Current objective- survive

 Ok it has been a week and a few days in the country so now so i already wanna hide in a corner, but alas i am a "person spread religion", and so i must do so. My companion/trainer (Elder caldwell) is like me but cooler so yeah maybe someday I can be like him. He is very good at khmer, so we've just been having an adventure together. Except i barely know what anyones saying so its like he's doing good work and im a tourist😁.

Under his guidance ive made alot of progress, and now i can kind of just listen when he says something and imagine what he is talking about. Native speakers, not so ez for me. 

This country is like suana. But the worst part of the sauna is after all, getting out and being all sweaty and relativley cold. Here in cambodia, I can just be sweaty and hot all the time and its no problemo. Cold showers are fun, when in other places i would never even consider them. 

Frighteningly cool Lightning

it seems to rain every day and alot of the time that includes lightning  its very bright and the colors are sweet. Purple is the best i think. One time a huge bolt struck a pole down the street, and it was so bright and so loud. Like a flashbang, and now that i think about it lightning and thunder is probably exactly what the grenade is trying to imitate. But yeah it lit up the whole sky, super cool. 

Bathroom is cool. Direct translation is "room water" and its got all the essentials, and they all get wet, becasue the shower is close to all of it and theres no dividers of the space. Very cool very efficient. Also i am liking the idea of the "toilet paper of cambodia" attached to the toilet being a sqirt gun that functions like a squirter on the sink of alot of american kitchens. It seems like it works quite well, but i still havent had many opportunities to use it. My concern for my bowel heath increaces gradually day by day, but maybe the food here can just be converted 100% into raw missionary energy with no need for waste products 🤷‍♂️ idk.

Naked baby with money.

Ok this is epic i was with elder thuen on an exchange and he was talking and i see a naked baby that looks like it just barely figured out how to walk walking down the road and it has something in its mouth. Its like 150 feet away and watch it just sucking on a 500$ bill. So I am appaled as it comes closer and closer just sucking away with not a care in the world. Long journey told short, he walked passed me to a shop, bought a cake treat (i didnt see the transaction myself but i can only assume we have a budding buisness man), and walked back (still no clothes)

Be like baby, forsake your worldy possesions. 

Elder tuen

hes a khmer elder, and his dream is to get a master degree in hospitality and manage a hotel. He knows khmer spanish, english (very good i think he likes to read the dictionary for fun, and he sometimes asked me about words i can only guess the connotation of like pejorative, indolent, tawdry, and hawker )

Survival Life-hack-tips from my benevolent roomates. (They work)

Trafic can be crazy sometimes, but here if you just raise up your hand, its like the star power up in mario kart. For those that dont know about this wonderful power, it basically means you have right of way.

Coke kills disease. 

They told me if i ever eat anything sus, just drink a coke and it will solve the problem. Ive seen my comp drink 3 coke in one day.

Also my helmet is broken already, but thats ok because ive only crashed twice so far. Both times becasue i was trying an advanced manuver that elder caldwell said is theoretically possible. when coming to a stop next to a curb, you slam on the front breaks and try to lift up your back end to fall on the curb and then jump your front end on the curb also. I always fail at the part where i slam my break, because the bike just does a wimpy front flip. I will train more.