one for the ladies

well last night was sheer torment, as it turns out the electricity on my street has been out for a few days and there is something wrong with the line under ground. apparently they are fixing it now but who knows really. unfortunately i didnt know this last night and spent much time on my knees praying god to turn the power back on, sleeping without a fan is hell on earth and i barely got any shut eye last night at all. also because the street is only a dirt road and isnt concrete it floods prett badly. last week i returned home from the market duing a pretty heavy thunder storm and was obviously soaked to the bone, i arrived to see about half a dozen people, including sothy, out on the street btrying to unblock the drains becaue the entire road was under a foot of water. sothys house competely flooded and all the drains were wide open and their contence spread out on the higher ground. the next morning, goes without saying, was a pretty smelly one for the occupants of obekom village. indeed i had top hold me nose whilst opening the gate in the morning another bummer was it was a sunday so a load of people were coming. smelly.

its going to be nice and stress free i think not having to put up with monsoon flash flooding and electic blackouts. get this...they actually publish the dates and times of the city blackouts, they have to plan them and tell the people becaue they dont have enough gererators to power the whole city all the time, again unfortunately they only publish the times in the khmer paper so even if i wanted to find out i wouldnt be able to read them. despite reaching a reasonable level of spoken language i have only learnt to write two words in khmer, a little party trick...one for the ladies.

so things are changing and im getting more impatient about geting the next 10 days over with as stress free as possible and just enjoying my two weeks in New Zealand. which i am massively looking forward to now. middle earth awaits the return of the king.

King Ben.