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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Goodmorning Vietnam


This is An here! I have been in Vietnam for over 5 weeks now, and this weekend Rodolfo came to visit me to do some house searching.

On the photo you can see me in my apartment next to the pictures of my family and a portrait painting of Yil. I haven't yet found any painting school or teacher who provides classes in the weekend, so I painted this portrait without any help. Yil hasn't seen it yet. I hope he likes it!

Ro, here. An has a nice little house on her own. It has two rooms and I was honored when she showed me mine... (that was a joke, ok?)

House hunting was tough, but I think we'll get something interesting by the time we move here in July. The growth in Vietnam is visible in every inch of asphalt laid down or every new building in town, roads, highways, more cars (uff, more cars), restaurants, bikes, people, people, more people! as if it didn't have enough before. The demand of land and houses is so big, the big companies are paying whatever they are asking for them to keep their expats in nice houses and that's affecting the economy and the prices. It seems it all is going to come down again. But when?

Did you guys see the painting An did of Yil? click on it so it gets larger. She's a natural!

Well, tomorrow back to Bangkok. I lost one rehearsal on Saturday we can't afford that. The show must go on and it will on the next 28th of May.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

El Triatlón


Y ahí va el campeón, marchando a la meta final del triatlón.
















Pueden ver el recorrido aquí.
Estas son las distancias recorridas para su grupo de 11 y 12 años.
Swim: 200M
Bike: 4.5Km
Run: 1.6Km


Yil quedó en 8vo lugar de su grupo. Este es su primer triatlón de su vida.

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

The Father-Daughter Ball



Not enough words to say... Just look at the pictures. Lía went to her first big gala ball in her life. It is called "The Father-Daughter Ball" and no moms are allowed, just dads (me) and daughters (Lía).

Her mom had a lot to do with it, though. They went together shopping for her first gala dress, shoes and purse and Nana took her to the hair dresser. She had beautiful nails too. Also, it was An who took all the pictures. So, it's not all about painting. She's becoming a great photographer as well.

During the ball Lía and I won a trophy for the Best couple dancing La Macarena, surprised?

Lía had the time of her life!!! And me too!!!