Sunday, August 10, 2008

Phnom Penh, Cambodia Day 2

I slept till pretty late today because Makara said she will only come and pick me at 1pm. I really didn't want to go out so I stayed in to catch up on my blog. I ordered some room service in and basically just waited. I was quite happy to see that one of the cable channels my hotel has is Channel News Asia. I’m a big fan and they’ve got some pretty good documentaries. Plus, they have Singapore's Channel 8 as well at night. I'm not sure why only at night but hey, better then nothing.Anyway, Makara came quite late. When she came, it was about 3pm. She told me there was someone who wanted to meet me and we were going to meet her before going to see Naomi. It turns out it was my ex student who wanted to meet me. For those who don’t know, I worked in Phnom Penh for about 4months teaching English to ladies from the ages of 18-25. This ex student, her name is Kanga. She is studying economics at Norton University. She was one of my better students in class. We met her just opposite her school at one of the Campus Crusade for Christ’s branches. She is currently working as a volunteer at CCC in the afternoons after school.Me and KangaAfter meeting Kanga, we left to go to Naomi’s house. Naomi used to be the administrator at the school I taught in. Now she has left to teach in another school. We were pretty close when I was in Phnom Penh. So it was a good time just catching with each other. We were at her place pretty long…at least for 2hours or more. I had bought a hamper for Naomi and her son Kevan was so excited and kept wanting to open it because he saw the tibits inside. His mother was so embarassed and kept asking him to stop. It was dark when we prepared to leave. As we were putting on our shoes preparing to leave, Makara couldn’t find her shoes. It turns out Sophie, Naomi’s daughter, likes to hide people’s shoes around the house. So all of us went searching round the house for Makara’s shoes. It was about ten minutes later when Sophie found her shoes behind some potted plants. Once Makara wore her shoes, we left.Naomi, her daughter Sophie, her son Kevan and me.Since Makara had to go home for dinner, I went to the nearby internet shop near my hotel to use the internet and print some stuff. I was there from 1930 to about 2300. By the time I left, I couldn’t find anywhere serving food so I went back to the hotel hungry.I watched a little of Norbit then went to sleep.

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