I have to prepare things I want to take with me for two years of living in Cambodia. I can take 25kg with me, and a motorcycle helmet. Having packed four times already, but each time there's still too much, I'm finding it hard to decide what's necessary and what isn't.

It feels very unreal, thinking about going away for two long years without returning to familiar people and places. Everything I've heard and read about Cambodia so far is very positive, and I can't wait to see it for myself. Is it really true that they eat deep-fried spiders, and that they drink bat's blood? is Angkor Wat really that astonishing?

Well, I'd better get on. More later, maybe from Phnom Penh.

my leaving do from work