March 13

Caught up on a bunch of reading for class today, very boring. Our friend, Gabby came over to pick up some stuff she had stored at our house over the school break. So, we caught up with her and discussed what had happened in the past couple months, etc. She owed me some money from Thailand, so she finally paid me back! Whoo! But Jillian warned me that there've been some fake bills going around, especially the yellow $50 bills. She quickly checked mine and told me that indeed I had received a counterfeit. I guess on the real bills, the name is listed under the photo, but in the fakes, there's no name. She told me she had gotten a fake bill from a gas station ATM recently and spent it. Most Aussies don't even know about this problem which is apparently pretty rampant, so we'll just act dumb and go along using it as legitimate tender. We met up with my friends from California for dinner because they are leaving tomorrow and I immediately used my counterfeit $50 to pay for the bill, making it the restaurant's problem!

Then, on our way home, the taxi-driver tried to screw us over! We started going the wrong way, toward Ashgrove, but I justified it in my mind that he was going to get on the freeway or something. Then I watched him continue to Ashgrove, ignoring two of his GPS's directions! So, I yelled at him and said that we were going the wrong way! He said he was just following his directions and I pointed out that he wasn't. So, he turned and we went over by Caxton St, and up Milton, the right way. But then we didn't turn into Milton, we kept going straight. By this time I had already told him that I am familiar with the price of a taxi from the valley to our house and it's usually $16 (the meter already read $15 and we weren't close to home) and I told him that I wasn't going to pay more than that because he was taking us the wrong way. But he went straight through Milton and around over by the circle to get to our house. Very weird. I'm not sure why he was wasting his gas. I guess Vietnam isn't the only place where they try to screw you over! Ugh. 

Apparently our mold situation will be fixed soon. The insurance company is processing the claim, so we should get stuff fixed in the next couple weeks. =(