We've had some time to update photos (mostly courtesy of nothing better to do on a fast day), so by all means, enjoy!
Siem Reap
Phnom Phen
Ko Samui
We spent Shabbat this week at a nice new resort connected to our dive place. The resort has beautiful rooms with great air conditioning and LCD HDTV. Sadly, we're in the bungalows nearby without tv (or hot water, but it's pretty hot here anyway so perhaps we'll get used to that). They are called fan rooms, which is the nice way of saying there's no AC, but a weak fan that blows hot air around the room and squeaks all night. The ambient noises of the garden and nearby beach are pretty soothing, though kind of broken up by the dueling Australians coming home from a pleasant night out at 6 AM. I'm not sure what they were arguing over (Adina thinks it was a girl), but I did get a good idea of exactly what each one felt the other can fucking do to himself. It was like getting caught between Danny and Tali Stein, circa 2001. The price of the room is right, though, since we get the room for free with the diving course. Since we couldn't bear to stay in the room all day, we had a much more active shabbat than usual, we managed to walk up and down the beach. A lot. And we finished our reading assignment for the diving course, making us perhaps the first people ever to do so.
We head back to the classroom, then to the pool tomorrow for more learning. Then Monday and Tuesday it's into the ocean we go!! Wish us luck!
PS - I fogot to mention one of the coolest things we've ever seen on my last post. On our second night on Samui we were sitting on our beach waiting for a non-existent sunset (turns out the beach faces the wrong way) but we did see a tornado form over water a few miles off shore. Apparently this is called a waterspout (thanks, wikipedia) and was pretty harmless because it moves really slowly and stays offshore. Though I'm pretty sure if I were captain of the idiot yachts that were getting really close I would have stepped back a bit. Pictures are in the gallery.
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