Kain goes to school

Kain started his school on 8th Nov. I was there with him for the 1st 3 days and I think the experience is more traumatic for me than for him, lol.

All is calm at first

Breakfast

Gym time

I left the room and let him be with the class and our friend cried his lungs out. He asked the teacher to carry him, point at the door and ask her to open the door.

Lesson Time

Lunch followed by fruits. That’s EV! Kain is in the same class as him

Day 2

More crying when I left him alone-the teacher said he was fine after some crying but once he saw me enter the room, he started to cry as if to tell me he is so damn poor thing gana left there alone.

Day 3-I left him after we signed him in and went for breakfast (of coz, there were lots of tears)

When I returned, I saw him from the CCTV and he was fine.

On the 4th day, Mr K and me dropped him off and (as usual) he cried his lungs out and thereafter, I was banned from sending him to school lol. (Guys are hard hearted coz they can just dump the kid and leave immediately)

After a week or so, he got used to the new routine and the new environment and when Mr K dropped him off, he will say byee as if to say please go soon, don’t disturb me

Now, when I dropped him off (ban lifted), he also says byee mama..no more tears, I am so proud of him!

HCM-5th and 6th Nov 11

5th Nov11-We did a city tour on this day and visited some of the tourists attractions in HCM.

I die die also want to eat the Viet sandwich-Banh Mi, so our guide Tri stopped along a roadside and got the sandwiches for us.

Our breakfast for the day

Reunification Palace

The basement of the palace is just like a scene out of those war movies. It reminded me of the movie-Inglorious Bastards

Notre dam cathedral

The Post Office

Ben Thanh Market

Buying Vietnamese coffee-which I got 砍菜头 (as usual)

Lunch! We got the driver to bring us to this place recommended by Fiona.

We skipped walking around Chinatown and went to the Wars Remnants Museum. Very sad to see the photos of the war and the suffering the people had to go through.

That was the last stop of our city tour. We went for Part 2 of our makan again at this shopping mall (Can’t rem the name) and had MK steamboat for tea, followed by ice cream

After which, we went back to the hotel for a quick rest before meeting up again for dinner.

Dinner was at a French Restaurant-needless to say, the food was yummy.

6th Nov 11, Sunday.

Our last day in HCM.

Had a quick breakfast before proceeding to the airport for our flight back.

More eating at the lounge (non stop eating from the time I land till I depart)

It was a very good trip to HCM as we were very lucky to have such a good host in Fiona who helped us arrange for sightsee as well as bring us to eat all the good food, plus the fact the Sam and Gene were around made this trip extra more fun!

Thanks to Mr K again for making this happen

HCM-Continuation

Ok, finally I am back here again.

4th Nov 11-Continuation.

After the trip to the Cu Chi Tunnel,we went back to the hotel and out again for lunch.

Walked around the city area

View from hotel’s pool

Sam and Gene landed at 6plus pm and we went to Fiona’s place to meet them for dinner. Fiona’s apartment is just 5 mins away from our hotel!

She brought us to this really nice Vietnamese restaurant for dinner. That place serves North and South Vietnamese cuisine.

The food is really delicious! I especially love the dish shown in the 2nd row middle picture above.

City tour up next…