Saturday, March 19, 2016

Angkor Wat 8 dies, 11 acquired Need to describe ankor

I knew it, I got left in the Tuk Tuk. Tiger is our driver and he speaks fluent English. DESCRIBE ANKOR

You know,  I'm really angry about the whole situation because we shouldn't have even had to make this visa run! We are supposed to already have the work permit promised by the school. One day, while eating a school sponsored lunch in the Korean restaurant, one of the managers let it slip that the school has worked it out with immigration so that they only need the number of work permits to match the number of employed foreigners regardless of what names are on the permits, so they only initiate the work permit process when the numbers don't match up. Barbara and some of the other teachers have been livid about this work permit delay, and now, so am I. Before Barbara left the USA, she spent a lot time, not to mention stress, driving all over California acquiring documents and spent a lot of money on a Federal Bureau of Investigation clearance, fingerprints, etc, all the things that the school insisted were required for this work permit in Vietnam, just to discover that most teachers arrive with nothing other than a passport and just do a visa run across the border every 90 days.

Well, at least I got to see Ankor Wat  instead of just getting a glimpse of the border by taking one of those all day visa runs offered by Vietnamese who drive carloads of foreigners to the border and back everyday. Barbara decided instead to combine her visa run with a short, cheap vacation since it is TET holiday and everything in Vietnam is shut down so people can return to their villages to spend time with family.


 Barbara didn't need me anymore and I wasn't going back on the plane anyway, so after she drank all three of us because it was hot, hot, hot, and she left me in the tuk tuk.  The driver, Tiger, gave me to one of his friends who has promised to recycle me.

Tiger driver gave Barbara a water bottle for our journey, hence, water bottle # 11 has arrived and she is beautiful! She is beautiful mainly because the Cambodian written language is very artistic.

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