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Published: February 21st 2006
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Hey hey!
I apologise for delay in news! It's tricky to find a place that allows me to upload my photos onto my blog and therefore I tend to not want to write until I can get most of my pictures on a CD, making it easier to upload. I know how boring it is to read the blog without pictures!!! Although I am updating this blog now these news were from before TET holiday so before the end of January - net update will be Tet holiday and then after that more current news! I'm so sorry I'm a bad friend!!!!
Last month my neighbours bought a dog. An old puppy, not quite yet an adult, and the younger ones were quite keen to show off the dog - the "Look what we got" kind of expression! Vietnamese tend not to name their pets so it was no surprise when the neighbours hadn't named their dog. The first night the dog spent in its new home, it whined and barked so much that I got no sleep! The following morning Chinh sent me a message asking me if I had slept well and when I left the house
to go shopping I saw him and explained to him how much noise the dog had made and that because of it I was really tired! I then jokingly said (in Vietnames - check me out!!) When are you going to eat the dog??! It whines all night and I cannot get any sleep! Remember these were the neighbours that had eaten dog for Christmas (could someone send me the RSPCA logo sticker - a dog is not just for Christmas...?) but I truly wasn't expecting them to eat it. Chinh looked horrified that I had even mentioned to kill it and kept shaking his head and saying no, so I took his word for it. Every day for about 10 days the dog would whine and bark throughout the night and every night I would wish it dead. It was a Tuesday when I was walking out of my house to go and do my daily market shopping when Chinh engages me in conversation and tells me with many gestures that the dog has died... more like killed. He sticks his hand in his neck repeatedly as if to say we have knifed him in the neck and he's dead. I was shocked because they had said a week before that they weren't going to kill it. I looked around for it anbd sure enough he was nowhere to be found. Whatever, I thought.. and went about my daily business. It was time to leave for work and Hoa (one of the teaching assitants who works at my school) came to pick me up (NEWS flash: I have no motorbike at the moment as I am saving up to buy one!!!) and as I am leaving my house I look over at the neighbours. Picture this if you can... the dad (who is a lovely, lovely man) is poking a heap of charcoal on the alleyway floor trying to get it lit (same same as a barbeque back home), the door to their house is wide open and that's when I see it. The dog has been shaved and is lying on a try on top of their motorbikes. It was the most bizarre sight I have ever seen. Of course my instant reaction was to grab my camera and get a photo!!! From where I was standing I could only see the dogs back and the back of its head and I didn't feel comfortable enough to go around and have a look at the dog's head and face so I put my camera away and climb onto the back of Hoa's motorbike. But no. The neighbours are not happy with this so the dad grabs the dog by its paws and turns it around so that now I can see that the dog has been gutted and sown up with metal wiring and his face is all bloody. Once again my gut reaction is to take another picture (come on guys.. it is the best way to document this!) and daddy, as you will see in the picture, looks like all of his Christmases and birthdays have come at once!! The dad was prepping a barbeque outside his house with firelighters and charcoal ready to roast the poor beast. I missed out on the bbq as I had to head into work (shame....). I went to work and as much as the neighbours 'xin moi'd me (if a person in Vietnam xin moi's you it means you are invited to eat/drink.. and it's seen as rude not to) I didn't eat any of this dog. I felt awful that I had been partially to blame for its death and I had also seen it alive so makes it all the harder to digest... I didn't get any pictures of the dog on the spit but for those of you who want to see some pictures visit my housemates blog on http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Moesha--Mo--Sassy/
For now this is all... hope you are all doing ok!
Rooj xxx
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