Evacuee

Do not panic people! I have now been evacuated to a non flooded area of Siem Reap...

Today a truck came down the road to save us!! We packed up all our belongings, and off we went down into the water to climb onto the back of the truck which had 6 bikes, half a kitchen, 6 backpacks, lots of noodles, a water filter, moto helmets, mango squash/juice (long story), boots, flip flops, kettles, a fluffy toy sheep, two cambodians, a dutch lady, two norweigans, one german, a scot, me.....oh and another cambodian man who gatecrashed half of the journey holding onto a hugeee butchers knife. It was an interesting ride, with people waving and shouting hello. It really did feel like we were being saved.

The biggest low of my day today was when I rushed back into my old flooded bedroom to grab the last item in there and found a floating poo....
High of the day - Being on dry land.

I am now staying on the 4th floor of a nice apartment block. I'm sharing the rooftop room with Nina, we have a huge rooftop terrace where we can see Ankor Wat and the rooftops of Siem Reap which is pretty cool.

The school doesn't want me to teach till thursday because the house is still flooded, I might go along and see for myself if there is anything I can do.

It has been a bit of an experience but I'm just lucky that we can move easily to somewhere else and even then, this is not my home. It is so sad though to see some of the cambodian houses that are made from dried palm leaves as they are just ruined... One family actually lives at the end of my road and all they have is a wooden bed just on the side of the road, they put up wooden kind of fences at night to section them off from the road. I hadn't seen them for a few days during the floods but today when we were leaving today they were back, sitting on the wooden bed with water just underneath. It's really hard to see these things and thats why we are trying to keep our spirits high and joke about our experiences...but all in all and jokes aside, what has happened here really is terrible. I was told today that someone drowned in the river yesterday. The children just jump in off the bridges as they have so much freedom to do what they like here but it is so so dangerous for them...

Will keep you all updated.