Halloween, Boatrace and more kittens!

katja-horsch — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Oli's best friend Nick was in Cambodia for 3 weeks and when we met, we visited Angkor Wat together, where Berti also found freedom and peace for once.

Berti was a beautiful green pigion, who was rescued before going into the soup-pot at the restaurant where I live.

sometimes I feel like living in a zoo!

There were plenty more, but I noticed it too late and so Vandy could only safe him.

this is Berti!

It was the night before I went to Siem Riep to meet Oli and his best mate Nick.

Berti travelled from one side to the other side of the country the next day!

I decided quickly to take Berti with me as the House is full of cats and dogs and I thought maybe Smileys guestHouse would look after it in future. So I took Berti in a carrier bag on the bus and during the bus stops, I took him to the toilet, let him out and give him water.

But Smileys didn't want him. So Oli and me spent a night with him in our room together.

Nick found out about a Bird-Sanctury in Angkor Wat, so we decided to go there and hand Berti over to them.
First we visited Bantey Srey, then the amazing underwater carvings at Spean-Kaball until we finally reached the gate of the animal centre.

Bantey -Srey Temple

To our amazement, it was a Centre for Conservation of Biodiversity and more a Rescue Centre for abused and/or abondent animals. They took Berti and after a few days, they e-mailed me that Berti had fully recovered and they could reliese him back into the forest. They also mentioned that eating this kind of bird was illegal.

this one was kept together with chickens and has a broken wing

this one is a very rare stork, an amazing creature

this one was kept as a doll and was dressed and had nailvarnish and stuff

It was a very happy day for me, seeing Olis best friend in real for the first time and spending time together, all the beautiful scenerie, Davys Birthday and Berti was in good hands, maybe that's why the Halloween party in the evening was a little exessive?

to a nice evening!

the sexy kittens arrived!

This one is a particularly attractive tom cat!

Party on in "Angkhor What???"

Oh Dominique, hold me I think I need to go home now...where is Oli???

Meanwhile in Stung Treng, Vandy and Rek-smey opened their own sandwich buisness. They sell infront of the house every day from 5-9 pm. It's rather convenient for me as I like to eat bread a lot! So for dinner I have now every evening outside a white sandwich with spring onion, cucumber and gimchy. That is a Cambodian pickle made from ginger, onion, papaya, garlic, salt, sugar and lemon. I love to sit there after work and see the sunset. It's beautiful.

Yes, this is my daily Riverview!

Vandys sandwich stand

the Stung Treng Dragon boat crew were busy practising

these are the two new puppys. One died the other day when it was hit by a moto

Stung Treng evening light

Tilda is having a little snooze on my lap

Rambo likes the sattelite chair as much as I do

time for a nap

you are growing so fast...

my little Rambo!

dinner with the new volunteers Ingran, Jan and Thea

Workwise we were kept busy with doing a Midterm review of our project, having an annual partnership review and of course writing endless reports about our progess and plans.

Mr. Narem and Mr. Maradeth from the RTC

in our VSO office

The mid term review of our project

the RTC director and David

our project donated for new posters in the classrooms

Sambath the translator and Carol

only 2 dots?

The boat race this year was very well organised and great fun!

This years VSO boat crew in orange!

Soklaing and Oli

John, me and Oli, all pumped up and ready to win!

Number 210 was our boat