Category: Daily Life in Cambodia

The revival is starting

As we were coming back from the Saturday evening mass tonight, we commented how the crowds are starting to reappear on the waterfront. For more than a year, the area along the river–the night time tourist center of Phnom Penh—was almost deserted because of Covid-19. Now people are out eating and enjoying themselves. This woman has her popcorn stand ready to go.

Multi-tasking

First there was the pharmacy. Then they added the coffee stand. And then, what the heck, let’s sell all kinds of drinks! And unless someone sleeps out in front every night, they set all this up in the morning and put it back in the shop every evening.

Well, we got the sink….

Cambodia has a lot of major problems: corruption, impunity, deforestation, trafficking, drugs, poor education, poverty, etc. And then there are the nuisances. When we moved our Maryknoll office to this building, we asked the landlord to put in a real sink in the kitchen. He did but the bottom of the sink is at knee level. It’s perfect for the Cambodian woman who cooks a few meals a week, though.