Sunday, September 5, 2004

   Art!
Yaay new art is up!
And I'm so happy, happy happy....*smile*...Life is beng good to me!
All for now!
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Sunday, August 8, 2004

   Two e-mails,and Gecko-Torture! \/\/007!

I am going to see if my parents will take you to come and pick us up at the airport okay? So i hope you can come.
I have been very bad on friday i put a geko on chi quyen. The gekos are really cute over here and i am not sure why every one hates them so much. So while waiting to go shopping with hoa and her i finally managed to catch one. I then discovered that chi quyen veiws them as being the same level of horror as rats. So of course i snuck up behind her while ahn quoc (her husband) was watching and put it on her shoulder. She noticed it when it crawled down the front of her shirt. She proceeded to scream and dance around as the geko dropped to the ground and ran for cover. I was then seriously (sarcasticly) informed by chi quyen while she was shaking her finger at me, that she would never take me anywhere again. Of course 5 minutes latter we were of to shop for presents for everyone. Hieu's father thinks it was hilarious. Yesterday in the morning we went with a group of highschool students from finnland and thier veitnamese hosts to visit a historic site from the war. It was where common farmers turned notorious gurella fighters dug networks of tunnels hundreds of kilometers long. Of course they had been widened to fit tourists, but still you were crawling most of the time. I had an amazingly enjoyable morning crawling aroung in the and admireing the veitnamese's brilliance in design. Seriously these are works of genius. No american could penetrate them and they were built so that bombs coulnt destroy them. Cool huh. Oh yeah, and the leftovers from the americans (bombs, shells, tank parts) were taken and remolded into weapons for them to use. Oh yeah and dont forget the thousand year tradition of usin bamboo pit traps on invadeing soldiers you dont like. We went shopping for underwear for hieu last nigh and hoa, chi quyen aqnd i ended up with a lot more than that of course. Hieu was out rather late with exchange student freinds as well as the finn's. At a bar/ disco tech place. The current count of girls that are heaad over heels for him is 4. All of them falling for him within hours. Today in the morning we visited his grandparents for breakfast, then went to a luch party hosted by his father at the best restraunt in the city. Had fun tortureing him about choosing a girl. I am ruthless, and of course he pointed out that i as the reigning ice queen shouldnt comment on his way of doing things. Went home slept, then after a breif battle with hoa over what i should wear went out to get my hair washed and dried with her. Then home again, and got dressed up for the opening of hieus cousins and his fiancee's bridal shop. How should i put this. The girls parents are REALLY RICH, holding one famous restraunt chain, and various high end bridal shops. Seems to me that here i am constantly eating with very influential people and not realizeing it. Oh well, it was fun and trum was adorred by the girls brother who was talking to her all evining, YEAH trum, and they have promised to chat on line. Now it is time to go to sleep so laters.
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I told you that long ago. and you didnt belive me. so ha.Here is the lastest in asia. Wednessday nothing exiting happened. Thursday i went out to lunch at one of the fanciest hotel buffet's in the city with hieu and his dad. We went to lunch there with the family of a female exchange student leaving the next day. (we saw her off today) and the food was great. I did learn the lesson of not inhaling while eating a bite of shortbreak cokkie. It had nasty painful consequences. Shortbread in the wind pipe aside it was great. That night we went out to dinner at a really tasy food place (i had no clue what the sticky white cover meat smothered in bean sprouts and fish sauce is called thuogh) and then had two glasses of kumquat juice. Very delicious. Then we went to the get every thing store MaxiMart. Hieu took his two small cousins to the arcadt while Hoa, chi quyen, chi li and i went shopping for instant iced tea to bring back to america. She also is determined to send us back with 30 kilo's of rice. That is about how much weight a person is allowed to bring back into the usa. I am not sure how to tell her that politely. We had a grand time and apparently i am very amusing to the ladies and at one point they were laughing so hard tears were running down their cheeks. We had a great time. Today i have been making many flowers, and chi quyen, hoa and i went prestent shopping at a really cool store. So that is all. write soon,

mika
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Thursday, August 5, 2004

   Of Photographers and Water Parks
Thanks for forwarding kelly's email, she sounds happy. I am glad you are having a great time camping. WAHHH!!!! I am sorry i havent writen in so long (though it has only been 4 days) and i am now here to tell every one of the recent events. Hieu has passed his interveiw, and i am thanking god profusely. That means he will be back with us for another year, YEAH!! On sunday i went to the final flower class with trum, and i got a certificate, wich of course is in veitnamese so i have no clue what it says. Then i went home and hieu bullied me into playing samuri warriors instead of making flowers. After a while i got fustrated and wanted to stop (wich hieu got mad at me for). He stil is and is being a jerk. Back to the events on sunday, i then went out for shopping, dinner, and icecream with tram and a freind lahn. On monday chi quyen and i went over to chi li's house where chi quyen would do some sowing. After sitting around for a bit, and finding out hieu had passed, i went exploring. I had never been upstairs there before, and i managed to find a wonderful little balcony, with a really comfortable hammock. So i spent the morning dozing up there. After lunch i went to the amusment park/water park again, but this time with tram and thui (trams freind from america) we had a delightful time, and when i came time to go swimming (hieu had not wanted to talk to me so i had no clue that i needed swim wear) i was lent a pair of short shorts and a blue tank top. I didnt want to get my underwear wet sot of coursi left my strechable with my clothes. I found out in the wave pool that the shirt turned see through when wet. GAHH. Tram quickly lent me he shirt, and found out that HER swimsuit didnt have adequet lining, so thui and i quickly scuried of to the changing rooms where i donned trams shirt and rushed back to give tram the shirt i had been wearing. So in the end it all worked out. Afterwards, we all went baqck to thui's family's house where we all dried our hair and went of to go and get our pictures taken. This was the place where chi quyen and ahn quoc had their wedding pictures takken, and outside the door there was a large picture of chi quyen. It is not all that supprising, seeing as is chi quyen is gorgeous. Apperently for pictures you need full make up so we were decended on by three makeup ladies. First they slather your face with skin colored stuff. This takes awhile, the reason wich i dont know. Then they gave mme eyebrows. When i first saw myself with eybrows, i said i looked really scary, because usually i have only light eyebrows. After the new addition to my face they proceeded to put on eyeshadow. Green eyshadow. I had to be reasured multiple times that it was fine and i didn't look hideous. I still wasnt to sure of it asthey started to prepare the torture devices known as fake eyelashes. The reason behind that last comment was that when they put on the first eyelash, apperently the woman didnt do it correctly, so i felt like i had an inch long needle inserted into my tear duct. As my eye started to water, i assured the woman i was fine, and when she turned around proceeded to start clawing at my eye in an attempt to alieviate the excruciating pain. Finally it beame to much, and so the torture device was removed from my face, and a new one was properly aplied. I think that looking at people who have those things on up close is realy scary. They just look weird. Finally lipstick was painted on, and we hen were ushered upstairs to pick out outfits for the pictures. MY first outfit was a black skirt and shirt, and i was takken out and subjected to the photographer, who had a grand time posing and preening and american. Howevery when they tried to put me in heels for a full body shot, he started laughing and i was told to take them of or else i would be too tall to take a picture of. My second outfit was and aodai the traditional veitnamese dress. I got stuck in two that were way to small, and finally on was fond that i could sort of fit in. The sort of comes from the fact that every thing fit fine until my chest. then it could not be zipped up any more. Also the aodai was sparkly and PINK, wich we all know is my FAVORITE combination (NOT). Oh well it was cool. For the pictures of all of us toghether, we all wore fancy wedding/prom dresses. Those were fun, but in the picture poor tram didnt just have to wear platform heels. She also had to stand on a pile of magazines to her everlasting emberasment. When we finally got done it was almost ten at night, and so we rushed of to hieus house to drop me off. Hoa greeted us and clucked over my makeup, wich see said was beatiful. Hieu thought otherwise, andx laughed at my and told me just how ugly i was. He seems to find every thing about me ugly lately, so much that i am afaird to show him anything. Chi quyen helped me remove the torture devices and the goo all over my face, and then i stumbled of to bed. Yesterday i made flowers and watched movies with hoa in the morning and then after my nap got dressed to go out for dinner wich i think was a celebration of hieu passing his visa inter veiw, at the best restraunt in the city. As everyone remembers the place with the KILLER CHILE ENCRUSTED CRAB. Luckily for me all the food was great and i had a fun time because tram was there to chatter away with. It aperently is a tradition to feed people, and of course the guys sitting across from us took it upon themselves to make sure we were well fed. After a lenghty dinner party with 18 guests and plenty of beer for the men, we went to pick up the pictures, and then went to kareoke. Tram, chi qyuen, and i watched ahn quoc and his cousin steadily get more and more 'buzzed' in ahn quocs words. They were pretty funy to watch and thier antics were amusing. Just that their singing steadily got worse and worse. Oh well it was fun, and i had a good time. write soon.

mika
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Sunday, August 1, 2004

   Sunburned toes! And more chilie.
Thanks for the links i like the art. And i REALLY REALLY hope that we are in the same classesz again, i cant imagine not having fun hanging out with you every day. And who would take care of me when i am absentminded other wise? Coming back soon, and hopefully with hieu, whose visa interveiw is in 4 days. And it is REALLY hard for him to get a visa now because of the national security act. I am praying ferverently to god for guidance, because quite frankly i dont know if i could handle travle on my own. You know me i get lost, i faint, and i zone out. Not whzat makes the best traveler. So pray for us will ya? Heres how things are going here. Yesterday we didnt do much i mainly did my flower class homework, and managed to rub the skin of my left thumb in the process. Also i am no longer truster on the stairs, after a rather nasty fall left me with a purple big toenail, and a swollen toe. Every time i go upthe stairs The reminds me to be careful, and laughs. I only fall once every two days or so. And it is NOT my fault it is the stairs fauly. THey are the ones who have nasty little overhangs that are made to catch my feet. AS well as being made of slippery marble. Needles to say hieu does not share my opinion on who is at fault. And for dinner The took us all out to bulgogi, wich is absoloutely fabulous, i even tried eating some of the many small spicy dishes littering the table. I still could not however bring myself to eat kimchee. Just too spicy. And i sucesfully evade the veitnamese plot to kill the american with chile's. Hieu, anh quoc, and chi quyen tried to trick me into eating what turned out to be one of the spiciest chiles avalible. It didnt work because for one i never trusted hieu to begin with and two, i learned very quickly not to trust hieu's brother who loves jokes just as much as him. Today we went to an amusment park and a water park in the city. I went with hieu (of course), tram, peter (an exchange student who went to new york), and peters two younger brothers. We had a great time killing eachother in bumper cars, and after lunch and walking around (and being made to pose for a million pictures by hoa) we were all hot sweaty and ready for the water park. They m ade me go and scary slides, and a REALLY SCARY ride where you go on a zip line that suddenly stops and dumps you 12 feet into a pool. Ugh. I did have fun on other rides, and hieu was his usual pain in the ass on the lazy river, repeatedly upturning my inneretube and dunking, and splashing me. I finally snaped and everyone seeing the b;loody murder in my eyes told hieu to stop (this was after about an hour of him tourtureing me). I am now really tierd and nursing my sunburned toes. Yup you heard me correctly, my sunburned toes. Only i am cabable of getting baldly su nburned toes at this low altitude. And sunburned toes HURT. Also when i realized just why my feet burned on the way around the lake to the water park, all the sunburn proof veitnamese were both astonished and amused to learn that yes indeed, every time i go out for an extended period of time, i will get badly sunburned no matter what. And i dont tan like them, i just turn pink/red and then heal as pale as ever. Obviously this is a new concept to most of them.

mika


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Tuesday, July 27, 2004

   Cold-flus, weddings, and fried Xboxes!
Only i am cabale of being this close to the equator and still manage to get a cold/flu. Go figure. Anhwhos, i am having a great time. Friday night, when chi quyen and i went out to buy dinner, i convinced her to go fast, and we had fun going about 40 kmph. Veitnamese are among the best drivers in the world, other wise there would be accidents all over the place. Also the trafic rules that americans regard as absolute are negotionable here, the only real rule being anything goes as long as it doesent cause and acident. So the lines on the road and the traficlights are considered sugestions. It is really different here. On saturday i had flower class againg and the other ladies had a grand time testing out their english on me. After that hieu and i hopped in a taxi and went of to his paternal grandparents house for his aunts wedding. We arrived late to the family lunch, but it was all taken in good humour by every one (i managed to turn several of hieu's male relatives heads in my new jeans) and i was stuffed with food by all the aunts. Every time i sit down to eat all the women take it upon themselves to feed. me. This wedding was fairly informal i was told, because the bride is 40 and the groom had been married before. After lunch and talking every one settled i to take an afternoon seista. Hoa and i claimed a bed upstairs where the women were sleeping, and napped away the hottest part of the afternoon. After everyone was dressed and preen, we all drove over to the open air hall where the wedding banquet was held. While the first guests arrived, pictures were takken (wich i tried to escape, but to no avail because i was always draged back by hoa). Then we had dinner, while having our eardrumed blasted out by the REALLY REALLY LOUD music. Hieu, some cousins and i had fun trying to trick people into opening thoroughly shaken coke cans. There was kareoke and on of hieu's uncles dedicated a song to me.... weird. After everyone had left we all dragged our tired carcasses back to the house, grabbed our stuff and headed home. Yesterday my cold was really nasty until in the afternoon where The came to the rescue with some cold medicine for me. In the morning i did my flower class home work while hieu watched a movie. After the movie was done hieu wanted to play on his xbox so he pluged it into the wall. Now let me explain somthing about wall plugs here. They have DOUBLE the voltage of wall plugs in america. And the xbox was made in america, and therefore for american wall plugs. Are you getting the picture? So hieu, anh quoc, and i found out what happens when you plug an american xbox into a veitnamese power circut. With a loud sudden zap-pop-bang-sizzle the xbox let its displeasure be known by promptly dying from fried cicuts and a blown hard disk. Hiue foung out then and there just Why he had always been pluging it into a power converter... so he would still have a WORKING xbox. Hieu was bereft as he scurried of to the xbox shop to see if it could be fixed. Yes it could he was informed, but it would end up costing more than the xbox itself........ So the mourning hieu was promptly bought a new xbox by his parents (not the best way of teaching him a lesson, but heck he is now happy again). That afternoon hieu went to diamond plaza to hang out with misa (his ex) and bang one of his guy freinds. We had fun playing video games and then we went and had a game of bowling. As we were returning our shoes, a guy walks up to misa and i and randomly gives us seven free games. We were overjoyed, and after misa and i were done dancing around with glee, we promptly proceeded to turn in the passes. During bang's turn we go what we thought was a salt shaker and hieu voulunteered by opening his mouth. So misa shook some on his tongue, and we discovered that is was not salt, but actually powder to put on your hands. Hieu's face was priceless, and he ran of to the bathroom to wash out his mouth as misa was wailing that she killed hieu, while we both were doubled over with laughter.

mika

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Friday, July 23, 2004

   Shopping spree, guys and anime.
On monday hieu and i were taken to a shop where you could get anime posters, stickes, keychains, and other wonderful stuf by a freing. The coolest thing is that the average price would be the equivelant of 38 cents american dollars. Cool huh? So needless to say there will be gifts all around when i return. Latley hieu and i have been hanging out a lot. On wendsday, in
the afternoon, hoa, chi li, chi quyen, and another aunt, and assorted
progeny went to a fashion/fabric expo. while hieu went to class. We all
piled on to motorbikes, and for awhile, hoa was taking hieu to school, so
we all wandered around, looking at all the really cool, and REALLY cheap
clothes. Then hoa came and became the undisputed leader in our little
expodition. She is just a take charge kind of lady, and all the female
relatives seem to march under her flag. We had a great time looking at
everything, and i proved very useful in carring small people, due to my
larger size and strenghth. We ended up shopping for 4.5 hours, and when we
went out to the foyer, it was raining. So we found a secluded spot ploped
down our bags and bottoms, and rested tired legs, sore ankles, and
blistered feet. We had managed to visit EVERY single booth in the show
(tHIS was not a small show) and come out with purses still intact, but many
many wonderful purchases. Even though no one was fluent in english ( and
lord knows i am not fluent in veitnamese) we managed to comunicate just
fine. At the end when hoa was leading me by the arm to the foyer since
everyone was done ( arm/hand holding is a sign of freindship and affection
among females here) she was nearly collapsed in a fit of giggles over how
MANY guys did doubletakes when seeing me. The thing that did her in though
was when two security gaurds ( 25 years old, and rather cute ) decided to
test their english pick up lines on me. We got home and i slept until
dinner and then went upstairs to sleep some more. Those women are amazing,
they can easily run circles aruond this amatuer american shopper.
Yesterday, Hieu and i stayed at home in the morning, and then we went out to have dinner with trum, at my favorite restraunt, pho 27, with trums freind/host sister who is visiting veitnam. She however is veitnamese, and fluent, but we still had fun. Then we met up with another exchange student from newyour, peter, and went to one of those fun photo booths and had our picture taken. Then we all went out to kareoke, and i actually managed to score a hundred on a song. Weird since technically i CANT sing, and i have only done this 5 times before....weird.
Today hieu was home in the morning, so after breakfast hieu started up the xbox and began to play ninja gaiden. I assumed my officail position as peanut gallery/health meter watcher, and began to do my homework for flower making class. We had a fun filled morning, and after lunch at kfc (do you know that in veitnamese kfc's they have silverware, glasses, and alongside ketchup is bottles of chile sauce) we went home and then after a breif wait headed of to hieu's enghlish school (he is currently taking a visa interveiw class there) with trum, so she and i could hang out while hieu had class. Trum is really cute, she is about a foot shorter than me has a round heartshaped face, and BEATIFUL wavy/curly hair. After hieus class was over, we met him downstairs hanging out with his other classmates. A guy phoung, who is aperently a ladies man who all the girls worship, intoduced himself to me (butting in on my conversation with ahn and trum) and completely ignored trum who he had also not met. It seemed as if he expected me to fall to the floor and worship him, and give him my undivided attention. He was rather miffed when i did none of those things, and proceded to go back to my earlier conversation. He left shortly after. Serves him right, sorry but i HATE guys like that, who are SO sure of their atractiveness, and only pay atention to girls to flirt with them. Sorry for the rant there, i was just venting. It is funny, ever since i came here i have managed to get over my shyness of being stared at by people in general, and i now can brush of many stares and coments i would never have been able to deal with in america. I have learnd a lot of coping skills that come with being the ONLY anglo aruond, wich by the way draws A LOT of attention. The only thing is that hieu have the continued problem of having to beat into peoples heads that NO WE ARE NOT GOING OUT. good lord when people see us the automatically assue we are bf and gf. It can be rather funny at times...

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Saturday, July 17, 2004

   7/16/04
I dont know who the mascots are so just tell me and i will vote. Here is how things are progressing in asia. Well.. that was NOT the end of our freind the rat. The night before last he made and encore apperance. Not the chi quyuen and i were to happy about it. I was going into the kitchen to get a glass of water, and a BIG rat runs infront of my face. I scream and go runnig out of the kitchen (a perfectly justifiable reaction in my book) and a full scale rat hunt ensues. They tear apart the kitchen and cant find it, and all the whiloe the song 'there's a rat in the kitchen' running through my head. Then they start looking in a pile of bags near the pass through and behold, the rat is there. It then runs behid a cabinet in the living room, and by this time the whole family has joined the hut all of us armed with large blunt objects (except for hieu's sister in law who is up on the chair, she is deathly afraid of rats). The cabinet is shifted and the rat runs of over to the area with the motor bikes, and procedes to promptly dissapear. Well, after half an hour of searching, and still not being able to dicover where it got to we all gave up. I went to bed slightly uneasy, mainly because hieu in his infinite kindness, told me that the rat downstairs is Not the same one from my room, that there is most likely a rat on each floor.... Lovely. We have been hanging out with some of hieu's parents close freinds from america mainly and they are really nice. Well i will keep you filled in.

mika
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Wednesday, July 14, 2004

   7/14/04
for once i got up earlier than hieu, and thus i finnally get the computer first. Hoa and i had fun decending on him to wake him up, usually he is allready up and at it in the morning. Yesterday i stayed at home while hieu went to visa interveiw class and managed to keep myself busy as well as have fun with chi quyen. that night we went out and had coffe with ahn quoc's freinds. When we came back, it was almost midnight and i was very sleepy. Well... i walk into my room, turn on the lights and a godawful large RAT runs over my foot. I let lose a scream, and go scuring down stairs for renforce ments, aka, 'hieu... there is a large rat in my room, can you go get it out?' well... Ahn quoc was sent up to inveswtigate, with chi quyen (who is mortally afaid of rodents) following catiously behind. Ahn quoc and i didnt find anything in my room, but then, quyen screams and long fast, hysterically string of veitnamese with the word rat in it, and points at the storge pile of bedding and such on the landing. Once again the rat escaped notice, and we all went to bed slightly uneasy. Luckily the rat has not shon its slet again, and i am hopping that is the end of our freind the rat.
If you would be as kind as to send me a link thatd be cool, and then i can possibly vote. I have several ne arts to put up when i get back and i think i have gotten better at drawing guys, seeing as is the drawings each hve a girl and guy in them. I am glad things are going gret there, i think i will leave veitnam on august 10'th, but the trip takes 30 or more hours, and then there are time changes to consider, so im not really sure. Mabye i can get my mom and dad to take you when they come to get us. About the birthday present, it is entierly up to you on whatcha want to do. So you decide. well laters.

mika
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   7/12/04
dammit, hieu is being a ROYAL PAIN IN THE ASS TODAY!!!!! the meaning of this is that i just got through a long arguement with him over why he should type in the password so that i could email you.... He was being insuferable as usual. Hieu was set on driving me up the wall, so that after i finished hitting him on the head with a shoe (wich his mother heartily approved of, she was laughing hysterically) i went upstairs, where the in his infinite kindness typed in the pass word. So here i am. Today and yesterday i havent gone any where, all i have done really is sit at home and do the homework for the flower class, and read. And if this keeps up i will have to start on hieu's flowers, to keep my self busy. I love the familhy, every one here is so nice and even when there are misunderstandings and dissagreements between us, we still get along very well. The food is wonderful as usual, and i dont know what i will do when i come back. I miss everyone at time but i am also having the time of my life. My birthday is only a few days away and a party is being planned the day before, with all m freinds here attending. Hieu and his mother are adamant abotu inviting hoi anh, and hieu seems to have a certain gleam in his eye that means that he is up to something, so i know to expect the worst. All my skills in avoidance will most likely be tested though, when he gets an idea into his head and decides to do something about it, stoping him is difficult at best...... Well i will write again soon

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Tuesday, July 6, 2004

   Boy, the reply to that last e-mail was sure quick...
i cant wait to see what peole think of it here. I am having a great time as usual, so here is a breif summing up of the past few days. On sunday, hieu and i went out with loads of his guy freinds, first to kareoke, wich even though i am absolutely mortified when i sing, and it took peter and Quin Ahn almost the whole time to convince me to sing we three kings, i scored a 98.... Weird huh? then we went out to the mall and quin ahn, nga and i went shirt shopping, and we three girls had a wonderful time chattering away as we found me the perfect shirt. The guy followed at a discreet distance in a group, apperently they dont get why we love to shop. And when i tried on the shirt i bought cheered with aproval, they are very silly. After that we had kfc for dinner, and nga had to go home after that. Every one else went to the arcade down stairs, and i had a wonderful time beating or tieing the guys in a version of a game where you use levers to hit a ball at high speeds. The next day i didnt feel good and as the doctor said i have a cold-weather sickness and i should not go out in a thunderstorm again. Today hieu and i hung out in the morning and i mopped my room, much to hoa's delight. Then trum came over, and she taught me the basic flower that you can make with wire and mesh. Apperently i am a VERY fast learner, and she says i soon will be better than her. She is teaching my the basics so that i can take a level 2 course on making flowers with her soon. We hung out, and then trum and i decided to go out for ice cream. Hieu declined to come, the xbox being more interesting at that point than hearing more of our girl chatter, wich he had heard all day. She and i had a mavelous time, and i think hieu had a well deserved break. Then tonight after i bate my dinner in record time. I got to witness hieu and thun (his best freind the chemistry genius) make and detonate gunpowder. It was really cool. But unfortunately, i was only allowed to watch, due to the fact that i didn't know what to do, but mainly because they didnt want me to be hurt or in danger in anyt way shape or form. Hieu's hyper protective attitude seems to rub of on his guy freinds ( thought i suspect it is partialy from him threatening to tear them limb from limb if they endanger me) who also are very protective of me. Another example is when another guy freind ofered me a ride on his motorcycle and to tech me how to ride it,a nd hieu suddenly grew 3 feet and replyed for me 'over my dead body' while cracking his knuckles and glowering. oh wel, it is all right, at least he cares. Lastly i am putting in text a most amusing darwin award (for those that are uneducated, true stories of those who thankfully removed themselves from the gene pool).

love kenna

ps. this wonderful happening is titled kissing a roller coaster. It is my current favorite.

August 28, 1998
WORKER KILLED AFTER BEING HIT BY A ROLLERCOASTER TRAIN

An employee of Joyland Amusement Park located in Wichita, Kansas, was killed Thursday after he was struck by the train on the park's classic wooden roller coaster.

According to reports the employee was doing some gardening work near the tracks and just got too close. He died instantly after the train hit him.

News reports stated that Joyland Amusement Park did not have any rules banning maintenance work near the tracks, while the Roller Coaster is in operation.

The wooden roller coaster has a classic out and back layout, designed by Herb Schmeck. The Roller Coaster opened in 1949 and is recognized as an ACE classic

Ok, I remember vividly that day what happened, and this article is missing some crucial facts. The employee of this amusment park was weed eating around the the bottom of the roller coaster, specifically were the trough of the tracks decent is just a mere 5 feet and few inches above the ground. His mind deafend by the combnation of the weed eater, the walkman he was wearing, and the sheer lack of common sense, and the fact never must of crossed his mind where theres track there could be a roller coaster. Its hard to tell what makes some people tick, but in order to more comfortably weed eat in a tight spot without hunching in a annoying crouched postion under the ride, he casually peered is head up between and above the tracks to continue his labours work. Which the timeing could not have been any worse or better which ever way you think. He kissed the roller coaster of death head on, knocked his head clean off, probably didn't even know what hit him, with out a doubt that had to leave a lasting impression on the people in the front of the coaster, maybe even on there shirts. I was suprised I didn't find this incident on your site. I think he's a formidable contender for his long awaited Darwin Award...
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