Photos Uploaded!

Yesterday a third housemate moved in. His name is Georges (pronounced "George", he doesn't speak French). He is Lebanese, from Saudi Arabia, but grew up in Montreal. Seems like a really nice guy. He'll just be here until the end of August, because he's doing a short-term volunteer project with an NGO, doing some sort of environmental testing.

Unfortunately today has been one of those special days when things just don't go right. It started off fine, with a 5:30am run to the Independence Monument. On my way back I was chased by a few little dogs who probably though my legs looked juicy, and that was the beginning of it! Next, I was supposed to go to a conference about a new online database of NGOs in Cambodia. However, when I showed up, it turned out it had been cancelled and they had sent an email (not to me, but to my boss,last night after working hours). So I called my moto driver (one of the only ones who can speak English well, and the only person who knows how to drive me to my obscure work location), but he was going to be busy for an hour, so I went to a little cafe and got an iced coffee and used their wifi. I was crossing my fingers that I could upload all of my photos on facebook while I was there, so I eagerly selected them all and clicked "upload". An hour and a half later, the upload failed! However, some photos seem to have made their way onto Facebook in a haphazard way (in no particular order), and you can see them if you go to the link at the bottom of this post. Around the time the upload failed, I received a call from my moto driver saying that he was stopped by the police for having no helmet and no mirror (like practically everyone else in this country). So I waited for a while longer. Once he was released, Thy picked me up and just a couple of minutes after we took off, he got a flat tire. So I sat (in the shade, luckily, but in the blaring midday heat) while he got hire tire changed. I finally made it back to work and now things seem to be shaping up!

Here's my photo album (you can access it even if you don't have Facebook): http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2272355&id=21003581&l=1ef48b3d84

I'll be adding more photos when I get a chance.

Hope you are all doing well back home and around the world!