Amoeba-tastic

8-26-08

Well, I finally got sick, and it was sick enough that the Medical Officer decided to bring me down to Phnom Penh for a few days. I’ll spare you the details, but let’s just say I have become intimately familiar with the squat toilet over the last week. They think I have amoebas. I’ll be here at least until Wednesday, which is fine because there are some really great restaurants here, and the Peace Corps is happy to give me money to spend. So I’m doing pretty well.

I haven’t been writing very much this last week because of the illness. I’ve also been really terrible about taking pictures; I think I’ve snapped about 20 in the whole time I’ve been here. Which is fine because there’s really no way that I have to get them online at a reasonable speed. Chances are any pictures will have to wait until after I get to my permanent site.

Well, that’s that. I’m going to go take a walk around the Independence Monument and then go watch some CNN at the Peace Corps Headquarters.