8-2016 Tran-Van-Binh
After the special Police ordeal; the loss of her parents, Loan finally moved in with aunt Tam; after all, aunt Tam was the only relative that Loan has in Dalat.
When the ripple of the Special Police had smoothened and Lien successfully had reinstated the license of café BoHo, Loan and Loan went back to work again, as if nothing had happened. Lien still flew happily among her customers, talking about their schools work, advising on their love life, or just recommending them what to order on the menu; while Loan, after moving in with aunt Tam, seemed more open and more confident in herself. Occasionally, she would close her book and stepped out of the counter and mingled with the regulars, and that was more than half …show more content…
"Look at those crazy American soldiers." Ka remembered one time when he was picking up his grandma from the Camly military airfield during noon time. She looked out the jeep 's plastic window and said :"Those American soldiers work under the sun without a shirt on their back. Look at their backs. All red. They will get sick after this. Not even a straw hat. They are crazy. Noon time is best for nap. Are you working for these American, Ka?" She talked while chewing her betel.
"No grandma. The American whom I had worked for always has shirt on his back and never worked under the sun, grandma." Ka didn 't have the nerve to tell his grandma that some of his "crazy" American friends even took sun bath on the China beach under the Cam Ranh sun
"Good boy. Remember, don’t work for these crazy American, you will get sick from them."
One of Ka 's lady colleagues also had told Ka that when her relative, who came from Saigon, knew that she had worked for the American and asked, with wide eyes :" You had worked for the American? My young lady. And what kind of work do you work for the
After the special Police ordeal; the loss of her parents, Loan finally moved in with aunt Tam; after all, aunt Tam was the only relative that Loan has in Dalat.
When the ripple of the Special Police had smoothened and Lien successfully had reinstated the license of café BoHo, Loan and Loan went back to work again, as if nothing had happened. Lien still flew happily among her customers, talking about their schools work, advising on their love life, or just recommending them what to order on the menu; while Loan, after moving in with aunt Tam, seemed more open and more confident in herself. Occasionally, she would close her book and stepped out of the counter and mingled with the regulars, and that was more than half …show more content…
"Look at those crazy American soldiers." Ka remembered one time when he was picking up his grandma from the Camly military airfield during noon time. She looked out the jeep 's plastic window and said :"Those American soldiers work under the sun without a shirt on their back. Look at their backs. All red. They will get sick after this. Not even a straw hat. They are crazy. Noon time is best for nap. Are you working for these American, Ka?" She talked while chewing her betel.
"No grandma. The American whom I had worked for always has shirt on his back and never worked under the sun, grandma." Ka didn 't have the nerve to tell his grandma that some of his "crazy" American friends even took sun bath on the China beach under the Cam Ranh sun
"Good boy. Remember, don’t work for these crazy American, you will get sick from them."
One of Ka 's lady colleagues also had told Ka that when her relative, who came from Saigon, knew that she had worked for the American and asked, with wide eyes :" You had worked for the American? My young lady. And what kind of work do you work for the