world cup updates

I thought I would write a brief update from the beach... as I type I am looking out over white sands, at the lovely warm blue blue sea... mmmmm

actually I am at the beach to do work... team planning and team building... the team building bit is the fun bit because it means we can play play play... hooray!

Yesterday we arrived and went down to the beach... we ate BBQed squid and then got down to playing football... now I am fairly rubbish at this sort of thing but it was amusing running around in the sand and I scored a hat trick... (I think this is more due to the fact that no one wanted to tackle the foreigner than skill on my part). Lots of kids joined in, a chance for them to stop selling bracelets or collecting rubbish and just mess around like children should...
according to my colleagues Cambodians are really into football, and watch as many of the world cup matches as they can stay awake for (we are 6hrs ahead here)... teams supported are England and Brazil! When questioned about the Cambodian national squad they unanimously concluded they were rubbish.. Loosing every game... although apparently the under 14 squad is great!

After football people decided to go swimming... I should mention that when most Cambodians go swimming they just run in the water in their clothes and don’t actually swim (they cant)... but splash around... looking around the beach in Sianoukville you notice a stark contrast between the scantily bikini clad foreign tourists and the Cambodians in their shorts and vests... the small irony is that sometimes due to the see-through nature of their clothes the Cambodians can be revealing more than the foreigners!
now my swim suit was back in the hotel, but I would have felt uncomfortable wearing it anyways what with everyone else being fully dressed... unfortunately I was wearing some trousers which are really quite loose and I thought they would fall off in the water - nightmare! Fortunately a kid selling beach shorts came to my rescue and for 1 English pound I bought a pair of blue shorts which have ''World Cup 2010'' embroidered on them... interesting... it doesn’t say South Africa or anything like that so perhaps they were made before that location was announced? anyways these shorts were preferable to the white ones with palm trees (huge see-through potential there) or the purple ones with sleeping dogs on them (nasty) or the ones which were designed for thin Asians and not fat telfys (most of the selection)

once I was suitably dressed in shorts and t-shirt I could go play in the sea... oh the warm warm sea... so unlike the cold Atlantic sea...

over and out xx