Monday, September 15, 2008

Monday, Sept. 15, 2008: Sianoukville, Cambodia

Well, I am going to give it another try. I have been in Cambodia since the 5th of August, with most of the time spent here in Sianoukville. This is the beach area but it is also a bar area. I don't know what to think, really, which could explain why I am taking so much time here. My first trip to Cambodia was a real thriller, full of lots of travel and visiting Angkor Wat and Phnom Penth and having a pretty good time. This trip is like the other side of the moon compared to the first one. It is full of negativity, rejection, change in plans and surprises every day. At first, when one comes here, one thinks that the recent and trajic history must be a colossal mistake and the civil war was not really a civil war. This I believe, it was not really a civil war, it was an aberration and a monstrocity that the succeeding days and months are trying to cover up and destroy. So, I don't know what to think. I would never say that all things are deserved because, in my own life, much of what I had to endure was not deserved; it was the result of ignorance and prejudice.

About the election in America, I have watched both of them from here in Cambodia. Two completely different Conventions. Of course, I was kind of taken off guard by Sarah
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