You know, I always tell you how my day was, but I never ask how was your day? It's awfully rude of me. So how was your day? Did you get up to anything...?
I can't hear you... Did you do anything at all? Anything? I hope you woke up today, cuz that's something.
Jump in anytime...
Alright, I guess you did nothing. My Turn!
Yea I did nothing... Not true! I woke up! I ate fruit salad for breakfast! I hit Ben Thanh Market and talked to Hien. Picked up something for someone which is a surprise, so everyone think that it's for you and then be crushed when its not! :D Naw it's for someone who didn't get a zippo, and no Mitchell I already you a cheap shitty one but it was only $.20CDN so I had to pick it up for ya. You like rainbows right?
I talked to Hien for awhile and wanted to know my thoughts on what would help him learn English and for his kids. I know history and military stuff haha, but I just told him to practice speaking and listening in English with Westerners to help with speaking and listening, and to help with reading and writing in English, to practice reading and writing. You can read the best book ever on how to play poker, but you won't get better without playing a game of poker (which is still not a sport, show more hockey!) We talked for three hours again haha so I had to go eat, pick up our box of Vietnam items to ship home and head to Phuoc's
Got to Phuoc's and we did inventory, sorted everything out and boxed it. We weighed it, took the measurements and called for a quote. It will ship tomorrow, I'll pick up the bill, I have a list of everything and who has what and that'll be my homework for my flight home, figuring what percentage of shipping everyone owes and at 19kg the shipping cost was, if I remember correctly $321 plus the $50 bribe so $371 divided by weight. Brit, Chris and myself are the three heaviest. Kirshin, Lt and I think a tie between Sam (zippo + 3 canteen covers)and Josh (map+poncho, but I'm not charging you for a single map which is like $.25. I can waive that fee, Merry Christmas!). Turns out I can't ship LSA Weapon Oil or Nuoc Mam fish sauce via Air mail due to them being liquid so I have to see how much it'll cost to send four little bottles by sea. If it's more than $10CDN I'll leave behind the fish sauce for my former Kitchen staff and empty the LSA oil bottles, wash them out and toss them in my ruck haha. I paid Phuoc, it should ship tomorrow and I can pick up the bill at 2pm. I'll also get an online bill and as soon as I get a tracking number, you guys will get it as well and I'll post it in the Bravo Facebook forum for our eyes only. Sorry Eric, Heather, Mitchell and everyone else!
The only other thing I had today to meet up with Hoa at 6pm so I had a little time and did some packing practice! Yea in 20 mins I was packed, minus laptop and things I need tomorrow like tooth-brush, clothes I plan to carry on with me, laptop, etc. I met up with Hoa, explained the American War in Vietnam, then she wanted to know about the US and Iraq haha. I told her what I tell myself to sleep at night and not worry about being randomly invaded for no reason, although I did tell her all Canadians know deep down inside the US will invade us, the only question is when! We also talked about cultural differences and she was shocked to find that women in North America want tanned skin, as in Asia the hottest girls are pale as whiteout, but like I've said before you can have ivory skin and be fricken hot, all depends on the person. Three hours passed and she had to catch the bus home and I'm here now eating a Toblerone bar and cooling down. I wore one of the Adidas breathable t-shirts I bought from the other day and why didn't I discover them fuckin' 51 days ago!!! They work a lot better than cotton which I have to struggle to get them off.
Tomorrow, last day in Nam! I'm meeting up with Hien for coffee before I go, I have to see about shipping the oils via sea mail and hit the Diamond Plaza for one last thing before I go, stuffed crust pepperoni pizza at Pizza Hut. If I need an excuse, which I don't, it's that I'm about to start 26 hours of flying, and I should do it on a full stomach. I gotta drink some Orange Mirianda before I leave, swear at a moto driver haha, thank the guest house staff, finish downloading as many movies as possible, as of right now I'm almost done downloading NCIS Season 3 and 4 and I think that's about it really, everything else I've already done, except maybe do a B-52 on the Rex Hotel patio in time for the Five O'Clock Follies! Other then that I've done everything that I wanted to do, although I did want to see more but that's out of my control. I will miss this place of bartering, cheap labour and products, being a giant and sending ladies swooning upon sight haha.
I look forward to my family, great friends, the guys, my dog (that little shit haha), the gym, pop tarts and cream cheese bagels, baked goods, hot ladies, being surrounded by kit, the vast resources I call a library and time to do what I love with the people I love. T-minus 34 Hotels :)
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