Observations

1. Filling an entire day without napping or reading for a few hours is impossible.
2. The most terrifying things about this country have four legs or more .
a. COWS – yesterday on my run, a youngster cow in the herd charged me then did a fake out right before contact, when my life was flashing before my eyes.
b. dogs
c. all bugs
3. Anything can count as a vegetable. Anything. As long as it’s green it has ‘vitamins’
4. Cambodia loves Korea. Daewoos are quite popular, along with horrible tv shows, and k-pop fashion.
5. Fabric softener saves you from washing your clothes again after it takes 3 days to dry.
6. Pointing really is a great means to conversing.
7. Mosquito bites make your legs look like you’re 7 years old again.
8. Along with wearing a sports watch.
9. Along with having a mosquito net that seems like a fort.
10. Bike helmets are silly, but necessary.
11. Seeing live larva before it being cooked will not make me want to eat it, no matter how delicious it is.
12. Understanding of the restrictions of ‘vegetarianism’ is impossible. Example: to the liver that was being served Brother: “eat” Me: “no, I still don’t eat meat.” Brother: “it’s not meat its blood” (or it could have been ‘its not meat its sheep’ which are the same word)
13. Car seats on motos come in many forms. Most popular is the hands method: one kid on each knee and then the arm wrap around. My personal favorite is contraption I think used to move feed or stuff. It goes across the back of the moto/dirt bike seat, a frame with two squares parallel to the ground of either side then bars that hold it on the seat, attached to the frames are literally rice bags…. and inside the bags were kids…latest Fisher Price line???
14. Anything can be purchased the same way fish are bought at the fist store in America in a clear plastic bag with a rubber band from pig lard, to hot coffee or tea, to fabric softener.
15. If it rains, everything floods and no one does anything.
16. Buying breakfast of coffee and muffins for 50 cents each morning makes me really happy
17. Buying a fresh fruit smoothie for 35 cents is also amazing. more amazing that the lady has rickshawed electricity to her stand in the middle of a parking lot/food selling/hanging out area to power a blender.
18. Eating rice 3 times a day doesn’t make Cambodians fat.
19. The clouds here during rainy season are amazing
20. Dragonflies are glorified insects.
21. Squatty Potties lead to peeing on your feet.