Red Headed Woman

A good nights sleep I feel good, breakfast and off to school. I have my morning coffee at Joo’s shop, she seems to be forcing her daughter to talk to me, awkward.  

The first class is a new one for me, about fifteen kids around eight years old, very engaged and fun to work with, I didn’t even have to move anyone. I managed to fill some dead air with some new games Simon showed me yesterday. 

I miss not having Brandon to talk to between classes. Second class I have had before, eight ten year olds, again no punishment needed they are a good class today, I think it makes a big difference if I am energised they seem to feed off that and I don’t give them time to mess around. 

Very busy streets on the way home, midday, bumping elbows with handle bars at some intersections, still better than Sydney traffic. Back at the Blue River I have a quick shower and head out for lunch, I’m starving. 

I go to Jin’s café for lunch, met an Aussie family a bit bewildered by it all but with two kids in tow I can understand that. I buy a Telegraph mainly just to read the story on the fourteen year old Aussie kid who got busted in Bali and to see if the bleeding hearts are out in force in the letters page, I’m glad to see they are not, serves you right kid. 

I wander down to the GO2 for a beer and sit near a beautiful redheaded English girl called Zoe. We chat for a while, she is twenty six and has been living in Perth for four years. She is here for a holiday and to take advantage of thousands of dollars worth of dental work for the much more reasonable Vietnamese price. She also got robbed when she first got here and we bond on stories of hatred for the ANZ. 

Not a great shot but a very cool old cruiser going past the GO2.

 

My back is sore and I need a massage so I ask her out tonight for dinner and at her suggestion the Water Puppet Theatre so we swap numbers and I go for my massage. I bump into Lan as I come out of the massage shop, the first time I have seen her since I got back, she walks with me towards my hotel and we have a good catch up along the way then back to my room for a shower.

I meet Zoe at a bar outside her hotel and we head off to find the Water Puppet Theatre but we just miss the six thirty show so we buy tickets for the seven forty five show and head off to find a restaurant. She is a wonderful, interesting girl and I am glad for the female company and conversation that is not hinting in a round about way to – Are you single? How much money do you have? Can I get a VISA to your country? 

The water puppets are interesting, it is all in Vietnamese so we have little idea what the story lines are but they are non the less entertaining, I thought a couple of the “skits” were Marx Brothers routines, hilarious. 

Zoe and I have a couple more beers and I walk her back to her hotel then head back to mine for some sleep, it has been a long but great day.