'they' (who ever they are)

sorry for my lack of blogging recently. i have just moved into a new flat, which in some ways is good, i have my opwn space, although i've never lived alone before and all the responsibility of being responsible is weighing me down.

im sending a couple of packages home this week, they (who ever they are) have made a Khmer worship CD, which is basically the latest hillsongs album translated. everyone here thinks its great. i've got to be honest i dont agree, but if the khmer love it then who am i to disagree?

christmas is fast approaching, there is an odd feeling in the air about christmas here. officially they dont celebrate it...because they are buddhist. however they have lights, trees, santas, carols and christmas shops everywhere. which i really wasnt expecting, so im getting in a festive mood, plus it rained yesterday which is very rare for december and is about the closest it gets to snow.

after my performance with the katalyst christmas show last year in worthing i vowed never to do it again, unfortunately no one from cambodia was there to see it and they all believe i will do a better job this year. i am less convinced, either way we have some funny songs and poems and even a bit of monty python slipped in there, of course the kids have never heard of monty python so they dont get the joke...its all adult humor. they think im crazy laughing my head off at the most stupid things but i've spoent alot of time convincing them the adults will love it.

its odd to be somewhere where people leave to go home for christmas, literally half the church isnt going to be here. i have always been on the other end, welcoming people back for christmas from their various travels. haveing said all that there is alot of what happens here that i've never done or seen before. i think thats why im always soo tired, because im always doing and seeing new things, this really is a crazy country.

one of the problems of living in this new flat is i am faced with the old classic 2 hardest decisions of the day scenario i was so accoustomed to in heene road.

1. should i get out of bed?
2. should i get out of the shower?

once these two have been made im set for the day, problem is the day starts quite late because my decision making is slowed by the introduction of a luke warm shower. after 2 1/2 months of ice cold showers its an odd feeling to have a warm shower every day, its even stranger to get out of the shower and feel cold. i wonder how i will adjust back into the european climate, i will probably have to wear jumpers for a few months!

'they' (who ever they are) have deemed it possible for me to go to sydney in march, which is good news although i havent got the official go ahead from headquarters in sydney. i was thinking i might try and organise a trip to japan in may. its a fair distance but if i can afford it and have the time why not? after all im already half way round the world why not go the other half? i guess id end up home then right?

this is ben tucker reporting for blogger news on a rather uninteresting day in phnom penh.

Ben.