Phnom Penh Arrival

I am now at the house I will be staying at for a week until English camp begins.  I'm staying on the fourth floor, and had to haul my suit cases up all those stairs.  I thank God that I am not so far out of shape that I collapsed, thought I felt like it by the time I reached my bedroom.  There is a wonderful roof-top terrace with chairs to sit out on.  Very nice on this 32 degrees C which is 89 F.  Not bad if it weren't for the humidity.  But it is good to sweat, and I don't have to exercise a bit. :)

God has been very good.  I sailed through immigration and customs with out any problems.  For those of you who will be doing this next week, this is what I did.  After disembarking you will walk a ways and descend some steps.  At the bottom of the steps across the room is a counter where I took my passport and visa application (the one with the picture).  I handed that to them and walked to the end of the counter.  There, after they process your visa application, they will be looking for you based on your passport picture.  If they don't match you to your picture, they will hold up the passport.  After that, I walked up to immigration where they looked at my passport and visa, stamped some things and let me continue on.  I picked up my luggage (which I was a little worried about - but I have everything) and proceeded to customs.  The officer took my customs form and told me to continue.  Very easy!

When I got outside I started looking for Phearum who was looking for me. :)  What an experience.  Trying to match up with someone you have never met and who has never met you.  I didn't see anyone that may have been looking for me except a lady looking for someone from California.  I tried Ilana's phone but called the wrong Phearum (I think it was the Phearum I know in Siem Reap - didn't know that until after I hung up).  Anyway we met up.  Phearum thought my family was coming with me today so was looking for a family.   He dropped me off and headed to the field conference, so I'll meet up with him again on Monday.

You can be praying for me.  I will be here all weekend without any contact.  Should be an adventure!  I asked Ada, the house help here, if she could go to the market for me and get some fruit and vegetables.  I am really looking forward to the fruit and veggies!

Lots of stuff I need to do.  I think the first thing will be to find a map somewhere and try to figure out where I am.  Good practice for when the Amazing Race calls on me to be a contestant. :)

Well, I'll write more later.  Leave a comment if you read this so that I know friends are keeping up with my adventures.