Some More of Daily Life

This is my awesome bike.  More importantly, this is a picture of me, waiting alone at my school for students who didn't show up.  While most of my classes possess a few eager students, the date of this particular English Club coincided with the height of rice planting season.  When I went home and told my host mom that no one came to class, she said "Of course, they didn't!  They're out planting rice!"

I live right along a national highway in Cambodia.  One day, the government decided to start repairing the road, which I was really excited about...until it looked like this for a week.  Loose gravel+motorcycles and bikes=not a great combination.  They finally got it paved while I was in Thailand, but returned today to plant down another pile of gravel.  I have no idea what is going on with this construction process.  

This is the result of loose gravel and traffic.  All the dust from the road construction settles nicely in my house, so everything is covered in a lovely shade of grey.  While inconvenient, it does make last minute note taking rather simple.  

This is something I've been trying to capture for a while, so I hope you can see it clearly.  Yes, that is a motorcycle with about 20 live chickens strapped to it.  Say what you want, but at least the poultry is fresh.  

This is a delicious snack my host mom made for me one day.  It's a tiny pumpkin that is broiled and filled with some sort of sweet filling.  It might not look like much, but it kind of reminds me of a baked apple.  It's probably my favorite sweet in Cambodia. 

Oh you know, just taking a selfie with a cow.   

This is the trap door that goes down to the bathroom from the upstairs.  There's a ladder under this that I have definitely fallen down once or twice, but climbing down this makes life exciting.  I'm also a very fortunate PCV, in the sense that I can access my bathroom at night and don't have to pee in a bucket or stumble my way to an outhouse in the dark.