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Wednesday, April 28, 2004
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Day 8: Moving from hotel to my new place
In a few hours, I will be moving to my new place. It's an apartment on the second floor of a building near my hotel. It has a balcony overlooking the usually populated bars and restaurants within the vicinity. I have my own kitchen, a big living room, a nice bed room with my own restroom, and I dunno what for, but I have another restroom in the kitchen area hehehee.
I hope it doesn't take a long time for the phone company to install my phone so I can connect to the internet from my place.
One of the biggest challenges to my work here is the language barrier. It's a good thing the daughther of the apartment owner knows a bit of english (she's studying english language), otherwise I would have dragged my cambodian friends for a simple apartment hunting. But not all people here speaks english. At work, whenever we have meetings, we find it often necessary to translate a couple of times to enable some of our partners to understand what we are saying. Nevertheless, that is not their fault. We at the project team, need to adjust to this situation and build their capacities.
posted by Allan at 1:17 PM (GMT+8)
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