Day 3
Another day of school lmao starting to feel the routine now. We swapped Khmer language teachers though and this one was a bit more dry but das ok, he was still more engaging than all the uni lecturers put together. Apparently teachers in Cambodia are held to a very high regard and I can kinda see why if all teachers are this good.
We learnt more food names and how to address the people in our homestay properly.
During lunch break we went to check out a bicycle shop cus Stephen wanted to buy a secondhand bike, then went to convenience store and we all bought snacks them back to uni.
Had a two hour lecture on electrical safety, ventilators and oxygen concentrators how fun! ! ! ! The guy told us if we wanted to test if the ventilator worked, we should just put our mouths over it and inhale then the supervisor in the back was like
Cambodia has one of the highest rates of tuberculosis in the world l m a o really dont wanna be putting this shit in our mouths.
The function of oxygen concentrators are so simple tho?? they literally suck through air which like passes through zeolite filters and then the nitrogen is filtered from the air leaving practically just the oxygen. ISSA COOOL!!
Then moved onto soldering resistors onto a perf board and soldering a wire on to connect them which actually was not too hard o_o. Desoldering was the tricking part omfg. We did it the copper braid method and ffs was so frustrating.
look at Stephen in the background doing a big boi bicep curl XD || look at Yiyi in the foreground doing some ankle touches || look at LG viv tran on the side doing some sky high leg raises.
After we all died Stephen showed us how to punch and kick the bag!!
Tuktuk'd to a shopping place near our homestay called TK Palace and took a scenic route this time for some reason?? but we passes these like big government buildings idk it was nice though.
We kinda left the one Chinese girl in our homestay to fend for herself but felt very bad afterwards because she didn't know how to get home so lmaoooooooo won't be doing that again.
Day 4
Fuark today was so long
We had a long language class in the morning and everyone was so restless like Yiyi was continuously annoying Viv Tran next to me and I was struggling to concentrate on the giganormous list of verbs and nouns the teacher was trying to drill into us and Stephen was like freezing from the aircon idk
During lunch we went to buy Stephen's bike and the shop people kept saying he looked Japanese and pointed at the picture of Amy in Stephen's wallet then pointed at Viv Tran and said, "honey honey?" and Stephen was like nonono
Sat through long af lecture about electronics basics, suction pumps and theatre lights today. was so riveting. did a stupid lab measuring resistances, voltages and currents fml.
Then when we were finalyl done we went to Aeon Mall and ate burger king then bowled. Was feeling so self-conscious but it ok i didn't do too bad hehehe i came third after Alcuin and Yiyi. I dunno what to do with my hands or my body sometimes (all the time)
biggest struggle finding a tuktuk that would take us all the way back home but then we found one and he spoke pretty fluent english and I forgot for a sec so he stopped at a convenience store randomly and I said out loud "going for a shopping trip are we?" and he said "I'm very thirsty" and I felt so bad.
Anyway, had nice dinner with homestay fam. We gave them some vegemite to try and they didn't mind it!! They also tried tim tams and they said they were really yummy hahaha.
Then back in our room talking about mental health and other random things and Viv and Tahnee said they really couldn't relate to people with anxiety and depression / wanting to kill themselves andi was just sitting htere like lmaooooooooo i mean its still not that bad but i feel like sometimes it is getting there
HAHHAHAHA on the bright side
Day 5
went to kampong something to fix some machines or whatnot idk im super tired and super drunk
the bus ride there was hella long and i was sitting with my second month partner Amy!! Fell asleep then bam we were there. Was a little bit confronting because their hospitals are not hospitals.... people hold their IV drip bags above their own heads when they have to pee.
It was kinda like many diff buildings not connected??????? but yeah we worked on a few patient monitors to try get them to work. We got one fully functional by just swapping the parts out to make a frankenstein monitor but it was all good in the hood. It was so good in the hood that the doctor told us that he wanted to use it in surgery right away so we had to speed clean it then like chuck it into the OR??? Cambodia is the most DIY place ever omfg. also holy fuck IT WAS SOOOOOOOOO HOT we were all dying
We had lunch at this random place near our hospital but it was super yum and had a western toilet with a toilet paper roll next ti it!!!!!!
Then we went back to the hospital to pretend to fix mroe things and look at other people fix things then we went back to the uni...
Then yeet went to Cousin's Burger which was this super french western burger place and had the best mothafuckin food we've had since we arrived in Cambodai omfggggggg THE FRENCH COOK WAS SO NCIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE and the food was so nice asdkfja;sdklfj;alksjdfsj;fakjs cider was questionable but das ok he gave us extra garlic aioli to try and can i= just saY YUM
Day 6
Visited the Tuol Sleng Prison and Killing Fields today to learn some more about Cambodian history.
Tuol Sleng was first and it was basically a prison and torture camp in the middle of the capital city of Cambodia O_O. We got a little like audio guide thing to listen to as we were walking through the prison. Thought it was a lil bit confronting but not as bad as I thought it was going to be.
Then we had lunch at a random restaurant nearby and tuktuk'd to the killing fields. Almost fell asleep on my coordinator so many times.
The Killing Fields were were the prisoners from Tuol Sleng were taken to be executed in these big pits. Since they wanted to save time + money, they just knelt like a row of prisoners on the edge of a pit then whacked them with a hammer or smth and let them die in the pit. Babies were slammed against trees to kill them omfg
the tower here was filled to the brim with the skulls and bones of victims
What an exhausting day!! We are going to sleep super early today
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