This last month as been crazy and I have been geeking it up (even more than usual). Weekends have been spent getting numb buttocks crunching numbers, and trying not to blow the power supply by cranking the air-con! The result is that we have been able to show a significant increase in the quality of life of the children we treat when we go out on mobile clinics, and we have been able to show an association between stunting and severe decay in pre-school children (Watch this space for publications!) Despite all of this excitement, I would like to share 10 things I have enjoyed about Phnom Penh
1. I love it every time I get home from work alive!! Dodging the traffic on Frank Jr. has been the closest thing I’ve found to mountain biking… yesterday I did a swift 90 degree turn with one hand!
2. I love that the people can’t help grinning a pearler when you smile at them… even if they look grumpy!
3. I love the central market, the Russian market, the orrsey market, the Olympic market, the Toul Kourk Market….
4. I love that I can buy mangos and watermelons on the way home from work
5. I love that you all dance around a table (anti-clockwise) at parties… not just any table, a table with either fruit or flowers on it. Llast night is was a table with a pyramid of apples.
6. I love it how your philosophy on life is the same as the way you drive; live for the moment!
7. I love that I can’t stay grumpy at you even when you do the craziest, most out of this world things; like screwing in posts with IRM and making five unit acrylic bridges or trying to make excuses for being late… there is always a good reason!
8. I love that everything is changing and that the youth are so confident they will be different from those in power today.
9. I love it how everything ‘weird’ that I do is acceptable because I’m a foreigner!
10. I love that I’ll be back soon….
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| Some of my favourites (awwww... who am I kidding, they're all my favourites!) From left to right Lynda:Nurse and leader of the slum children project, Phally: Dental assistant and leader of the prison dental service, Yours truly, Sokhan: Doctor and leader of the Medical team. |
Turts, only just discovered this! I wills stalk you from now on. Don't worry I wont tell them that most of the 'weird stuff'you do is all you. And is part of your charm! Looks like your living your dream, totally stoked and proud of you mate!
ReplyDeleteThanks mate! Always glad to entertain...
DeletePlanning on doing a bit of a whirl-wind through palmy before I go back to dunners so hopefully catch ya soon!