apocalyptic rain storms

little bo looking cute in his traditional khmer shirt for the wedding.

sothy reading a bible verse

verne and polly

the uni.

klang na (very strong) boy from the village.

this is a phoo from the christmas party at the destiny rescue building in stung men chay village the day i left cambodia for england. this is pat playing some games with the kids.

sothy looking suspicious. either planning to steal my wallet or cut my break cables. and his friend mr.koy looking on in sheer delight, i really dont know what he was doing!

me and so-wat (sovath)

danik (daneth) and verne

the wedding on aturday. dar and ratana on the right of centre have been coming to our church on and off for a few months.

its been a funny old week. a few things have happened that have been interesting experiences. on our way back from cell group on friday night me and pat got caught in one apocalyptic rain sorm that left us both looking like a fish out of water, yet i was still surprisingly warm. it s nearly hitting 40 degrees at midday and just a hot at night. as i pulled into the church my bike skidded on the tiles and i whamed into the wall and took a layer of skin off my arm then proceeded to almost run over our live in toad, bernard.

the wedding was really great, very small but very nice. the food was great which is alway something to compliment although i left feeling a bit bloated after eating my body weight in curry. well worth it. jenifer and hiep, whos house the wedding was held at have also been coming along to the church for a fe months and their boys come to the kids club. they have a zoo in their back garden. the only really interesting creatures are their monkey which is tied to a tree and a sloth which looked dead but was obviously asleep as they are night life maniacs. they also have kittens, bunnies, guniee pigs and a pony. pretty cool i say.

then today we went out for lunch after church and down to the asia club to go swimming, a very obvious and popular among the expat community here. in fact last week we bumped into the evans family and all their mental kids, who i lived with before. polly came along aswell which was nice and it was his first time going swimming in a pool, he has been swimming in the lake and river, neither of which would make a particularly pleasent experience. it was great to spend some time with him. we got chatting after about the khmer language and midge started quizzing polly about various gramatical confusions and made me start wishing i had done some more language lessons. i can only write two words and cannot read any more than those, id love to be able to speak more freely aswell. ive learnt enough to get by comfortably and feel like i can express myself and make myself understood but no more than that. which i regret. its all good fun though!

more pics soon.

Ben.