The Rural Village Game !

One of the great things about my job is that I get to meet the local people of Cambodia. We are helping some of "worst of the worst" financially (shout out Jo-Tel) and part of my job involves scouting new locations for our water well project. Basically, it consits of meeting with the village chief and offering a clean water source for free. We have yet to meet a chief that says no.

As you can tell from the above photo, the water well is about the only thing the family has beside their homemade house, which by the way, most of which is made from their own land. This is so common in the vast majority of Cambodia, where over 85% of the people live in rural areas.

Well, when I was heading back to town after a bumpy, rocky, and very dusty moto-bike ride on a blazing hot day, my driver stopped suddenly on the side of the clay road. A family was buchering some sort of animal on the side of the road in front of their house. See second photo. My driver got all excited and started shouting some Khmer words to the folks, and they hollered some more Khmer back to him. They got a plastic bag and put some meat in it. He tied up the bag and put it on the handle of the moto and we were off.

Thus the game was born: Name that Animal !

Go ahead: Take a guess....

~ J-Dub