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African Hair??What the @#$%!!

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So I changed my hairstyle a week ago..I have it in a ponytail with an extension at the end,or at the top.I did not expect that my new hairstyle would be such a big deal..lol.I got even more people staring at me(I dint know it would be possible to have more people staring at me..am in shock!!) and my kids at school are asking me all sorts of questions..' Teacher how do you sleep?' ,' how do you shower?".."Does it hurt?" Did you do it by yourself?".."Is it real?"..."Can I please touch your hair teacher?"..Well I can totally understand why African hair is so weird to them,because we Africans are always doing different things to our hair all the time and most Cambodians easily get confused!!Well,I have a history of telling stupid little lies to the Cambodians..just tiny little lies that no one else would ever believe!Like one day I was with a group of Cambodian women and it was late evening and had started to get dark..so I pretended how

Crazy traffic in Phnom Penh..

Its been ages since I last posted..blame it on my excitting social life,I barely have time to sit down and write.Anyway I recently moved out of my apartment for various reasons,and now I live alittle bit far from everything..it's crazy.In Cambodia everyone complains about the crazy traffic..and I never understood why because:    1) For two years my place of work was a 3 minute walk from my apartment!    2) The supermarket where I did all my shopping was a 5 minute motoride away.    3) If I needed fresh veggies..and stuff,there was a market like 5minute away(walking)    4) If I had to go out I did that later on in the night like after 9pm and there is usually no traffic at this time.                            So now you know why I never understood what everyone was complaining about.But then everything changed. I got a new job that was on the other side of Phnom Penh, I changed apartments and now live on the ooother side of Phnom penh(am I even in phnom penh..seriously) and