A Memorable Summer

The distinction in between the two lives I live here in Vietnam and my life at home are somewhat similar, yet different in many ways. Since coming to Vietnam, I had realized how I love my mother more and more everyday. But I'll get to that later. I'm coming home in a week! How crazy is that? But there is a part of me that will always want to stay here longer.

The Positives:

-I have learn to love my family even more and that this vacation was something everyone dreaded to attend, but concluded as a positive therapy from the work we had suffered for years!

-I have grown closer to my cousins here because I would usually associate with the aunts that are proximate to my age. But after the deaths that had happened last year, things aren't quite as happy.. or the same.

-I got makeovers! Yeah, I know that's not really me, but for the first time in my life, I actually feel pretty. I love the compliments on my teeth, hair, nails, clothes, etc. I'm actually satisfied with myself that tomorrow, I'm going to have a photoshoot. I can't wait to see those pictures!

-I've learned that sitting at home doing nothing is just self pity in this town. I love how my great aunts and uncles yell at me for staying in the house all the time. Can you believe it? At home, my grandmother and mother yells at me for going out too much. But here is the total opposite! I love it!

-Being treated as a princess here is simply beautiful. Everybody waits by me and asks me if I want to eat or if I'm hungry etc. constantly. They take me out a lot. I have random shopping sprees, bingo nights [gambling style], and well, anything I ask for, I got it. My daddy knows how much I love to sing, so he bought me a karaoke machine. How amazing is that? Even though I know I can't sing whatsoever, my mother encourages me to sing even louder and with more passion.

Too lazy to continue. I'll rant on when I get back home ;D