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Finding home

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  I am become far too comfortable here. Despite me not speaking the language, or understanding much about the culture, I feel really at home. Walking the streets of Phnom Penh and Siem Reap at night by myself has been a nightly activity for me. I enjoy the liveliness of the people and the feeling of warms and humidity that covers me. I haven’t felt uncomfortable at all and part of that is not standing out from the other Cambodians around me.   I kind of feel like I melt into the population and can be just another face in the crowd. Kind of a darker more asiany Where’s Waldo, except no one is looking for me. Anyway, like I said I’m super at home here. I don’t feel like I’m visiting, I feel like I lives here.   I know that I’m not actually experience what the average Cambodian goes through, I don’t have to earn money or work, everything I do is by choice, and usually I just roam around, and no one needs me to rush home.   I guess that’s not totally true, I am h...
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Back in Phnom Penh

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I have returned to Phnom Penh. Five plus hours from Siem Reap to the capitol city in a 15-seat van. Regardless of what happens, this trip should fun I love Phnom Penh it is a great city, very modern in so many ways that make life easier but also modern in ways that are troubling. All the amenities of a modern urban world from cell phone shops and casket stores to large malls and street food vendors. The city also exhibits the stark divide between; those who have access to materials, power, and prestige, those who serve the powerful, those who serve the servers of the powerful and those who, commonly, through no fault of their own, live on the periphery scratching out a living from what ever is left behind. These levels are part of all urban societies. Being here, I am faced with the fact that I am part of the upper level at least in how I am able to move through this world. As an outsider I am able to go just about anywhere and do just about anything as long as I’m willing to pay...
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