Me in Nha Trang - A Desperate Situation

Nha Trang is amazing but my situation sucks so bad!

I join tours with the intention of meeting new people and making friends, it worked super well in Hue but Nha Trang is a completely different case :(. In Hue I travelled in a group of 38 people, in Nha Trang, my group has... 7 peeps including me.

There are two grandparents who are DNers but have lived in the States for 30 years. At first when I talked to them I thought they were cool, and I mean like I can click with elders too, I wasn't having any problem with that. But then the grandpa turned out to be really really annoying. He gives me the impression that he thinks he's something better than others because he lives in the States. He likes me probably because I'm from Germany. But others? He talks ill about them behind their backs. And then he comes to me and tells me everything he thinks when I'm not even interested! It's really starting to piss me off! If you wanna judge people, leave me out of it please, thank you. T_T But the grandma is like super nice. She barely talks. Probably because her husband already talks enough for the both of them.

Then there are the two newlyweds from the North who are super nice too. I get along great with the two of them but like you know, they are newlyweds, they travel in a group but they do want their private time too. I totally get it. And the guy has to leave in like three days to continue his studies in Korea (Annoying Grandpa totally judging him because he didn't make it to the States but 'only' got a scholarship to Korea), so yeah...

Then there's this mother-daughter pair from the South who joined us late. Daughter - not talking at all and not smiling much. Mother - talking too much, laughing too loudly. I can't really talk to either of them. :((

And you know what's worse? Annoying Grandpa is fascinated by Big-mouthed Mother. She kind of thinks poorly of him but he's completely oblivious to it. He talked to her so much that his wife started to get jealous. Omgah I could totally see it on her face. At one point, she was suddenly super quiet and her eyes were staring daggers at Big-mouthed Mother... I really got the chills.

Now the grandma is not saying a word anymore. The grandpa and Big-mouthed Mother keep talking with each other, the daughter doesn't talk much per se, the two newlyweds talk amongst themselves and me, I'm the only one crying inside. T____T

Our group joined others to visit the islands today, we were over 40 overall. I was so happy at first, but then it turned out that the others were mainly Russians, who don't speak a word English! WHAT. IN. THE. WORLD.

I tried talking to a thirty-something guy who sat next to me on the boat in the very beginning. He's legit a non-English-speaker. Just shrugged at me and smiled politely before turning back to his camera. I was like okayyyy, next try. I kept a lookout and spotted three young guys travelling together, one of them quite handsome actually. I was like yes, check! The next time we went on the boat, I made sure to sit next to them. Then I picked up the convo with the guy who sat the nearest to me.

"You guys are all from Russia?"

"Yes." The guy nodded and smiled at me.

I was like HOLY SHIT ENGLISH!

"How long have you been in Nha Trang?"

He made a gesture that he didn't get it.

"Oh, do you speak English?"

"Not much," he laughed and pointed at his handsome friend. "He speaks English very well."

I was like 'ohhhh, I can live with that too!' :)). But then it turned out Handsome's 'very good English' didn't exceed 5 sentences either -_- We talked about Nha Trang and Moscow a little before they went back to Russian and me, I went back to crying inside. T_T

Then there were like those two twenty-something Vietnamese girls who were all lovey-dovey together - definitely a couple. They both looked very girly but everyone can see who wears the pants in the relationship. That one girl always opened the door for the other, put her arm around her girlfriend's shoulder and offered her shoulder for the other to lean on and stuff. I personally think she looks prettier than her girlfriend, in a very feminine way, but yeah, we know not all lesbians are butch.

Anyways, I tried talking to them too, of course. At first everyone was all nice and such, but then... I don't even know how it happened. =((

We were walking around to feed monkeys and I bumped into them. The girl-in-the-relationship girl smiled at me and I, being just myself, gave her an all-teeth smile back. Like come on, I was happy I finally found someone I could exchange more than 5 sentences with! I don't know what the manlier girl thought but she was suddenly staring at me, looking not amused at all. Then she pulled her girlfriend away from me.

I was totally baffled and didn't really understand until it suddenly got to me sometime later. The manlier one was jealous! Holy shit do I really look like I want something from your girl?!

Later when we went back to the boat, I went in early and sat in an empty row. The two of them followed me in and the girlier one pointed at the seat next to me and smiled. I smiled back and slid over to make place for them, but then the other just pulled her girlfriend away without even looking at me, saying loud and clear, "Let's sit over there!"

I mean like, come on! I didn't mean to hit on your girl! Do you have to be that possessive?! It's weird since you let her wear a cap that says 'SL*T'. I'm just saying.

Sigh.

I always thought making friends is the easiest thing when you just like smiling and are social enough. Guess I thought wrong.

Or I'm just having extremely bad luck here in Nha Trang.

T_T