book stealing student thief

what a strange day today....

i walked around in a buz it felt like a dream, i wasnt all there.
church went by quick then i feel asleep in the afternoon without eating anything. when i woke up it was pitch black outside. it was only 6:30 but it felt like a new day, plus i slept in my clothes so i was a bit crusty. so then isaac and me went out for a drink up at the lake side and ended the evening in the internet cafe, hence this post.

isaac bought another tuk-tuk this week which means he has about 6. he rents them out to khmer guys to run a business with, for whatever reason he has three of them in his front room. im going to steal one next month for a few weeks.

so much is changing at the moment, it seems like one of those times where nothing is the same from one week to the next, particularly whilst im here and a lot is going on back in the UK. you imagine that everything will be just as you left it, but i know that worthing will be a different place and people will be doing different things. the glory days are over and a new era has begun!

good news on the university front. midge is going to type up some khmer invitation slips for me and sothy to hand out at the uni on friday. we're going to invite students to the church for an english conversation club. its exciting, i went up to the uni on saturday and i recon we can get something up and running. even if nothing happens its nice to spend some time with sothy outside church and make some memories. we're going over to his uni as well so i think we could meet quite a large bunch of people, even on saturday when there were no classes the uni was pretty busy with people sitting round studying. plus the grounds are soo nice, a big lake and massive fields right up by the bank kak lake area of the city. its worth a visit just to walk around, i want to go and check out their library, i dont know if they will let me just walk in, but there wasnt anyone on the gate on saturday and the library door was wide open without a single responsible looking person in view...brillant.
so ive become a book stealing student abducter thief man. im sure the authorities will love me.

on a positive note, physically i have been very well and have had no problems with the police or traffic accidents etc. i havent really had a bad stomach or any other unmentionables...you know what i mean. so thanks for your suport and all that.

i cant believe that a third of my time has passed already. thats why im excited about the university stuff, i really want to leave a mark on the church here and if i can get a good group emerge from our friday conversation club and introduce them inot the church i think it will set some good foundations for future growth. steve seems pretty positive about the whole idea and i think he is excited that im steping out a bit and getting around on my own and trying to start things up. what else am i here for? other than the cheap beer and hot weather...
christmas is odd in such hot weather and its only getting hotter, it is the complete oposite of last year at heene road where we all slept with a half dozen layers on! happy days.

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Ben.