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February 22, 2007
Thursday 22nd (Katy)
Thursday again so no school today. We're using today to get sorted out and packed up. Had a bit for trouble with our passports over the last few days but luckily it's sorted out now so we're all set to go. We had to give our passports to a tour operator so that we could get our visas for Vietnam. They told us we could pick our passports up on Sunday with the visas. When we got there on Sunday, of course, the shop was shut (Chinese New Year), then it was shut again on Monday. We didn't think to much of it at this stage, just that they'd forgotten they'd be shut for New Year. So we went again on Tuesday. This time the shop was open but the guy in there didn't know anything about our passports. When we showed him our receipt he started saying that if he lost them, we could go to the police, but come back tomorrow and see. We were starting to get pretty worried at this point but waited until Wednesday to see. The first time we went to the shop, about lunch time, it was shut (even more worried) then Joe called in again later and was told to call back later. Stubborn as he is, he said he'd wait and spent the next 40mins in the office. Eventually the woman we'd originally dealt with came in and got our passports straight out of the drawer!! What a relief!! She apoligised for her "stupid little brother" (the guy who said he'd lost them) and everything was good.
I've now vowed never to let my passport out of my sight again.
We cleared all of our plastic bottles out of the room again this morning. We found a young boy wandering around with a big bag, for bottles. Joe got one bottle out of his bag first and the boy looked pretty happy and started to walk off. We called him back and by the time we'd given him our 20 or so bottles his bag was full and he had the biggest smile on his face. He skipped off down the road, nine o clock in the morning and aleady a whole bag full of bottles. It's nice that it's so easy to please people.
Posted by admins at February 22, 2007 3:38 AM