Hey...
So after the rain finished... me and a friend ventured back to the beach for a nibble and guess who walked by... DAVE AND JAZZ. It hadn't seen my Canadian friends in 2 weeks and I find them strolling past me on the beach. We had a good visit. As it turns out, the English Aussia guy had already met Jazz and Dave a couple of days before at a cooking course. It is a small world. Anyhow... the swedish girls I met on the bus to Sihanoukville joined us on the beach too and convinced me and the english Aussia guy to go with them to bambo island. It was awesome
I was stuck on a desert island for 2.5 days, no interent no electricity, no cambodia people selling me things, just sand, ocean, 10 bungaloos, one restuarant and a hand full of cool swedish people. I officially have started working on my tan. My butt is like the Canadian flag at the momnet... red and white. :)
The island was taken over by swedish people, sort of... they were seven sweds, me, and israeli chick and a couple other too. We chilled, suntanned, read, played lots of backgammon, lots of cards, some drinking games...I even made the journey to the otherside of the island to see a different beach. It was a long 10min walk through the forest, very difficult.
Ok there was a down side to the island... a couple people got very sick, maybe food poisoning. I didn't but I didn't eat any meat.
I was only planning on saying one day on the island... but when the boat came... i didn't want to leave...
It was hard leaving yesterday.. but I do actually want to see an bit of the real cambodia... so me and Tuva and Lisa (sweds girls) headed to Kampot... its a little cambodia town on a little river with little for tourist but it does have shops, and cute buildings and very few tourist. It is a change... I am not sure if it is a good or bad one yet.
Tomorrow I am thinking i am going to stick with the swedish girls and go to Phnom Penn. They are going to meet one of their sis, a swed and some local ppls. Plus there is a cool water park and the very sad killing fields.
After that.... I am going to Vietnam.
I know there is a lot of cambodia I didn't see but there just isn't enough time for everything.
Missing everyone... December starts tomorrow. Christmas is coming and i am going to miss it.
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Hey Alisha!
Hopefully you haven't been having too much to forget about your ole pals back at Health Sci. I have been reading your blog and let me tell you, I am so jealous and excited for you at the same time - sounds like you are continuously enjoying yourself :). Good for you!!
And if you remember, I'm doing some adventuring of my own. Adam and I are going to Europe for a little Eurotrip for 12 days and then on Jan. 10 I'm going to start my exchange studies in Sweden at Lund University!!! I'm so excited and I can't wait. Hopefully my blog is as cool as yours :).
So I read you are meeting a lot of Swedes - bet they are really cool. Elaborate! I'll be around Swedes for 5 months, :) good times.
Well I'll ttysoon, enjoy yourself, be safe and dont be too sad about missing Christmas!
Best of luck
Giselle
PS Dont forget to check out my blog eveyr once in a while - I wont have anything too exiting in there until January though
Well sis finally had a chance to check back in on ya glad to hear your still alive. When you feel sad about missing christmas just remeber the -34 degree weather we can get in decemeber. Broke a 110 year record for coldness. We'll all have a toast to you at xmas and you do the same for us over there. Love you lots.
James
K, well finished reading more and now I have more comments. Small world hells ya. I love coincendences like that. I met a guy in scotland who got thrown out of the bar 5 mins later. I saw him again on the boat I stayed on in amersterdam 2 months later. I love that stuff.
Well friends of grandma were pretty shocked by how brave you are for heading out to SE asia often by yourself. I agree with the brave part wicked to be off on your own think of how many people you've met. I might just go back through and make an ethnic head count of how many aussies,swedes etc you've encountered. Good luck keep it up.
ps. grats on not paying the bribe.
horray a new post i love it!
be thankful you're missing a week to start/complete three term papers all over 10 pages long involving research and about a dozen articles then finals a week after!
i would much rather be in your shoes...or sandles or socks.. whatever it is you are wearing ;)
You needed some relaxation! Travelling can be very tiring, right! You are missing snow over here and Alberta, lots of it!
Take care,
Mom
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