First of all, the news about the luggage is entirely good; it all arrived last night with "rush" labels attached to it. We can now wear different things and all the gifts we brought are here too!
The motorbike maintenance training workshop was our first stop today; Eric was re-living his youth as he watched the boys strip and rebuild motorbike engines over and over again. They could do it in their sleep! Another boy was working on a more complicated engine while yet another was rebuilding a wheel.
The roads are something to experience; there were several points today when we thought we were going to have to get out and push, but Tia is a master driver! There are potholes and there is mud and sometimes both together!
We also taught the children of Kilo 4 village School on the Mat how to play duck, duck, goose (or a version of it!) and so we have images of Karen, Yvonne and Martin being chased round the circle of 50 children in a forest clearing - and losing! We must practice more - the children caught on quickly and caught us easily.
Today was also an agricultural day. We met three children who look after their father's land, growing marrows (they call it cucumber), morning glory, mushrooms, many aubergines, monstrous green beans, mighty pumpkins and a mystery green stuff that we can't identify. There were also some pigs, being smoked - well the smoke to keep the mosquitoes away, not to kill the pigs.
Again we have been well-looked after and well-fed; a tour of Poipet showed us the casinos and the local market. It has been very hot and there has been no rain.
