Pleasant Goat--The Super Adventure!

Last Sunday, we met the couple that owns one of the schools where O. teaches for dinner. They first took us shopping for plants. Patrick is Canadian and Lan Anh's Vietnamese, so she did all the bargaining. We got a lot of plants for very little money. Lan Anh said she could have gotten much better prices if she hadn't obviously been buying for rich foreigners, but we were quite pleased.

P., Patrick, and Lan Anh watch as the plants are readied for delivery.

All the plants, some 4-5 feet tall, were crammed on the back of a motorbike, delivered to our house and positioned in their appropriate spots for a couple bucks extra. Then we all went out for a delicious dinner of BBQed goat and goat hot pot, cooled by a continuous flow of iced beer.

And speaking of goats, I'm continually amused by my female students and their cartoon character fetish. There's Hello Kitty, of course, all the Disney princesses, and surprisingly, Tom and Jerry, which is monster here. Or not so surprisingly if you read Jerry as Vietnam and Tom as any of the large countries that have tried to devour it.

Anyway, almost all of them carry cartoon character pencil boxes, and I've been pleased, as a huge Miyazaki fan, to see several Totoro pencil boxes. But last night, one of them had the best pencil box ever:

Pleasant Goat !

It's worth a click.

P.