Tooly joins the household
The biggest news of the weekend is that Tooly, the cat, joined the household yesterday.
She’s a small moggy with black and white colouring in patches on her face. She is a bit skittish but seems to have a nice nature.
Last night she wandered into my room and jumped up onto the bed - woke me up then she started playing with my silk kromah (the checked scarf the people here wear). Seems 4.00am is activity time - she’s definitely Khmer.
It’s nice to have an animal around. Apparently she’s mainly an indoor cat. And she doesn’t seem to make me sneeze - bonus!
A rooster is back next door but I suspect it is a different one because it isn’t nearly as noisy as the old one and hasn’t bothered me so far.
Had a couple of meals out on the weekend - Friday night, we had dinner up at the corner restaurant followed by a fruit shake and last night, Ana and I had dinner at Everest up on Sihanouk (main road).
We’re all going for a massage this afternoon at Seeing Hands - (despite the fact that I had one on Thursday) - but they’re just so good. I’m definitely going to miss that when I leave.
The manager of Austraining, the company which manages the Youth Ambassador program for Ausaid will be here this week. We have a group session with her on Tuesday then a dinner on Tuesday night.
There have been some issues among some of the other youth ambassadors in regards to health, finances and problems at work so there will be a few things to discuss.
It seems I have been the least affected by health problems here like gastro etc even though I have at times had ice and so on. Mark has told me that I must have a cast-iron stomach. I have never really had food poisoning so I guess I’m lucky.
Well I’m rambling on now about insignificant things because there’s not too much more to tell.
Bit nervous about the week ahead at work with training and so on. Should be fine but I think it will be quite an effort to do three morning sessions in the one week.
To end on a bit of a gloomy note, I’ve seen a few accidents around PP the last few days which has made me a bit nervous. You can always tell when there has been one because there is a crowd of people by the side of the road and then you see the motor bikes lying on their side on the road. I hate seeing them.
Saw it was 21 degrees in Sydney on the TV in the restaurant where we had lunch. Today is extremely heiss here again, has been quite coolish the last few days after the rains, a beautiful change.
Arive derci!
Ruth e xx
Miss Phnomer in Cambodia
