🏟️ 2023 ASEAN Games Cause An Early School Break 🏅 & I Go Inside The Water Tank 🛢️
Algae is building up inside the water tank, Khmer New Year is coming, and Cambodia is hosting the 2023 ASEAN Games, which has led to an early school break.
River Rocks Are Free 🪨
Our fence is mostly finished, but because the highway side of the fence is done and it also the first thing potential visitors will notice, we've begun landscaping and beautifying the small patch of land between the highway and the fence. First was a couple of banana trees, and now I've been hauling small rocks up from the river to create a small motorbike and pedestrian entry path. It's not beautiful yet, but it soon will be.
🏟️ The ASEAN Games Altered The School Year 🧑🏫
Today marked the last day of school for Monkey-B, and while waiting for her to jump in the tuk-tuk, the principal and a few teachers began preparing an information smörgåsbord, eventually covering the entire board in text. The short short story is that studies stop today, the 6th of April, and resume on the 19th of May.
The sugarcane juicer wrapped up her last big day of sales before the 5-week holiday while the students were busy picking up the trash in and around the school for a good ole' open pit plastic burnoff dioxin party. If you look carefully at the above poorly executed photo, you can see Monkey-B in the shade waiting for her freshly pressed juice and our majestic Piaggio Ape in the distance.
Monkey-B stopped by the tuk-tuk to say hi and then quickly disappeared, not wanting to miss out any of the last day's action. This time of the year isn't normally a school holiday, but because Cambodia is hosting the ASEAN games, this was the reason given the impromptu 5-week stoppage.
Hustle The Fried Snacks 🍢
I noticed a lady with a few chairs and an umbrella hustling something pierced on a stick, coated in panko bread crumbs and fried. She only had an umbrella and a few sauces, but otherwise no gear. She's normally in the fried food biz, but because she lives nearby and this was a super duper blowout day at school, she was able to earn a few bucks for the upcoming Khmer New Year.
One of the last things the kids did was the flag lowering ceremony, which I assume will be raised when studies resume in May. When I saw Monkey-B wandering back to the tuk-tuk with glazed eyes, I knew she wouldn't last 5 minutes in the tuk-tuk. Surely enough she jumped in and quickly shed her school clothes.
By the time I arrived at the shipping agent to collect our vegan instant noodles and vegan pâté, Monkey-B was 100% tuckered out, and with a strange style choice for the ride home. I think she was prepreparing for the dusty portion of the road 30 minutes away where she knew she'd be sound asleep. She was right, good trip planning led to dust-free hair and a happy arrival back at home.
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Most of the schools are now going on holiday, now, I believe every parents will not be happy because they will have their children around
Here in Cambodia the Khmer New Year is a happy time, and most people living outside their hometown return to the place where their parents live and spend quality family time together. There are also many traditional games that are played, and in most homes a large amount of alcohol is consumed.
Wao, this is somewhat an amazing one that one won't want to miss by any chance.. keep having fun and enjoying
Yay! 🤗
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Wow! Glad to know that it is the last day of school year for Monkey-B. So it is really summer now there in Cambodia. Before, the first week of April is supposedly our end of school year but since Philippines adapted the K-12 Basic Education Program, our classes usually ends at June or July. Best regards to the happy family like yours. More beautiful moments together my dear friend and take care!
Usually there wouldn't be a long break now, just a short one for New Year, but the government is doing a 5-week break nationwide to allow and encourage people to attend the ASEAN games Cambodia is hosting. I heard admission is free for foreigners and Khmers, so perhaps we'll try and attend some events if we find ourselves in a big city.
Dust-free hair and a comfy, noise cancelling head blanket ;>)
Big hug!
She's basically a little female Cambodian MacGyver, and all too used to traveling dusty roads in a tuk-tuk.
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ooof. I bet the inside of that tank was not a nice place to be!
Yes and no, obviously the inherent dangers aren't cool when you're so far from halfway decent emergency medical care. On the other there was a nice amount of cold water I was splashing around to wash the interior, so I kind of got a free late morning shower. When I cleaned it with the hose during the final step I hosed myself down as well, almost felt like a kid again 😉😂.
oh well that is good. I thought it would have just been a mold and scum nightmare in there.