It’s Election Day and so half of the population of Phnom Penh has left the city to go to their villages to vote leaving a very quiet city with everything shut down.
As the city was almost completley shut down, the Khmer church was too, and so Gary, Bev and I went for a walk and these are a couple of the pictures we took:
(Anyone want some frogs? They are still alive, just missing their skin.)
(A man shaving bamboo.)
(A monk doing his morning begging/collecting food for the day.)
(Kids squirting a naked baby with sugar juice.)
This afternoon I decided to take advantage of the cool breeze and go for a walk around the neighbourhood. I ended up at Wat Phomn which is a park built around a temple. I sat down on a bench and a guy with a slight cognitive impairment came and sat with me. I tried to talk with him but that didn’t go so well, but he was fascinated with my watch and my water bottle. After he left a bunch of guys came and started talking to me. It was kind of fun. When the first guy came he picked up my shoe to examine it (because I had my shoe off and had my leg tucked under me on the bench), when the others saw him they soon migrated over and joined in the fun. I was able to understand some of what they said. Yay! It was nice talking to some people my own age... I just wish there were girls there too. A couple of young kids joined us and one of the guys took a baby from them and started playing with her. He passed the baby to me so I got to played with her (meanwhile, I was praying that she wouldn’t pee on me as their idea of diapers is just going without any diaper or pants). She was cute and kept grabbing my nose. Afterwards, I walked home and started talking to a neighbourhood girl. She has been studying English and was so excited to practice it with me. It was so much fun to just to get to know some of the local people.
1 comment:
Bring me back a skinned frog please... alive! :-)
Glad everything is going well still. We got your postcard yesterday. Keep up the good work!
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