Start - and then stop...

Hi again,

sorry for not posting anything for the past days. The thing is that I caught food poisoning my second day here... A bit embarrasing, really... I should know better than to eat just about anything that comes my way without giving it a second thought. What happened was, that at my first day at the office my colleagues took me out to a nice lunch to welcome me to Cambodia. Very nice of them, indeed. I was so charmed by the whole thing that I didn't give it a second thought that it was a buffee... And everyone who's done the slightest little bit of travelling in Asia - including me - knows that we should follow the golden rule of eating out in Asia: 1) stay away from buffees 2) if you can't stay away: at least be careful about what you eat. But did I do any of this? No. So what happened? I've been in bed for almost four days, with high fever and unable to leave "the safety zone" which is the two meters distance between my bed and the bathroom. Cleaning the bathroom floor once and a while, if you know what I mean... I've now taken the risk to leave my room for a short while, to check my e-mails and update my blog. But this won't be a very long posting, if you get my message...

Anyway, before this food posoning struck me, I did my first day at the office. I got an introduction schedule for the coming month, which looks very interesting and well put together. It also includes a lot of time for my khmer lessons which will start next week and also time for looking at apartements. I'm looking forward to a "new start" at the office next week, after this quite unfortunate and rocky start. But here we go again...! :-)