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What a week!

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I thought that I would fill you in on our week.  Right now, Rich is teaching Greek to some of our older students in the afternoons.  So, in the mornings, he studies and then twice a week, he goes to language school. This last week, Sunday through Tuesday was just normal.  However, on Wednesday, when we got up early to go to the stadium to work out, we came downstairs to the entire bottom floor of our house underwater.  Ugh!  Water was spraying.  Since we live in Cambodia, and therefore can't drink the water, we have a water filter machine that pipes water into the machine and filters it for us.  Well, sometime in the night, the tubing that gets the water into the machine broke off, so all night, the water was just spraying.   Luckily, all our floors are tile, so no harm there.  And the front doors (gateway) don't have a lip on them, so we could swoosh the water straight out.  So early Wednesday morning, for 30 minutes or more, Rich and I swept water out of the house.

On the highway between Phnom Penh and camp

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I thought you might enjoying seeing some of the sights on the highway.  This is one of our major highways. These are just minivans.  We did see one with a moto in the back, like this one, but a guy was sitting on it while riding in the car.  I didn't get any pictures of the insides of these vans, since I didn't want it to be too obvious that I was taking pictures, but in all of these, there were at least 5-6 people per seat , plus extras in the back, hanging out the doors, and on top.  This motorcycle was hauling a cart with 4 of these big water vats.  And these motorcycles are small, like 60 cc.  It is amazing to me how many hours they can ride like this.  In this van, there was 6 people behind the back seat, plus bags.  In the back of the pickup is a couple boys that I had fun waving at.  And yes, this van is going down the highway.  They are so packed in these things!  I think there was over 40 people in this van that has 4 benches.  This lady on the back