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Still in Cambodia.
I'm at a hotel...with my laptop. The battery is dying because well most of what I've been doing out here is work for UNHCR...
My house in Cambodia...I haven't really talked about it since forever ago, when it was still being built. There were problems then about land mines and whatnot. And now...someone was tresspassing onto my property, and found one that the Cambodian & UN officials hadn't found. Only, he found it the hard way. He's still alive, luckily, but badly burned. There were minor damages to the house. I'm not gonna press any charges or anything...the Cambodian system is MUCH MUCH MUCH worse than ours. That guy would probably end up being killed for walking onto my property, and I don't want that. I lied and told them it was somebody that I asked to check out my house every now and then. Saved his life.
Maddox is happy to be here though. He keeps saying certain things at home, and I dont know exactly what he's trying to say...so I'll ask someone here if it means anything in Khmer (...cambodian...). I just can't stop thinking: "what if it wasn't that guy who found it...what if Maddox or I, or someone I love who had found it."
So, people are gonna help me fix it while we're here. So who knows how long I'll be here.
Man...well, my Maddox and I are gonna make the best of this trip. We're going to different tourist-y type things...there aren't MANY...but we're going all over to find some. Today we're going to the market, closer to the house...because that place is full of just...STUFF. Crafts, fruits, food, it's a beautiful place. I'm trying to get his mind off of seeing the house, like - broken, and all that's happened.
I'm gonna find a place to charge this battery, and leave it to charge the rest of the day...so hopefully I'll be able to write more later.
I'm at a hotel...with my laptop. The battery is dying because well most of what I've been doing out here is work for UNHCR...
My house in Cambodia...I haven't really talked about it since forever ago, when it was still being built. There were problems then about land mines and whatnot. And now...someone was tresspassing onto my property, and found one that the Cambodian & UN officials hadn't found. Only, he found it the hard way. He's still alive, luckily, but badly burned. There were minor damages to the house. I'm not gonna press any charges or anything...the Cambodian system is MUCH MUCH MUCH worse than ours. That guy would probably end up being killed for walking onto my property, and I don't want that. I lied and told them it was somebody that I asked to check out my house every now and then. Saved his life.
Maddox is happy to be here though. He keeps saying certain things at home, and I dont know exactly what he's trying to say...so I'll ask someone here if it means anything in Khmer (...cambodian...). I just can't stop thinking: "what if it wasn't that guy who found it...what if Maddox or I, or someone I love who had found it."
So, people are gonna help me fix it while we're here. So who knows how long I'll be here.
Man...well, my Maddox and I are gonna make the best of this trip. We're going to different tourist-y type things...there aren't MANY...but we're going all over to find some. Today we're going to the market, closer to the house...because that place is full of just...STUFF. Crafts, fruits, food, it's a beautiful place. I'm trying to get his mind off of seeing the house, like - broken, and all that's happened.
I'm gonna find a place to charge this battery, and leave it to charge the rest of the day...so hopefully I'll be able to write more later.