Well I guess we had another 4th of July and fyi
living overseas believe me when I say that the Brits are still hostile about us
throwing that tea over board haha. Im sure they are just sad bc almost every
country has a freedom from the UK but what do they get nada. I played with some
sparklers and that was about it the embassy has 5 dollar tickets but there is
to many people and not enough food for the 5 bucks. On other good news I got my camera working
again so I will soon to have a million new pics to share with you all of my new
office etc. o right its presidential
elections in Cambodia and I can fully heartily admit USA elections r crazy in
their own way Cambodia has a whole different kind of crazy! For ex only the
ruling party has space to set up events so the opposition parties are forced to
be on the move all the time so there are like 1000 kids n moto’s with flags
representing their party in oncoming traffic and when u on a bike and they come
at u the best way I can describe it to you guys it’s like that part in the lion
king when Siba and his dad on in the stampede. The whacked out thing is that the current
ruling party pays university students 10 dollars a day to stand on the side of
the rd so the party looks cool hip etc and all of the parties go around blasting
music but the ruling party has the most money so they seem to have I kid u not
trucks with movie screens on them playing music videos of the current
president. I should also not delude u to think any of this is a fair election
however all the parties do try to gain votes im pretty sure the current party
has to win and yeah there is an or else. In the papers it’s been stated by the
current ruling party president if he loses there will be civil war it will be
all the CNRP fault (that’s the most popular party) anyways I just thought bc
CPP (the current ruling party) has been in power for the past 20 years they
sort of had his in the bag however the stuff coming out in the papers r all the
threats the current P.M is making is as if he is nervous and im not sure I understand
why. It also goes without saying u do not want to be an ngo or work in the gov
and not support the cpp im pretty for what I understand u can lose ur job esp
if u r in the gov and don’t help run the campaign. As for the war I don’t see
it actually happening bc I really don’t think cpp will lose (too much
corruption at the voting booth) however incase to ease ur minds I will leave
Phnom Penh for the weekend of the election bc that’s where all the military is
however poor Cambodians really think that if that happens that America will
send in our military to uphold democracy. Though we did get free of the press back in Cambodia
VOA VOICE OF AMERICA is a huge radio station in Cambodia esp in the village
level and the ruling party kicked them out a week ago for the month of the
elections and the US Embassy I think said no more funding blah blah and two
days later VOA and all other foreign press was allowed back in it should be
noted that Khmer press is owned by the current party so the only way to get a
fair balance of news is though things like the VOA my host dad loves the VOA
when I lived with him he used to tell me all sorts of things and ask me
questions and when he realized VOA had a web site would make me go online. Well
ill stop with the political update bc I have some stories about the cream of
wheat guy which know u all love to read about! Okay so I may have mention that
im not sure if he is mentally challenged or messing with me it goes back and
forth bc im always so unsure but now im back on the though process that he is
messing with my head. So the other day he updates on his Skype that he is in Cambodia
now im like wtf is this real or not I don’t know??? The thing about him though
is I can’t ask him bc if he is messing with my head that’s what he wants me to
do bait me to see if ill flip out it’s like the longest game of war I have ever
played with someone anyways then he tries to call me but im at work so I don’t pick
up and bc I have skype plus even if im not on I can get voicemail messages but
he did not know this so he did not know that I would know he called basically
all I heard in my voicemail was click click. Now im thinking why is he calling
me unless he is already in Cambodia so now I have to call my host sister to
warn her and to warn jentu as well bc he hated jentu and I dunno could see him
trying to pull something with her as well. I already had plans to go to the
village for a day bc it was my host moms bday so I thought I can figure out
more when im there. Side the bday party
was fun the thing about my host mom is I think she encourages me to do things
that r not culturally normal but things she has wanted to do in her life. Well in
between the next interaction I had with cream of wheat guy my host grandmamma died
of what exactly not sure this is what I can guess maybe she had hpv that turned
into uterus cancer that then spread to her bones this is all a guess though
based on what they told me her symptoms were. I sort of felt like the whole her
dyeing was a freak show I don’t think my description will do it justices but
she has been really sick for a month I guess it got really bad this past Friday
so every single older person in the village with all these monks persist spend
24 hours a day at my host grandmamma house. Meanwhile the day that she died they
take out her ivy which I told them not to bc she was going to be in pain but
they were like no this will help her die I knew that was wrong. I also don’t think
they moved her since the last time I was there so she just had a blood clot
pooling in her forehead it was a bit much to see. Then in Cambodian culture you
give money to family to help with the funeral when I went to give them money bc
she was still alive they made me put the money in her hand which was also a bit
much. I went back and from my house to my g-mamas house at one point im sitting
down with a bunch of monks who are writing on a chalk board predicting the
future I thought it was for the old lady talking to him but no it turns out
they were trying to predict when my g-mama was going to die (the monk was wrong
he said Monday but it was Sunday night at 10pm). Meanwhile there are rows of
chairs lined up with people just sort of looking on like a show of someone
about to die. I left for the last time bc I realized the likelihood that she
was going to chock on her own fluids and die really slowly bc I asked if they
were going to give her meds to put her to sleep and they were like no we don’t have
any. That’s when I knew that’s was too much for me to handle and they were not
getting the things I was asking them. Well in between my visits to the sideshow
I go online to see if we could get in touch with Jenta my host sister living in
Korea when cream of wheat guy calls me. I debated not answering it however the
game plan was to see where he was I am pretty sure he is not in Cambodia now
but not positive. He just went on and on about how he is looking at Chinese
women online that he wants a new wife once again I debate how stupid can he
be?!?! There is no way the us gov will let him have a foreign wife anyways he
is doing this shit bc he was convinced with his big ego that jentee would miss
him first but she is so over him that she thinks its funny how desperate he is.
Then he brought up these annoying wedding pics to send them to my dad’s house I’ll
get them when I am home but then he is like well I have other pics to ill give
u as if he has creepy pics I dunno this guy has a few screws loose. The rest of
my weekend was spent in class im taking a class on the impact of education in society
its been interesting its has prompted me to read about America and education it’s
called academically adrift im only on chapter 3 but its address the major gaps
in higher education and labor market etc. well till next time peace out from
the other side of the world!
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