Last weekend I went to the beach! I'm slightly jealous of everyone in the states complaining about how cold it is, because honestly I think my body has physically forgotten what it feels like to be cold. IT'S SO HOT HERE. I'm always drenched in sweat, which definitely helps my professionalism when I arrive at work after my 30 minute bike ride with sweat dripping off my head. The one good thing about this perpetually miserable temperature, is that a long weekend at Sihanoukville beach is always an option
It took a 4 hour impossibly cramped van ride to get to Sihanoukville, where we stayed in a bungalow complete with mosquito nets and ice cold showers. Okay okay I said I forgot what it was like to be cold... I think this shower put my body into hypothermic shock.
The weekend was spent lounging on beach chairs, reading and getting my nails painted, as women selling tropical fruit from their head patrolled the beach, preying on my weakness for mango.
I've been in Cambodia for over 2 months now! I've moved into an apartment with a fellow American teacher, I have a bike, and two English teaching jobs. I'm settling in nicely here, but don't worry...however "smooth" my life goes, I still humiliate myself daily as I get used to life here in Cambodia.
I'm jealous! Winter hitting here in Wyoming and Colorado . . . snow, snow, snow! I'll take your heat....:)
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