My OperaMy Cousin...
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 6:11:23 PM
MY COUSIN
PART I: WHO IS HE?
My grandfather told us on the first day of Lunar New Year that Jimmy will come to Vietnam on 16/2, anyone who is free at that day go to the airport meeting him and he does not understand Vietnamese. My Mum and my aunt were excited and said that: don’t worry uncle, Thu can speak English (ak ak food is choked over in my throat, I hate this kind of case). Aunt Bich continued: yah, Thu, you take some times to take him go around, I afraid he will feel boring. My aunt followed: don’t mention it, she is unemployed now, let she goes with Jimmy. Thy smiled on me: you are specialize in going out, dear…I sit there can not say a word even “no” and actually no reason to say “no” so that I only could odd my head docilely and “yes”…
For 30 years, I only know I have 2 sisters and 3 cousins, I have not never thought that I still have one more cousin (that why my friends put a big question to me where this cousin come and why I always say busy for last 10 days. Snoopy asked: I knew your family very well, I have not never heard from you that you still have a cousin….Hang asked that you never mentioned about him, you lied, he is your new boyfriend, right? Linh; he is really your cousin, you praise him to the sky, I doubt you…..Yah, my dear friends, He is my cousin and this is the first time in my life, I go to meeting someone who I did not even know his face before. I looked on the gate where a lot of people run very quickly and guess who my cousin is (God help me, I hope he not very odd so that I can go out with him). Time coming, he appeared with glasses and the head look like a ball, his eyes is looking around and his bag swings on his big back.
He is white, 178 cm high, 85kg weight, strong point is his smile and weak point is his big eyes which really not match on his big face. But one thing for sure he is handsome. A handsome man 33 years old goes with a beautiful girl 30 years old is really perfect.
PART II: OH RELATIVE
Because of him, I have 1 more relative, his mom, I call aunt. Because our relative is not closely so that some of his relative I did not know and of course they did not know me either and that why they used to asked me: you are Jimmy’s girlfriend? The return of a son who was born in US makes he become an unavoidable superstar because everyone wants to know how Jimmy look like?
Ah, I have to tell your guys about our relative: his grandfather is older brother of my grandmother
PART III: HOW LUDICROUS I AM!
From the information which I got, he did not understand Vietnamese so that I do my new duty translation very ardent but when I heard he answered in…. Vietnamese, I felt how ludicrous I am suddenly.
I decided to speak in Vietnamese in the day after. But OMG, the same question but sometime the answer is yes, sometime is no…I dazed and looked at him…in case he continued to speak in Vietnamese I could not speak in English, look very ludicrous….one more day has gone. The third day, only I went out with him and I found that: he understood Vietnamese really good but sometime if he did not understand he just smile or said no and the best communication of us is: both of languages. It means he - American will speak Vietnamese and I – Vietnamese speak in English.
PART IV: FINAL
He came to Vietnam this time to visit his grandparents. His grandfather did not meet him for last more than 30 years…this is consequence of war.
His mother stayed in US for long time, fed him and taught him alone…she taught him Vietnamese, kept Vietnamese spirit for him….I respect her a lot. Some Vietnamese who even stays in Vietnam cannot teaches their children speak Vietnamese properly; of course it is not children fault.
Seeing him off, I said: if I come to know you look down on Vietnam, I will not talk with you anymore. He said: I never do it. He promised he try to come back Vietnam next year and he will ask me take him to Hoi An, Hue and other place
PART I: WHO IS HE?
My grandfather told us on the first day of Lunar New Year that Jimmy will come to Vietnam on 16/2, anyone who is free at that day go to the airport meeting him and he does not understand Vietnamese. My Mum and my aunt were excited and said that: don’t worry uncle, Thu can speak English (ak ak food is choked over in my throat, I hate this kind of case). Aunt Bich continued: yah, Thu, you take some times to take him go around, I afraid he will feel boring. My aunt followed: don’t mention it, she is unemployed now, let she goes with Jimmy. Thy smiled on me: you are specialize in going out, dear…I sit there can not say a word even “no” and actually no reason to say “no” so that I only could odd my head docilely and “yes”…
For 30 years, I only know I have 2 sisters and 3 cousins, I have not never thought that I still have one more cousin (that why my friends put a big question to me where this cousin come and why I always say busy for last 10 days. Snoopy asked: I knew your family very well, I have not never heard from you that you still have a cousin….Hang asked that you never mentioned about him, you lied, he is your new boyfriend, right? Linh; he is really your cousin, you praise him to the sky, I doubt you…..Yah, my dear friends, He is my cousin and this is the first time in my life, I go to meeting someone who I did not even know his face before. I looked on the gate where a lot of people run very quickly and guess who my cousin is (God help me, I hope he not very odd so that I can go out with him). Time coming, he appeared with glasses and the head look like a ball, his eyes is looking around and his bag swings on his big back.
He is white, 178 cm high, 85kg weight, strong point is his smile and weak point is his big eyes which really not match on his big face. But one thing for sure he is handsome. A handsome man 33 years old goes with a beautiful girl 30 years old is really perfect.
PART II: OH RELATIVE
Because of him, I have 1 more relative, his mom, I call aunt. Because our relative is not closely so that some of his relative I did not know and of course they did not know me either and that why they used to asked me: you are Jimmy’s girlfriend? The return of a son who was born in US makes he become an unavoidable superstar because everyone wants to know how Jimmy look like?
Ah, I have to tell your guys about our relative: his grandfather is older brother of my grandmother
PART III: HOW LUDICROUS I AM!
From the information which I got, he did not understand Vietnamese so that I do my new duty translation very ardent but when I heard he answered in…. Vietnamese, I felt how ludicrous I am suddenly.
I decided to speak in Vietnamese in the day after. But OMG, the same question but sometime the answer is yes, sometime is no…I dazed and looked at him…in case he continued to speak in Vietnamese I could not speak in English, look very ludicrous….one more day has gone. The third day, only I went out with him and I found that: he understood Vietnamese really good but sometime if he did not understand he just smile or said no and the best communication of us is: both of languages. It means he - American will speak Vietnamese and I – Vietnamese speak in English.
PART IV: FINAL
He came to Vietnam this time to visit his grandparents. His grandfather did not meet him for last more than 30 years…this is consequence of war.
His mother stayed in US for long time, fed him and taught him alone…she taught him Vietnamese, kept Vietnamese spirit for him….I respect her a lot. Some Vietnamese who even stays in Vietnam cannot teaches their children speak Vietnamese properly; of course it is not children fault.
Seeing him off, I said: if I come to know you look down on Vietnam, I will not talk with you anymore. He said: I never do it. He promised he try to come back Vietnam next year and he will ask me take him to Hoi An, Hue and other place
