TV Bugs

joylani 130pxWe’ve spent the last several days in Phnom Penh finishing up our volunteering with New Hope Orphanage. Aside from the actually volunteering, our stay in Phnom Penh has been unique in that we developed a little bit of a routine, visiting the orphanage in the morning, errands, lunch and internet in the afternoon before heading back to the orphanage for a couple more hours, dinner, and usually a little TV before going to bed. The TV has been an added treat for us, particularly with all the recent campaign coverage. There are just a handful of English channels spread amongst dozens of Khmer, Thai, and Chinese language channels. We quickly memorized what channel is where to avoid surfing through all the channels to find what we want. Our most watched stations are: CNBC (of course), CNN, National Geographic, and Discovery. After too many nights at 89 F in our room on the 7th floor of the hotel, Matt and I decided to switch to an AC room for our last night. In addition to the coolness of AC, there’s also less stairs as our room is now on the 4th floor. Apparently, the room switch also came with a change in the TV hook-up. “I don’t like this, all the channels are different,” lamented Matt as he searched for our top stations. After a few more seconds of channel surfing he seemed to have come to terms with the TV change as he exclaimed, “They get Bloomburg in this room??! Where the heck were we all these other nights!”

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