Adaptation Strains

The main reason this blog didn't get updated recently was myself not quite feeling able to compose anything. Having arrived in Battambang I would actually have expected to catch another flu in the Aircon bus. However, when I awoke the next day it was with some great headache and fever. It subsided over the next two days but was immediately followed by my first little diarreah. Fortunately, that one's over as well, but you can imagine that my urge to feed the web with impressions were quite diminished at the time. (And during the fever, they would anyway have been limited to the confines of my hotel room and the news from BBC).
In that hotel room I even watched some "Deutsche Welle" which currently seems rather exotic to me. (Despite the fact that most of the time, I am still very much surrounded by Germans).
I hope that one of these days I manage to remember taking my camera with me so I can share some pictures with you.
The only part of my body that still feels very much unadapted (except for my brain), is unfortunately my skin. A constant itching accompanies me just about everywhere. Tonight it also combined with a nearby wedding party to rob my sleep. One more reason to be glad, there's still some holiday ahead.
Only on the 20th will we leave for a 6Day conference in Siem Reap (Youth for Justice and Reconciliation) where we are co-writers of the report. Those will be our first days of work here.