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Hello everyone
Thanks for all the messages... what do you mean when do I start work??? I started on the second dya I got here! The centre where I'm working is such an amazing place, the children really have absolutely nothing... which means that they haven't really had much discipline in their lives up till njow!!! so can be little monsters but are so cute! I have no idea what any of them are called.... hthere names are so hard to remember!
I can't upload the pictures... eek, I think it is mjore to do with this computer rather than the camera so will try somewhere else at a later date... just wanted to show you the 2 brothels across the street. It is funny,. there are so many signs advertising 'massages' all over the place! Having said that Phenom Penh is a really lovely town and the people are so easy going! Even the chickens are more relaxed... yesterday I saw one on the back of a moto, just quietly sitting on the top of a wicker basket on the way tom the market!
Today, Mr Sopea, the director of the orphanage, showed me around some of the 'houses' where the children live... there were spaces about 10ft by 15ft where 10 people lived... they used to live in the provinces but sold their rice paddies to come to Phenom Penh and earn better money in the city. All they found was mounds of enemployment and unbelievable poverty. Mr Chamreoun told me yesterday 'the poor get poorer and the rich get richer'. In this house where 10 people lived, I spoke to the mother, she told me that the person that rents the 'house' to them had just raised the rent to $35 a month and she doesn't know how they will pay it... was heart renching.
Most of the poor earn money by collecting plastic from the bins and selling it on for miniscule amounts of money.
The roads are mad... with motos and tuk tuks all navigating there way into the tiniest of spaces, having said that- I actually feel quite safe on them because everyone goes quite slowly, as there is no other option! Something I sawe that really shows the nature of the Cambodian people was a car parked right across 2 lanes of what is their equivalent of the M6. Not one person shouted or said anything!!! I think this was partly due to the fact that the only person audacious enough to do that would be an official.... so nobody would say anything! It is bizzare, people show their importance by the sheer sizo of their car, there are tiny motos squeezed in beside giant Hummers! Needless to say the moto gets through the traffic quicker, ha!
Yesterday I went on Mr Chamreoun's moto... he got something in his eye and proceeded to drive whilst frantically rubbing and blinking one eye... swerving all over the road. As a replacement for his left eye he just used the horn an excessive amount... that is what they do here, use horns instead of indicators!
Tonight I think we are going to go out to a restaurant for puddings, Mmmm...t he food is nice but every now and then it would be nice to have a sweet western pudding... drool....drool...sticky toffee pudding! I've only ben here 3 days and I'm almost sick of rice! I've had 6 portions!
The flight over was amazing.... I didn't know that the Thai Airways air hostess have are on a cruisade to feed up all of their passangers... they spent the whole 13hours forcing food and drink on us... well, when I say forcing...!
It is soooooo hot... deff above 30 degrees C! And you'll be proud to hear that I haven' got burnt yet... nor have I had a mozzi bite. Although tonight I'm bound to end up with half a dozen on each leg and 3rd degree burns!
Ok, should go...
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