What a difference a day makes

All my fault of course for not letting Tam use our money to pay a bribe to the Police. It  is customary to pay a bribe when stopped by the Police here.  We have been stopeed 5 times now.  Ridiculous, all because the number plate is from a  region- no speeding , pulled in because we didn’t indicate between changing lanes etc., crazy.  It’s all beer money for the cops.

As a consequence they took her licence, and now she has to travel 110 Km to another city to get it back and a $30 (600,000 VND) fine to get it back.  Stupid really.  So I was in the doghouse for the sake of a 10 dollar bribe.

We have found a  4 bed house, with limited furniture for $250 a month, we have to pay 8 months in advance! That is 40m VND.

Kida and teaching can be variable - but what can you do with over 50 in a class?

Oh and my two colleagues had their moto’s stolen from the front of the hotel.  Both were on rental, worth almost nothin, but the owners want 3 times as much in money to the value of thes moto’s.  $750, we bought replacements for much less than 250 dollars.

So its my birthday on Sunday…wonder what the day will bring….