Day - 53 counting down - Puppetry, Khmer and a shopping mall

My penultimate day on The Khmer Project and I'm really going to miss it! It had not dawned on me until this evening, tomorrow is my last day on the project, then the others depart for their homestay. In total cliche, it is of course just as I start to feel comfortable in Phnom Penh and that I know the Khmer enough to at least understand their motivations, if not actually anticipate them. And I'm loving it too! It helps that it is a cool week of course but I think I may have finally acclimatised. Had several nights with the sheet on for warmth recently!

I love tuk-tuk rides through the dusty traffic, with the breeze in your face.

Btway, best wishes from the volunteers here on the birth of the Prince of Cambridge!

Went to Sorya Shopping Mall next to Central Market. This is one of only two or three shopping malls in Phnom Penh and is the biggest and most well known. When it first opened people travelled to the city specially to ride on the escalators.  We went up to the top to take photos which was worth it as the rain clouds were just coming in and turning everything silver. There is a roller skating rink, a gaming centre and a 'cafe and pub' called "apocalypse" at the top too.

Large motorcycles on Riverside tonight, lit up blue and green from underneath, looked like spaceships. Promoting a club.