Day 3 - Sun. June 11th
Today we took a kid named Makara from the "center" and 2 of his friends to the countryside -- to visit his family that he hasn't seen in quite a while. We arranged for a taxi and ended up taking a 20 year old toyota. I think this was it's last trip. We barely made it back.
The trip should've taken 1-2 hours and instead took 3 1/2 because a protest had blocked the road. There are 3 very strong political parties in Cambodia anda lot of activity, so we hear. Makara's parents (farmers) had traveled 4 hours by boat to meet at his sister's house where we went. We took him to the market in advance to pick up some food to bring. He chose dried fish. We knew we've had to eat it, so we got watermelon and pineapple too. His family was so sweet to us. They said "they had eaten already"and served us scoop after scoop of stuff that was hard for us to stomach. I have attached pictures of the house. It was really neat -- on stilts, just open air with rafters etc. We ate on the floor. I guess the fish is somewhat of a delicacy because it was quite expensive ($7) and everyone devoured it. Michele and I did our best to pick and say it was delicious as they stared at us the whole time to see our reaction. I have never tasted anything so fishy as the sauce that they scooped onto my rice.
Last night, we went to dinner at quite a nice place across town (where I am told more expats live) with Drew and his mom and her friend (they are from east coast and came out of 3 weeks).
Had a good dinner, but Michele and I ended up getting on motorbikes (you ride on the back -- we had avoided them, but there was no other option last night). My guy takes off in the wrong direction into the most deserted part of town and I was telling him that it was the wrong way, turn around and he didn't speak a single word of english and obviously had heard the wrong directions. I actually started to cry. We finally turned around and thank god found Drew, his mom and Sandra walking home. Anyway, just a misunderstanding -- it was all fine. We then had our third daily (11pm) massage before bed :)
Today we took a kid named Makara from the "center" and 2 of his friends to the countryside -- to visit his family that he hasn't seen in quite a while. We arranged for a taxi and ended up taking a 20 year old toyota. I think this was it's last trip. We barely made it back.
The trip should've taken 1-2 hours and instead took 3 1/2 because a protest had blocked the road. There are 3 very strong political parties in Cambodia anda lot of activity, so we hear. Makara's parents (farmers) had traveled 4 hours by boat to meet at his sister's house where we went. We took him to the market in advance to pick up some food to bring. He chose dried fish. We knew we've had to eat it, so we got watermelon and pineapple too. His family was so sweet to us. They said "they had eaten already"and served us scoop after scoop of stuff that was hard for us to stomach. I have attached pictures of the house. It was really neat -- on stilts, just open air with rafters etc. We ate on the floor. I guess the fish is somewhat of a delicacy because it was quite expensive ($7) and everyone devoured it. Michele and I did our best to pick and say it was delicious as they stared at us the whole time to see our reaction. I have never tasted anything so fishy as the sauce that they scooped onto my rice.
Last night, we went to dinner at quite a nice place across town (where I am told more expats live) with Drew and his mom and her friend (they are from east coast and came out of 3 weeks).
Had a good dinner, but Michele and I ended up getting on motorbikes (you ride on the back -- we had avoided them, but there was no other option last night). My guy takes off in the wrong direction into the most deserted part of town and I was telling him that it was the wrong way, turn around and he didn't speak a single word of english and obviously had heard the wrong directions. I actually started to cry. We finally turned around and thank god found Drew, his mom and Sandra walking home. Anyway, just a misunderstanding -- it was all fine. We then had our third daily (11pm) massage before bed :)
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