no big deal

Janessa is gone.













She is home in Canada.















I am here in Cambodia.















I will join her soon enough.















I'm heading home in officially less then 2 months. That seems so crazy. How can time go by so quickly??















For those of you who want to know how my last month was I will encourage you to read Janessa's blog. I've said it before but she's better at writing than me and waaaaay funnier.















http://www.leaningintosky.blogspot.com/















There is so much going on right now and although I am happy. Really I am, where it really counts, I sometimes find it hard to show it. Like right now I can tell my post is already depressing, and I really don't want it to.















So here goes with some more positive - maybe even funny - updates...















Kong's nephew has peed on me 3 times now! It seems strange but out here if you can't afford to send your children to school, you probably can't afford diapers. So most baby's don't. Today was #3.















Normally this wouldn't excite me too much for obvious reasons, but I have been told that the baby only pees on those he loves.





























Now, to really get the picture here, this is the baby that used to take one look at me and scream his face off. I am very strange looking to him. My eyes might be the scariest thing about me. That and my white skin. He had never seen anyone like that before me. I think he thought I was a monster.















One day when I was over at the Lee's home I was playing with Dol and the girls tickling them. He was sitting next to me, trying to get away, and he stopped to see I wasn't attcking his aunts and uncle, but that they enjoyed it and seemed to like me. That same day he let me hold him for the first time with out crying, and I even got a few smiles out of him. Now this baby visibly lights up with pleasure and freaks out if I don't hold him.















It makes my heart melt, more than just a little...















For the past 2 months I have been whizzing around Sihanoukville on a motto. It was kind of scary at first because the traffic here is insane compared to home, but I'm an old pro now! On any given day you can catch me cruzin' the coast, driving on the wrong side of the road, weaving in and out of traffic, merging through intersections that have no street lights or stop signs and I have only been in ONE accident!!















Oh yeah...















Mom, dad, I had a little accident....















It wasnsn't my fault though. Allow me to explain..















Janessa and I had just had breakfast with Rachha and Vothanak at my favourite little noodle place and were on our way home. We were approaching an intersection and a motto pulled out infront of me. Normally no big deal. It's all about merging folks. But we both turned the corner and he wanted to turn around just as we had. He was starting to pull out to go (keep in mind this is all happening in the middle of the street, I wasn't on the shoulder or anything) and then stopped suddenly. I had just begun to accelorate after turning but we were all a little too close and I slammed on the break but the motto skid and turned and amazingly enough I somehow managed to bail off my falling motto (which was still going forward, mind you). We never actually hit the guy. And once he saw that his motto was unscathed he just took off.















Now here's the good part.















As you probably know about me, I like to laugh. And I like to laugh loud. Not a good thing in this culture. But when I bailed from the motto and I realized I was ok and everything was fine, I burst out laughing like there was no tomorrow!! So imagine this if you will:















Two young white girls at an intersection get into a bit of an accident. The driver goes flying off the motto while the passanger who is being respectful of the culture is sitting side saddle like a lady does, goes flying backwards, feet right over the head and lands on her back rolling around with her legs in the air!!















(I'm killing myself just writing this!!)















Then, and I'm sure this is a first in the history of Cambodia, these two silly girls stand (and lay) there laughing very loudy and don't stop. Shortly after 2 young Khmer boys drive up, talk to the young girls and the girls just hop on the back of their mottos, no questions asked, and drive away with them. (Rachha and Vothanak)



We had a nice crowd gathered to boot!















Oh Janessa, how I miss thee!!