We noticed this morning that the fridge we get our drinks from has been filled with rice wine. This is dangerous stuff - we remember from Borneo.
They have a three day new year here and it starts tomorrow which means tonight is New Years Eve and there is a party at our guest house - still not sure if we are invited and, because we didn't know we booked tour for tomorrow so we have to be up at 7am. Lovely. Even more lovely considering that the MOST MASSIVE speakers have been set up just outside our ground floor window. Oh joy. I think our earplugs might just get the volume to about 150 decibels!
Anyway, popped along to nursery this morning to help out with their New Year party. Got given very nice sandwich - pigs ear and salad. Yum.
Up to house for house blessing and gift giving - much dancing and beer drinking by some. Much laughter at expense of one of our house building colleagues who was handed a water bottle and started chugging it back thinking it was water only to discover it was rice wine......nasty, bless her, she was on canned soft drinks from then on!
Older monk started the ceremonies and then the younger monks from the monastery arrived to finish the job - I'd naively been expecting a sort of small procession of monks or something being as the monastery is a 5 min walk away but no, they arrived on the back of mopeds!
My Cambodian dancing is not good. I simply cannot get my fingers to bend back like that.
Back for lunch and evidence that partying from 9am util 12 is a dangerous practice - I fell asleep so that was the afternoon - oops.
Its now 6pm and the party is just starting judging by the noise. Martyn and I have slotted nicely back into our 'pre Claire and Ian New Year Party' routine. I am sat reading a book and Martyn is busy working on the donated laptops. Maybe we'll visit the party later but hey, if not we've got another three days of this to go!
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