The bananas were half priced today

Pham Thi Anh Sang

Inwardly, Anh Sang was the most pleased she had been all day. Outwardly, um. Okay, it showed through pretty clearly. She still wasn't good with this hiding emotions thing. It seemed kind of dumb to her, really.

"Yay, okay!" With the brightest smile, she handed over the sack of bananas, completely trusting that Wei would honor his side of this deal. "Can we start like now? I don't think anybody's using the kitchen right now." She should know, of course. She had only used it like a gazillion times in the last week. Most people had kind of giving up on bothering her in there now.

"Oooh, do you have any ideas for cookies? Fruit things?" She asked with wide eyes. He was a monkey boy, after all. "Fruit is always good in stuff."

Pham Thi Anh Sang

This wasn't something that a lot of people knew but Anh Sang loved apples. Loved apples. She loved them like monkeys -oh, and um, Wei!- loved bananas. So the fact that Wei had mentioned them right off the bat meant that Anh Sang's opinion of him was skyrocketing. It wasn't to Morgan levels yet but it might have already gotten to Marina levels.

Wei was cool. This was now a solid fact in her head. When she looked at him, there were almost literal stars in her eyes. "What kind of apples? Red ones, green ones, oh, should we actually buy them or just look for some in the kitchens?" She really should have been asking what kind of nuts, too, but. Apples. Just.

Pham Thi Anh Sang

The thought of apples made her mouth water. Just a little. She liked them fine when they were freshly cut and such but putting them in baked things were even better. Besides, biting into stuff was such a pain. Her teeth were a bit too soft to do it comfortably.

She trailed after the boy as they went to the kitchen. "Um, walnuts?" Anh Sang repeated the word a few more times to herself before remembering that was what she had gotten at the cafe with Marina earlier. Sometimes her food vocabulary was a bit lacking. It was just so. So hard to remember things she didn't eat a lot. "Oh, yeah! I can have walnuts! I don't think I'm really allergic to anything so I can just eat anything I want!"

"Is there anything else that goes well with that, though?" She asked. After all, apples and walnuts were good but there had to be other options, too. Not that she was complaining. "Is just two things too simple, or?"

Pham Thi Anh Sang

"Ohhh, apple cider is the best!" Of course, Anh Sang didn't know how to make it either but. It was just like making juice, right? You just. Cut up apples a lot and maybe mushed them around. She didn't think that they were supposed to step on them, though, because apples weren't squishy like grapes. Or maybe they were supposed to? Cooking was hard.

"Okay, so two cookies and something to drink!" To be totally honest, Anh Sang only had a hazy idea of how this whole competition thing was happening. It seemed like for the most part, she was ending up doing things with the other people who were running anyways. Friendly competition was all around.

"Wait, should we use the internet for things? I think they have cookbooks around in the kitchens but I don't understand the measurements." Everything in English was just written so funny. Half of the time. That was the strangest part. It was only half the time when it was weird.

Pham Thi Anh Sang

She stopped and actually thought about it. "Wei," Anh Sang said slowly, so solemn that it was actually hilarious. "I think we're going to have a problem. Um."

The girl had always assumed that students who were older just, like. Magically figured out how to use English measuring things. Because that was kind of mysterious and tricky and totally something that you would need magic to figure out. For some reason, the translation spells just didn't help with that. Though Anh Sang personally wasn't relying on the spell and really was speaking English on her own, well. That was kind of the hard way, wasn't it?

"So, should we internet, then?" She wondered. "I mean. I guess we should, but. But it can't be too hard, right? To just do it?" Well, of course, what she meant was that it would be pretty hard but it wasn't going to be awful. So. That was fine, right?