Not for the recently fed
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Yeah, I realize there are no photos on this blog, and really if I'm honest the ones that I look at the most have... well, more to look at. So I'll make the effort soon.
Life in Cambodia has settled down a little bit...we're managing to sleep on occations, and Fatty the cat recognizes who actually LIVES in the house now. bless him and his fat furry red gut.
The things that stuck me this week were:
Borrowing a bike from work that had no breaks (at all) which nearly fell apart when a passenger jumped on...apparently its not a problem, you know, no raised eyebrows at my stories of near death...ahh its still a bike, and I still made it to work.
the three deaths that occurred on Wednesday.
1. the first a woman fell off her balcony the sound of her head hitting the concrete woke my friend.
2. The second was a headless body that didn't even stop the traffic,
3. and the third a motodop that was run over by a lorry to the same effect as a road cruncher...they didn't even attempt to pick up parts of man or bike.
In Cambodia we don't flush toilet paper, you use either a bum gun (squirty hose) or you put the paper in a bin. So one of my flatmates not so recently left town leaving us with her poo bucket. eventually we could ignore it no longer and I took the offending article out to the road where we leave all garbage to be gone through before picked up dumped and gone through again...never mind .... so in the 3 seconds between putting the bucket down and driving off, a street lady wanders up, takes the lid off, empties contents to the ground (difficult as it had been sitting a good month) takes her shoes off, puts them inside the bucket returns the lid and continues on her way. Happy with her prize...stinky stinky prize.
Whist considering the above craiziness of Cambodia I also had my mind on a Ball that I must attend on Saturday for work. Its $100 a ticket, I must wear a gown, get my hair done, lather on make-up, and other such. The wage for a school teacher is $25 per month
Just a little contridiction happening huh?
ahh but again its the weekend...and I am sure Monday will be here in a moment, the weekend will seem like a life time.
Last weekend naked in the rain on our roof.....the last storm of the year.
Delicious.
Yeah, I realize there are no photos on this blog, and really if I'm honest the ones that I look at the most have... well, more to look at. So I'll make the effort soon.
Life in Cambodia has settled down a little bit...we're managing to sleep on occations, and Fatty the cat recognizes who actually LIVES in the house now. bless him and his fat furry red gut.
The things that stuck me this week were:
Borrowing a bike from work that had no breaks (at all) which nearly fell apart when a passenger jumped on...apparently its not a problem, you know, no raised eyebrows at my stories of near death...ahh its still a bike, and I still made it to work.
the three deaths that occurred on Wednesday.
1. the first a woman fell off her balcony the sound of her head hitting the concrete woke my friend.
2. The second was a headless body that didn't even stop the traffic,
3. and the third a motodop that was run over by a lorry to the same effect as a road cruncher...they didn't even attempt to pick up parts of man or bike.
In Cambodia we don't flush toilet paper, you use either a bum gun (squirty hose) or you put the paper in a bin. So one of my flatmates not so recently left town leaving us with her poo bucket. eventually we could ignore it no longer and I took the offending article out to the road where we leave all garbage to be gone through before picked up dumped and gone through again...never mind .... so in the 3 seconds between putting the bucket down and driving off, a street lady wanders up, takes the lid off, empties contents to the ground (difficult as it had been sitting a good month) takes her shoes off, puts them inside the bucket returns the lid and continues on her way. Happy with her prize...stinky stinky prize.
Whist considering the above craiziness of Cambodia I also had my mind on a Ball that I must attend on Saturday for work. Its $100 a ticket, I must wear a gown, get my hair done, lather on make-up, and other such. The wage for a school teacher is $25 per month
Just a little contridiction happening huh?
ahh but again its the weekend...and I am sure Monday will be here in a moment, the weekend will seem like a life time.
Last weekend naked in the rain on our roof.....the last storm of the year.
Delicious.
posted by Cathy at 3:06 pm
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