A Kenyan in Cambodia

So,I have some new classes this sem and every time I meet new students for the first time,its always the same.Introduce myself,ask them to introduce themselves,then tell them that they are free to ask me any questions they would like..just to know me better.The questions are always the same...1)"Excuse me Ms. Kim how come you have such small ears?"...I like this question,because i never know how to answer it,doesn't matter how many times I have been asked.I know I have small ears,my brother alwaaaaays teased me about it when I was home,but they are not really quite easy to notice..especially not the first time you meet me,coz what are you doing looking at my ears??Well some observant people always notice after say the 6th or 7th meeting,but rarely the 1st.  Next question is always...2)"Tr why are you so black".I like this question..its asked in the most innocent of ways.They are really honestly just curious.So i go on and on about different races bla bl...

Bangkok,Thailand was fun!!Really fun, and big and awesome.I fell in love with the place and I will definitely go back. I was amazed at how diverse the people in Bangkok are,like the last time I saw that many Arabs was definitely in Kenya. Arabs are really really cute I remember wanting to steal some super cute Arab babies...just kidding. The taxis were cheap compared to the taxis here in Phnom Penh..I remember being stuck in traffic for over an hour and still paying just a little over 5 dollars...and at night my friends and I would go a pretty good distance and still pay like just over 2 dollars. I was amazed at how nobody was staring at me..at some point I started feeling neglected actually...mmmmh that is disturbing!But I don't blame them,they have seen it all probably so a random black girl walking down the street...who cares!And I found it so weird that in Bangkok,they don't drive big SUVs...Cambodia is way poorer and more remote than Thailand..like we cant even compare...

Yes,am finally in Bangkok and I must say I am really impressed.It's my first time here and I am beyond excited.It is a big city and coming from Cambodia(tiny little hole),it looks amazing.Atleast some tall buildings..phew..the tallest building in Cambodia is..what 10 floors???lol am kidding but seriously Cambodia doesnt have tall buildings period.So yeah happy to see that here.It is really weird how Bangkok reminds me so much of Nairobi in Kenya!!ooh i miss home.Anyway I want to tell you how i got here... This is how things work in Cambodia,people are treated according to their skin colour.It's not a good thing to say or admit..but its the truth.I did not realise I was black until I came to Cambodia!I know how weird that sounds but it is the truth.In Kenya everybody is black(well almost)so my whole life there was never a situation where anybody's skin colour was an issue,so I never realised I was black...until I came to Cambodia.So I had to get a Thai visa right?and I was...

This is probably the most mis-leading heading I have had lol.Am not going to talk about some dude called Victor that I love with all my heart...I can't eat or drink or sleep or even move,or whatever else people can't do when they are in-love,in-lust or in-like with each other.Love,lust,like...mmmh that is a topic i haven't talked about yet.Well,am an African and for the longest time these were taboo topics to talk about..or even think about.People were so conservative(please note the past tense,coz nowadays it's really different)everybody was a virgin when they got married and some tribes even had this special ceremony immediately after the wedding where the groom and bride would go into a special room with a bed lined with a white sheet..they were suppposed to "do it" as the rest of the village is singing and dancing outside and then after sometime one of the village women would go in and get the white bed sheet and bring it out wave it at the dancing crowd.N...

Heey!It's a new year and am so happy and excited...for no apparent reason(am always happy and excited mmmmh that's weird!)Anyways I had a wonderfull christmas though I wish my family was with me(who  doesn't?)and I told my friends here how 'excitting' my christmas day was...So this is what happened..ok I attend this church that just recemtly started and the members are not many..we decided to make some flyers and give them out inviting Cambodians for lunch in our small church on christmas day.We made about 70-100 flyers and I was expecting what?like 50 people max right?We made alllot of food and i was scared all the food will go to waste right?Well shock on us...300 people showed up!!!!!it was freaking amazing..or not!!And i was inchargeof serving food...it was unbelievable..I spent half the time going like "I can't give you more food,some people haven't eaten...uuuh haven't i seen you on the line before.....uuuh please wait...uuuh stop pushing...uu...

So I changed my hairstyle a week ago..I have it in a ponytail with an extension at the end,or at the top.I did not expect that my new hairstyle would be such a big deal..lol.I got even more people staring at me(I dint know it would be possible to have more people staring at me..am in shock!!) and my kids at school are asking me all sorts of questions..' Teacher how do you sleep?' ,' how do you shower?".."Does it hurt?" Did you do it by yourself?".."Is it real?"..."Can I please touch your hair teacher?"..Well I can totally understand why African hair is so weird to them,because we Africans are always doing different things to our hair all the time and most Cambodians easily get confused!!Well,I have a history of telling stupid little lies to the Cambodians..just tiny little lies that no one else would ever believe!Like one day I was with a group of Cambodian women and it was late evening and had started to get dark..so I pretended how ...

Its been ages since I last posted..blame it on my excitting social life,I barely have time to sit down and write.Anyway I recently moved out of my apartment for various reasons,and now I live alittle bit far from everything..it's crazy.In Cambodia everyone complains about the crazy traffic..and I never understood why because:    1) For two years my place of work was a 3 minute walk from my apartment!    2) The supermarket where I did all my shopping was a 5 minute motoride away.    3) If I needed fresh veggies..and stuff,there was a market like 5minute away(walking)    4) If I had to go out I did that later on in the night like after 9pm and there is usually no traffic at this time.                            So now you know why I never understood what everyone was complaining about...