ThucLam is Better than Nam

When we went to the airport it was late night so all the stores were closed. There was this one store near our gate so TQ and I just looked around. I brought $20 to buy snacks but since it was late night I had already brushed my teeth and should be asleep by now. Our gate was boarding so TD, TQ and I said bye to mom and we got on the plane. Here were TVs but TD said we had to sleep. TQ and I played games on the TV until after like 10 of the plane taking off, TD told us to turn it off and go to sleep. I woke up and we had already landed. We got off and went to the bathroom to brush our teeth. I wanted to know where the nearest snack stop was. We found this small store at the airport and I got gummies, TQ got a soda and TD got jalapeño chips. Of course, nobody wanted to pay so I volunteered to pay, I don’t know why. I got $5 back. I could’ve bought stuff for myself with all that money but my sisters insisted on using mine even though we all know who has the most, TD. I got the money from mom since I got all As all year. TQ got the same amount and only got  all As one quarter. She spent it on Robux. And she went over $20, TD had to loan her $5. She wasted all that money and more on a game. We played on our iPads until our gate was ready. Anyways our gate boarded and the plane was pretty small, considering it was a 30 min flight. TQ fell asleep but I was wide awake so I played on my iPad for a bit until the battery was too close to dying. We arrived and Bac Truong picked us up. We arrived at the house and we got to where we are now. Bye bye.

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Hôm qua con về tới nhà Bác Trường. TQ chơi với Duy Biên ở ngoài. TD và Duy Khang coi TV. TD lái xe Ba Ngoại và Duy Khang đi Giant Eagle. Con chơi game với Duy Biên và TQ. Hồi tối Duy Biên, Duy Nam, TQ và con chơi lên cái TV. Rồi mình đi ngũ.

Hôm nay mẹ sẽ chở mấy con đi phi trường. Mình sẽ đi Charlotte rồi mới đi tới Ohio. Con phải viết blog tiếng Việt và đánh đàn nếu mà con muốn mang IPad của con. TD sẽ ở đó mấy tuần rồi TD sẽ về nhà. Duy Biên đang ở đó mấy tuần rồi. Cho nên lúc mà con tới Biên sẽ ở đó rồi. Nhà con sẽ đi ăn ở Capital Grill. Con vẫn còn không biết Capital Grill có cái gì. Lúc mà mình xong ăn mình sẽ đi phi trường. Rồi con sẽ đi Ohio!

Hôm nay bạn của TD tới và đi Target với TD. Hôm qua mẹ chỉ con nhà mới mẹ muốn mua. Nhà có năm  phòng và ba phòng tắm. Cho nên nếu mà mình có mua nhà đó thì con được phòng riêng. TQ cũng được phòng riêng. Bà Ngoại được phòng tắm riêng. Mẹ muốn mua lúc mà con đang ở lớp chín. Mà con muốn mua nhà đó bây giờ.

So on Saturday we went to Vyvy’s house for her birthday. But of course, TD bought presents last minute. Vyvy had a list of what she wanted and TD and Tamil would be splitting it up. We went to Target and instantly found a pink bandana. We found some nail polish, and these flavored marshmallows.  There were these body lotions that were pink (Vyvy’s favoriter color was pink so everything was themed around pink) but they were too expensive. We found a carton that was pink so we put all the stuff inside. While we were in line for check-out TD saw that one really nice brand of gum, I think it’s called Gourmet Gum, so we tossed it in the bin. Then TD remembered that Vyvy also wanted chapstick so TQ and I dashed back into an aisle and debated whether to get the pink chapstick with a blue package or a purple one with a pink package. The second choice would’ve fit the aesthetic more but we decided that if the real thing was pink it was enough. We walked back home and TD arranged the presents in the carton for the care package look. The carton had come with two so TQ and I took the second one for ourselves. TD put the present in a matching bag and put some pink tissue paper in. As if on cue, Vyvy’s mom arrived to pick us up. We stopped by Chick-Fil-A and a boba place called Chill’d. We got to the house and just hung around for about an hour. Then we went to the neighborhood with a really nice park. We took some pictures and left. When we got back I melted some chocolate and Vyvy’s mom cut up some strawberries. Everyone had Korean Barbecue but I had crawfish. The chocolate was finally done melting and instead of putting the chocolate and waiting for it to harden, we just dipped it as it was. It was still as good as it would’ve been if we had let it harden with the chocolate. We had cake and Vyvy led some words of “inspiration” and then out of nowhere Cô Uyên pulled out her phone and read one of TD’s blog she had written in Viet. Mom had sent the link to Cô Uyên so now she could be reading this right now. TD’s blog was pretty funny since it was in Viet and she was using the only amount of words she could. We had cake and Kally, Vinh and I decided to go upstairs. Vinh was showering so I listened to Kally rant about people she hated and I just gave her some advice that helped her, I think, that’s what she said. But it was really fun that night. And Vinh ordered something for Vyvy and(don’t tell her) he’s getting a white bucket hat for her. I want a black bucket hat. Like Nhi’s. I swear I have my own opinions. But yeah that’s it.

 

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Con phải làm bài học một tuần nữa rồi xong con sẽ đi Ohio. Mẹ muốn con và TQ và TD đi Ohio lúc mà mùa hè tới. Duy Biên tới Ohio rồi. Ngày mai là sinh nhật bạn của TD. TQ, TD và con sẽ đi với nhà Cô Uyên cho sinh nhật của bạn TD. Mình sẽ đi chơi rồi đi về nhà Cô Uyên lúc tối. Lúc đó mẹ với ba sẽ đi tới nhà Cô Uyên luôn. Mẹ nói con phải viết một cái blog tiếng việt nếu mà con muốn đi. Bây giờ con có một trăm chữ. Con muốn đi Ohio mà TD không có muốn đi nhiều. Và con xong rồi😊

I don’t think that this whole quarantine thing is that serious. The quarantine part sucks but the corona virus isn’t the worst. I think we should just go back to the way it was. Like cancer isn’t kinda like corona. But nobody is overreacting about cancer. Because corona is so much more dangerous even though both corona and cancer have no cure and only one of them is get all the attention. Think about how sad cancer must feel, devastated. Corona gets all the attention because it’s the younger child, as expected. But cancer has more deaths. Brighten up.

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Hàng xóm của con hơi nhỏ. Nó có một hồ bơi. Và nó bên cạnh Target. Bà Ngoại đi Target  nhiều lắm. Con với TQ thích đi bơi nhiều lắm. Con chơi ở ngoài với TQ nhiều. Có một cái playground ở hàng xóm của con. Mà nó hơi xa nhà con cho nên con không có đi tới đó nhiều. Và con không có muốn đi. Con xong rồi, bye bye.

Hôm nay nhà con đi chợ với Nhi. Mình đi Hobby Lobby và WinCo. Mình mua đồ đễ mà làm cookie! Con muốn đi Barne’s N Noble mà nó đóng rồi. Con mua bút long mầu xanh lá cây và mầu xanh dương. Cái mầu đó con thích lám con nghĩ nó đẹp. Ngày mai TD nói mình sẽ làm cookie!

My mom just got a call from a random number and I picked it up for fun. Here’s how the conversation went;

Me: Hello?

Person: Hi, is this Tooka?

That’s it. I hung up after that and started laughing. TQ asked what they said and I recreated our brief conversation. I hung up because I don’t know anybody named Tooka. But looking back I should’ve given it to Tooka, whoever that is. I only know my mom, Thucha. I hope that guy didn’t need Tooka for something important, for all I know it was just a scam call or something. My mom will find out about this when she reads this but its not like she knows anybody named Tooka. But maybe Tooka was expecting an important hpone call to see if she won the lottery or something but that number hasn’t called yet so I’m deciding whether or not it was a scam. I really wanna meet this Tooka cause the guy calling got the wrong phone number so Tooka’s is close to mom’s phone number. That means Tooka is my mom’s phone neighbor.

 

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