Christmas in January?

 I am only joking. Christmas was last week and I wrote the following  message last week but forgot to send, and so now it will be sent, only aged, like fine cheese.

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My companion has two completely different birthdays! Very cool😁

English Words of the week from elder thuen because he askes me about good words all the time. 

-Saturated

-Exaggerated

-Exaccerbated

I was trying to explain saturated and elder thuen says (aproximatly) "dang thats hard because saturated sounds like exaggerated and exaccerbated."

He likes to read the dictionary and is super smart.

So smart in fact, that his principle in middle school bumped him up 2 grades, but to do that, the principle just went in and changed his official birth certificate date to 2 years before he was actually born. So officially he was actually born right around the time his parents first met eachother. But unofficially he was born 27 months later, hence the 2 birthdays.

But I guess age isnt a biggie in a place where most of the reasons we emphasise age in the USA arent emphasised so strictly

Family history

Met my close-ish cousin whomst has the name benjamin platt lighton. He's from the platt side of the family and is the great grandson of george alma platt(my great grandpa). I did some geneology and learned that elder lighton is named after Benjamin Platt (the grandpa of george a platt). Benjamin Platt is cool because he was the one who emigrated to america from england in 1856. He then had 12 kids and named his twins Joseph and Josephus. What a legend.

Elder Lighton lives in my house now so its been great to get to know him.

Speaking of elder lighton, I gave him and all 5 other elders in my house a haircut 😈 The barber shop is back in buisness baby. As always there are some issues, and this week, it was the fact that the wattage in cambodia is 220w, which to much for my poor clippers that are used to good ol' 110w outlets. Luckily we have a freezer so I can just cool down the clippers when they overheat, and during the break we play chess. It is kind of finicky though because sometimes the clippers pretend to actually die and then panic ensues, because the haircut isnt even close to finished. But just like my limp-limbed drop-dead ខូច-cranium exhausted physical body after a good nights rest, the clippers always clutch up, and provide me with additional use. 

C's gets degrees

I learned in khmer secondary education, A is nearly perfect. B stops at 95 and C goes until 90. They also have an E grade. And F still means fail

Christmas season !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Christmas Music makes me happy, and combined with a tasty christmas dinner consisting of animal flesh, vegetables, and rice; it ended up being the perfect evening with my roomates.

Today is P day and I went to a genocide museum called Toul Sleng. It was a school that they turned into an interrogation center. As many as 20,000 people went through the halls, and there are exactly 12 survivors. Very grim, and there is a dark dark feeling inside, but I learned so much about the Khmer people through an audio tour. 

Pictures 

-Halls of toul sleng

-Christmas dinner (excluding rice)

-Me and Elder Lighton. Elder thuen and Sam Piseth