Day 110 - Battambang or writing? No contest!

This is the hot seat... I've been sitting here for hours that's why.

Day 110 - 11th October

So it was a toss up between going to Battambang or staying to finish what I'd started. Seeing as I'm considering working here in a few months for an extended period, I think I might save the other province trips for when I come back.

The words flowed and I ended up six pages from the end. So it was roughly 44 pages today which took me a good six hours to plough through. It's just the re-reading that gets you. If you add one bit too much in the wrong place, the story is buggered.

Anyway, my day was spent doing this and reading up about Pchum Ben. This festival had been underway for ten days or so already but it becomes more prominent in the last three or four days. It is a celebration of offerings to the monks who bless the offering for the souls of dead ancestors. The Buddhist Khmers believe that by having gifts to give to the monks, it will help bring them good luck to both themselves and their passed relatives. Some educational stuff to say the least.

I wandered around to a nearby pagoda, observing from a distance to see how it was done. Monks were chanting, the locals were kneeling and praying, some providing their offerings. As the only Westerner nearby, I stood out like a ghost which was kinda relative to the festival.

I booked my bus ticket to Phomn Penh for Thursday night and did my laundry, it was about time my room stopped smelling like a student's.

I chilled out with my favourite quick stop noodles and a film on Netflix. All in all, not a bad Sunday!