The wooden house on Street 410
A quick update before we go and catch our taxi to our NEW HOUSE!!
We have decided to take the wooden house in Street No. 410. The city is designed in a grid pattern and each street is numbered - only the very few main roads have names.
It’s a great house and I hope to get some photos of it sometime. We negotiated the lease yesterday and are going over to sign it this afternoon at 3pm. The family are getting us extra bed, fan and desk. I will be the one with little “annex” room which we are going to create. I’m hoping to find some rattan screens to section it off and it will open onto the balcony. We’re very excited about having our own place!
It is usual to have a house-keeper here who will clean and cook a couple of times a week. We all feel a bit weird about that but we have been talking about it to people here who have told us that there are few employment options for women and we hope that we are contributing in some way to the local economy. Still, takes some getting used to.
I will write more later on my meeting with my host organisation, The Womens Media Centre. It went well and it is an inspiring organisation.
Jum Reap Ly (I think that’s good-bye)
Ruth e xx
Miss Phnomer in Cambodia
