Back for my final month

Back to school back to school
Back to teaching and coaching. How do you forget so much over 2 weeks? It's like I had to re go over the whole chapter in 2 days. That's what I did and then tested them on Friday. They did well and it kicked them in gear to study. Training was not the best. April is the hottest month. With it always being in the hundreds in the afternoon and never going below 90 it makes training difficult. They are now going into there futsal season where they play it on cement. No joke a cone was melting to the cement. Yeah um it's hot

At the orphanage on Monday we went to coach and the girls were not aware that we were starting so we told them and then returned on wednesday. ( you gotta love Cambodia communication) practice went great. So I then told them they did well and let them scrimmage at the end. Well practice can only be so good for so long at the orphanage, once they started playing one of the good girls was mad bc she thought the teams were unfair. She then decided to sit down in the middle of the field errrrrrrrrrrr!! It had almost gone so well. I tried to talk to her saying she will never get better by sitting on the ground and bla bla and she didn't budge but she did go and sit off the field. I tried again to talk after she was off the field, but she didn't even look at me. Good news though ha - the girls are starting to learn, bc when they do something wrong or bad - they quickly look up at me to see if I saw them. Progress little progress but progress

Bali

Bali
Indonesia is made up of about 17500. I went to the most popular, Bali
The highlight for me was getting up every morning to go surfing. I figured I needed to practice practice practice. So that's what I did. I managed to ride a ton of waves and drop in on a few. I had some old Aussie dudes helping me one day and I finally successfully dropped in on a wave and road it to the beach bc I was pooped. When I looked back at them they were pumping there fist and I couldn't hear them but I am sure cheering as well. I played a board game one afternoon with the local beach bums. They mocked every word I said and ganged up on me to make sure I would not win. They loved me!! With only a short time there I was not able to see everything Bali has to offer so I must go back!

Songkran

( thialand new year)
Back in the big dirty city of Bangkok

Biggest water fight in the world! Cramped packed streets, dancing, water gun fights, buckets of water, music, pancake powder going all over your face and cloths, people throwing buckets of water at tuk tuks and moto bikes, you are never dry for a second.

Way cooler then the 4 of July but by day 2 I was like can I please just be dry for one minute.
Last three days

To the peak

Hong kong
I stayed with a local, named tony who showed me the best things in hong kong. For starters I want you to picture the smallest bathroom ever. Were you have to sit sideways to go potty. The shower head is above that and were you can wash your hands with out standing up. Living space in hong kong is tiny- is what I am getting at.
Tony brought me to tradtional favorite din sum restaurants, I new this not bc he told but bc the restaurants were always busy and full of local old people reading the paper : ) din sum is were you order a few dishes and share the din sum can me dumplings, rice portage with fermented duck egg, rice with some sauce and a chickens foot, a steamed bun filled with a yummy creamy dessert type flavor or pork and onion maybe throw a shrimp in there. I actually really love it and I could go for some more right now. I became a pro at using chop sticks with only using a fork once in my 5 days there.
I of course went and saw the main sights. Went camping in the rain with a few people who have never camped before. Hahah I don't think they are the camping type. Saw beautiful beaches and of course climbed a mouton or two
Hong kong has way more to offer then just a big crazy city, I will put it at the top of the list for cities I like.

Champs

We are the champions my friends, and the mighty girls were so happy as the held hands and smiled off the field. They played against a team they had lost to last year so it was nice to beat them this year.
Now they have a 2 week break from school and I no they are sad from me as well.
There break is for the Khmer new year, were they will go and visit relatives and friends. This is one of the biggest breaks they have all year. They go to school year around with having breaks here and there.

Fell behind

Champs, hong kong, thia new year, Bali, and back to school -- coming this week ....

Vietnam

Vietnam
Phu qouc 

My soccer girls were a little upset when I told them I was missing a game to go to vietnam 
Boarder crossing was an adventure. They gave me the 5 dollar visa which is probably made up and then ended up charging me a dollar for the one guy and 5 for the other so it cost me 11 but that's a steal compared to the normal price visa.
I stayed in a little bungalow just a minute walk to the beach. Went on a fishing and snorkeling tour. I hahaha ended up going on the wrong boat but it was same tour different companies it was fine everyone laughed besides the tour guide. Once my boat arrived at same snorkeling spot I jumped on the boat I was suppose to be on. I got the privilege to see a fisher man poop off the side of his boat. 

I promised the girls I would be back in time for there game on monday. The tour promised me I would be back in time for it also,  I don't no why I believed them. Started out that I got picked up from my bungalow he brought me about half a mile away to get on to a little van who then back tracked past my place ???? ( very organized) then we get to fairy and there are way to many people on the boat. Everyone in the iyl got kicked off the boat it took over an hour. Lots of mad people. There were also lots of Vietnam people who just got on the boat with out a ticket we clapped as it departed an hour late to go for 20 seconds only to be called back by the police. They yelled and said a bunch of stuff I didn't understand and then we finally departed again. When we arrived on the main land to get a bus back to Cambodia we were told it would come at 1230, it didnt come in tell 2. At the boarder I was nervous bc I didn't no if my visa was legit but it was not a problem. --- there was no way I was making it to the game. I arrive back at 4 and I find out the team we were playing forfeited. 

Now for the nock out games. We are seated number one and we play bright and early tomorrow morning. 

Lots going on

Soccer tournament in the capital of Cambodia. I depart with two coach buses full of screaming kids most with 3 kids to a seat. They were so excited to go to a soccer tournament. We stayed at a school! It was something I am glad I did but don't ever ask me to do it again. 100 kids sleeping in the top floor of one of the school rooms, tin roof pouring down rain, can't hear the person next to you. it's so loud with the rain hitting the ruff. Next thing you no there is leaks and half of the tile floor is wet. It didn't phase the kids they just moved there mats. I went and slept in the library. all the kids were up at 4 am playing and screaming!! WTF go back to sleep. I go down to the bathroom which is not even in the school it is on the outside. With buckets of water and holes in the ground ( normal) the kids laugh at me when I reach the bathroom bc there is a line and the look on my face must of said ... Why in the world are you up for the game all ready go back to sleep... I have to wait in line to go squat in this Asian toilet,.... You guys have to play soccer all day why aren't you sleeping, I just slept in a library, no I don't want to eat nasty rice portage, no I didn't sleep well,; yes I am happy despite all this to experience this soccer tournament with you. 

That day a friend from Brainerd ( Melissa Hanson) arrived to find out what waiting around in Cambodia is like. She showed up at  the fields and we Waited and waited and Waited for the tuck to come and pick the girls and us up to go back to our wonderful place we called home. before going to bed I was told 3 different answers on what time the bus was leaving in the morning.  We got up in the Morning to make our way to the cost of Cambodia for the mighty girls " state" tournament. We got up 630 to catch a bus at 7 that didn't come Intell 8 something. so again we waited and waited and waited. When we arrived we sat at another school and Waite and waited ( in this time we waited and waited I got the girls to dance and sing a bit and we had photo shoots)  after waiting and waiting sam  (the main man) came and told them he rented an apartment for the 2 weeks for the team and coaches and English teachers to stay in. 

Mellisa and I went and stayed on the river - which was awesome bc we were able to swim and paddle on surf boards and to escape the heat. The river is neat. The current switches directions based on the tide. It's a u shape river that goes to the ocean. 
The girls had a day break so Mel( she made it easier for the mg to say her name) and I went kep ( a town on the beach about 35 min from where we were) on a moto bike. It was quite the day. We started of breaking the mirror on the moto, the screw came out and it fell off wile driving it. Then we had the two of us on the bike with goofy helmets my backpack and Mels big real backpackers backpack. It was a sight to see. We arrived in kep and started to plan our day in half. In planning we went to three different places trying to figure a way to go to phu cock island in vietnam. After pissing off a Cambodian Tavel agent women we had it all settled only to get back to the room and relies I didn't have my pass port bc I had to give it to the moto bike rental dude. 
Other kep stories-- broken glasses, being screwed over in a room for money, monkeys, lady boy, hamik breaking wile I was laying in it, cambodian locks one key fits all,  big boats made more like big canoes, butterflies, nature snakes geckos toads bugs, crab crab crab crab crab crab crab, ghost town, French math skills, And super ha -- if you have been to Cambodia you no what super means! All of those things I listed make up kep 

The girls have a lot of down time in this tournament , so I see them playing cards and they ask me if I want to play. I ask first for them to explain it to me. They kinda try but English is a problem. So I make the mistake on saying o well I will learn as we go. They were playing for money and needless to say I lost all of my money. -I think they were cheating thou, they thought it was hilarious bc they were seeing my competitive side and I was losing all of my money. one of the mg won most of the hands and thanked me wile smirking for the snack she went and bought her self. 

Side note-- as I write this entry there is something in my bathroom????Like a bat or monkey or bird or ????? Not sure if I should get the bungalow owner dude or just open the door and see if it attacks me.