👶 Hanging With Nutsara 🦗 & Other Life Outtakes 🎬
Baby Nutsara, the neighbors' daughter, is quite fond of my family and I, and on most days she comes to visit us, but on this day I visited her.
The Giant Insects Return 🦗
The rainy season has returned here in the Cardamom Mountains of southwestern Cambodia, and with the return of the rains come the return of oversized insects. It usually takes a handful of storms before the forest comes back to life with the sounds of cicadas, crickets and frogs, and as I write this post a cicada is constantly hitting my computer monitor and occasionally me in the face. There's no electricity and I'm writing this post via battery power, and that makes my screen the brightest and only light around.
No Respect For Nature 🤦♂️
My sister-in-law recently came to visit us, and the only time we really spent together was a short road trip to Thmor Da, the town 30km down the mountain and the home of nearest public school where my daughters study. She stayed for two nights, but other than a couple brief morning talks she spent the days with our neighbors because they have a karaoke machine and a crowd for her to work. She really needs a crowd to be able to socialize, but I don't like being around drunkenness combined with karaoke so loud that you can't even have a conversation, so I stayed home with our daughters and did various househusbanding things like cooking and keeping the kiddos productive.
On our trip back from town we made a pee/scenic overlook stop. Any place that even has a touch of beauty in Cambodia and is easily accessible is always full of trash, and a wildlife sanctuary within a national park is no exception to the rule. It's such a simple thing to keep your trash with you until you get to town, but here trash must be disposed of immediately and carelessly, and I will never understand this part of the culture because the overwhelming majority of people here know this is inappropriate, destructive, and lazy, but still choose to get rid of trash on the roadside rather than keep it until a trash bin is available.
Nutsara, Fist Bump Champion 👊
I'll finish this post with my other pic of the day of Nutsara. Although I don't have any pics of it, I taught her how to fist bump a couple of months ago, and now every time we meet that is how we greet each other. After we fist bump I always pully my hand away and make an explosion sound and gesture, and this always triggers laughter from this cute kiddo. Perhaps for my next post I'll try to capture this in GIF form, the Nutsara fist bump 👊💥.
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The trash scene reminds me of what I did a couple of years ago, where I drove 200km back to the place and was unable to redeem myself. One of the things that keeps haunting me over and over again and even appears in my dream, when I was swimming(no I can't swim) that piece of plastic bag I have thrown came stuck on my face and I couldn't pull it off and choke to death and usually woke up with me holding my blanket against my own face 🙄
Haha, the universe denied you a chance to correct your karma. I am still haunted by choices of the past, but none of them involving a plastic bag 😉😆.
I am teaching in a mountain part of our town, and it is so sad that I also witnessed some irresponsible people who visited the place, and that is being so disrespectful to nature. So I always make sure that I always teach my students in a remote area to be responsible for taking-care of nature and to be disciplined with their trash.
It is good to instill this care in the young generation. I try and teach the kids in our village to put their trash in their pockets until they get home or to a trashcan, but my words are forgotten within 5 minutes. It's hard change old habits I guess.
A gif with Nutsara, why not.
Trash is also a problem here. The use of plastic here is one of the main concern. Have to self assess if I am part of the problem or part of the solution. A clean up drive, thats what I think could help. Because look at that mountains, it looks beautiful, but..
I hope to eventually do something like this, but I think to get the village to start caring, they will have to see us earning a good income from eco-tourism first. I hope once we get our project going we will be successful, this will certainly help to get everyone onboard when it comes to keeping the place clean for ecotourism.
I can't understand it myself. It's so simple to keep the trash in your car or in a bag you carry with you. Don't know if Cambodia has fines for littering. I'm not sure if there's a fine for it in Suriname, but same attitude is shown by some of the population, which is unfortunate.
Yes, I noticed this culture a bit in Suriname, but not nearly as bad as it is here in Cambodia. I think the fines are the biggest deterrent in the USA, but nowadays most people have a basic environmental respect like not littering.
Yeah, I've seen a mind shift in the general public in "Western" countries, but it still isn't enough when the big players aren't contributing, but that's another discussion 😂. !LOL
I think that it's not as prevalent in Suriname as it is in Cambodia because of The difference in the population number, but I might be wrong.
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such a little cutie.
I know what you mean about garbage being dumped. we have that same issue where I live. Almost any piece of nature that isn't controlled like a National Park has litter all over it.
Sad to say this is a national park, even a wildlife sanctuary within the park, but there is no government ministry or agency tasked with caring about the place, so it's understandable why NGOs like Wildlife Alliance are taking up the responsibility.
Oh so the NGO's get to do the work of the government. That happens here with many organizations as well.
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So sad that the place is full of trash. The wild life and Nature were having bad effects if it keep throwing the garbage to the place.
😔😔
This place has so much potential, but it's sad to see most of the locals and tourists have no respect for this wildlife sanctuary.
Very sad reality my friend.😔
So it is here. We have many natural resources, but we do not take care of them.
How cute Nutsara!
I hope there is still some nature left for when Nutsara is an adult.
God willing 🙏
Yay! 🤗
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