going to start with choosing two colours for the monster....one for the front and one for the back...then comes the shape...then the sewing starts.....it was really nice to see them so into the task...even in their frustration at some things they seemed to enjoy the process and once they could see it coming together their focus was solely on their toy making skills...we only got through half of the toy making as it does take a little while to make them...we should be done by Wednesday so i'll post a picture with me, the kids and the team of monster toys created...i'm excited to see how it all turns out and am hoping that the kids like the end result...fingers crossed!!!
after class we have the rest of the day free....we are all tired....and two of us are quite sick so we opt for a nice little nap or lay down and relax in my case (still can't do the nap thing in the afternoon, best not get used to it either, not sure Pete would approve of a midday nap session!!!)....we get up around 1pm and go for a coffee with Seamus who is leaving at 2pm....he's bought mud cake so we head off to the cafe up the road with our cake and soon realize that the words mud cake and Vietnam don't really go together...the cake is strange...no really chocolately and more like pudding, but not, not really sweet, not really any taste at all....shame...we were really looking forward to cake.....
We say our goodbye's and the three of girls sit and chat for a while longer...we decide to head out for dinner that night...just have to remember to let Miss Chi (the cook) we won't be in....
as Seamus has left i now get to move into the presidential suite...it's huge and has a wardrobe, windows that open onto the balcony and a door to the balcony as well....there is light and fresh air....real sunlight and real fresh air....i am in heaven...i spend most of the afternoon moving and settling into my new luxury room...i seriously feel like a princess now....
We forget to tell Miss Chi about not wanting dinner and we only remember after we smell the dinner cooking...we decide that we'll go to the 5 star hotel called Cendeluxe (same place i got my hair done the other day) and have a drink and dessert (to make up for the unusual mud cake)...following that we're going to the spa and getting something done....anything...but we each feel like a little spoil...
We get to the Cendeluxe and order our desserts...we each order 2 and share....they are all so awful....hugely dissappointing, we won't be back for dessert in a hurry....
we head downstairs to the Spa and i order a Facial Sauna, Face Massage and Mask along with a Hair Oil Treatment and a French polish on my toes.....all was going well until the lady snipped my toe and made me bleed...i wouldn't stop so she decides that some acetone will help it....OUCH!!!...then more pressure holding then the good old lime juice on the cut....OUCH!!!....still not stopping the bleeding she goes for the acetone again (at least it's steralizing!!!)....i can't take much more of this so i suggest i hold the cotton wool on the cut to make it stop while she gets on with my other foot.....she's a bit more gentle with this foot and manages not to draw any more blood...thank god!!!....
i've told the girls that i am going to come in everyday starting on Sunday and get the VIP treatment massage done.....the full package is a sauna, facial mask, thai massage, hot rock massage, body wash and scrub, hair wash and ending with a rose petal bath.....all of this for $7.50!!!...why not have it done everyday for a week...not like i'll get a chance to do that again!!!
i go to bed that night in my presidential suite and am glad that i woke up this moring with sunlight and fresh air...it's been the first morning i am feeling up to doing yoga as well....my mini pneumonia must be calming down....that and fresh air and sunlight....as much as i enjoyed Seamuses company....i'm so glad he's gone and i've this room.....the next 10 days won't seem as bad that's for sure!!!
love and light to all....
Om Shanti.....