Consistency

 Here are some pictures of the sunset this evening.

 Not very much has happened today but I didn't want to skip posting too many times.

This morning the Khmer had a meeting with our new VSO-Cambodia Provincial Officer. Sometimes so much happens in English that they get a bit left behind, so he was helping them make sure that they were clear on things. He's been very helpful this week - he only started on Monday.

While they were doing that, we did some of our subteam work, but we mainly played Mafia - since the office is all one space we had to keep out of the way of the Khmer talk so we sat in one bit (the Employability team section) and played, just the UK members and Evie, our UK TL. Connor actually wasn't there as he wasn't feeling so good this morning. I might do a tour of the office at some point, just so you can see where I spend a lot of my time.

Anyway after lunch we had our first Srae Thmei Youth Group. Only two people turned up, but it was still a good session. The group here is very new, so we think it may be a case of building it up, letting the next cycle do more actual teaching than we can.

Afterwards, we went cycling to the rice fields to chill for a bit, as you see above.

Other than that, this is the only exciting thing that has happened today:

Yes. That is a scorpion. In the wild. In my bathroom. Let's just say it didn't take long to dress and leave after I'd seen it. I think it was about 2-3 inches long...
I showed Channa the picture and she screamed. So it's not just me! Although she did say she would kill it for me.

With that, goodnight! I have a half day tomorrow, so maybe I'll do that office tour to make it more interesting.



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  1. Willbesprog22 February 2020 at 14:38

    Are the scorpions deadly/poisonous? I know the ones we get here just look scary and will apparently just make your tongue go numb for a few hours!

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    1. Moli tirion23 February 2020 at 02:58

      According to Channa, they won't kill you. But based on the other knowledge I have it would hurt a lot. 😬

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