Morning in a wet market
Category: Daily Life in Cambodia
Going for a ride….
Atrocity
What’s Cambodia Like #4?
It seems almost every day, literally, there is another story of some government official or military officer or village chief arrested for fraud, selling government land, appropriating land of indigenous peoples, cutting protected forests–you name it.
What’s Cambodia Like #3?
Who dat?
A close family….
What’s Cambodia Like?
Kitchen Furniture
This is a picture of a corner of our kitchen at the Maryknoll office. It’s rather basic. Notice the wooden stool at the bottom. The lady who cooks twice a week sits on that while cutting and slicing all the vegetables and meats on the floor. There is a counter she could stand at but Cambodian women normally sit on the floor–or a stool–while working in the kitchen.
It’s the way we do it….
Cambodia has been too much focused on survival for the last half century, and discipline, order, and the rule of law sidelined. That is seen in the increasingly problematic traffic where there is no order. If you can do it, you have right of way.
