I Should be So Happy, Happy Happy Happy
Trip Start
May 17, 2009
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Trip End
Dec 21, 2009
Where I stayed
CWF Volunteer House
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Saturday, July 4, 2009
DISASTERS TO DATE
Attempted bag snatch while travelling on the back of a moto taxi.
Volunteer struck down with a near-death experience of heat exhaustion
Close call for volunteer who was threatened by a rubbish collector with a big spike at 8.30am
Fear and loathing between 2 volunteers resulting in a hasty exit from the house
Gunfire outside the restaurant where 2 volunteers were eating - can you believe that while they were hiding in the back rooms, the staff set up a table to serve them their noodles??
Cowboys with guns blasting as they rode past a couple of volunteers on their motorcycles
Broken toe from falling down the stairs (I must state emphatically that alcohol was not involved... and no, it wasn't me)
Falling down a manhole to chest-height
Bicycle crash and worse still, a coconut dropped onto shoulder of a volunteer- we had just been discussing the number of deaths by coconut drop. Freaky!
House phone and guitar mysteriously disappearing.
One volunteer left his parked motorcycle seconds before it was hit by a car.
2 motorcycle taxi accidents in one week for one volunteer.
One volunteer has gone AWOL for the last 5 days - completely cut off all communication with the school . He is apparently a victim of black magic from an old girlfriend and will surely have some amazing story of life and death decisions if he ever resurfaces. Meanwhile, he is clubbing and indulging himself it seems.
And of course the group dynamics of the 9 house members themselves are rather interesting and at times volatile.
What do you do when bad luck seems to be your constant companion?
Organise a monk to come and bless the house and everyone in it, of course.
