Random

I say random because it’s not everyday that I set out to go bowling and find myself at the Cambodian border instead.

Yesterday Pi Tot invited me to go bowling. We never did make it to the bowling alley. Before we left his house he needed to meet with someone. That someone was a little late in coming. While waiting, I had joined some folks in watching Stardust in Thai. I think that movie must be rather bizarre/fantastic/etc on its own, when watched starting in the middle, in a language that you don’t really yet understand, it is positively baffling.

Sometime during waiting and Stardusting a dinner was arranged. Pi Tot, two guys from Indonesia (they show up no more suddenly in my retelling of the narrative than they did in my experience of it), and myself picked up Pi Silk and met Pi Bee for dinner. After a good time of conversing (and eating) we were driving back and talking about getting the two Indonesian guys to the bus station in the morning so they could go to Cambodia and all of a sudden I was being asked if I wanted to join the group in driving to the boarder in the morning. I agreed.

Following this decision we went back to Pi Tot’s house and had the prayer time mentioned in my last post.

After spending the night at Pi Tot’s house we set off, I would say “bright and early,” but it was too early for it to be bright even in this tropical region.

There was a lot about the boarder that was very depressing. I wish I knew how to make it so no child need ever beg again.

On a lighter note, if you are in the market for counterfeit brand name clothing, the Cambodian boarder is the place to go. One of the more amusing things to me were the clothes that had been given unmatching counterfeit tags. There were a lot of virtually identical socks, some with Adidas, some with FILA, and some with NIKE on the socks and on the tags. I also saw however socks that said FILA with NIKE tags. Additionally I saw a pair of pants that said “Abercrombie and Fitch” on the outside paper tag, but said “Old Navy” on the tag inside the pants.