Koto's christmas party....

Tonight was the xmas party at Koto.  Each member of staff was given the name of a trainee to buy a gift for...limited to 100,000vd value.  I took up the challenge with great relish and shopped around to find as many bits as I could.  Eventually I decided on a pair of diamonte hair slides, a cute pink hair band and a pair of snuggly' Fendi' gloves...and the wee girl who got the gift seemed very happy with it all.
The party started with xmas carols and a bit of a talent show.  As it was obviously all in Vietnamese I had no idea what was going on so I think I'll just post the photos and you can draw your own conclusions....

Appreciative audience...

Mr Doan and the gorgeous wee daughter of Ms Hung.

Mr Hai in his scarf...all the trainees made scarves for the staff.

The tree decorated with the cards the trainees made for the staff.

Some of the kids put on little shows...I have no idea about what but it went down well...

This little mite thought it was hilarious...

More playacting...

Our very own Vietnamese santa...

 We had to make all the desserts, we made a trio of Buche de Noels, carrot cakes, mudcakes and tropical trifles with tropical fruit and a huge gingerbread house display.

Our interpretation of Buche de Noel

Carrot cakes...

Mr Doan finishing the mudcakes...

Doan's mince tarts...

My Vietnamese gingerbread house display...bit rough but it did the job...

We had to have a cafe on the side...

 ...and of course there had to be a scooter....

So now xmas is over and things can settle down a bit...well, I hope they can.  Next post I will show you some of the photos of the Dream Bottle ceremony; a moving and important step for the new group of trainees.