Your brother's belly is magnificent. I marvelled at it... Wow.. very nice train set collection. I am a collector of toys too so when I saw ur uncle:s train collection, my saliva dripped. Did ur family say that they were gonna miss you once u go to Cambodia?
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I think if I stay here much longer, I'll end up with a similar belly. The train set was awesome, but I love the diorama just as much as the trains. It's a shame with the thousands of dollars he likely has invested in all of his trains, that he never built a town or a mountain for the trains to run around in. Of course my family always remind me how much they will miss me, but nobody ever mentions coming to see me, but I've made peace with that after all these years.
Hi hi.. Justin.. wow.. those train sets cost thousands.. That is a belly that needs lots of investment. Just wondering.. Have your family travelled out of US to places in Asia before? Maybe Europe? I mean your family from the states. Most the toys I collect are usually affordable ones.. only my cameras go above a thousand.
My Dad's been to Honduras, Japan, Mexico, and a few Caribbean countries. He even visited Japan while I was living in Cambodia, but didn't come to see me. I think they're all just scared from all the the anti-communist propaganda they were raised on in the 50s and 60s. I think they think it's the wild west here, people killing each other in the streets, totally lawless.
The communist eras were pretty scary.. I think it stayed in their mind for a long long time. My parents still have these little stories of those times. I think what's even scariest is living with communist. But luckily, most of the world went democratic. Good to know that your back with your family. At first, I was worried for your absence till I thought, maybe you were on a flight back.
It's good that I read one of your post that you did not take any grudge with your parents for not visiting. I want to ask, it is that in the Western world, once their teenager reaches 18, they have to basically go out and earn a living on their own?
The stories Pov has retold me that she heard from her mom are enough to make a Hollywood blockbuster movie. The crazy thing is that her story is far from unique. Even wilder is Pov has some family members that stayed in Cambodia during the genocide and Khmer Rouge reign. They actually were permitted to stay in their house just outside Phnom Penh because they were subsistence farmers. I've hung out with those folks, and boy have they seen some of the most extremes humanity has to offer.
I hold no hard feelings for all of my western friends and family never coming here, but it's now been so many years these two worlds are totally separate that I now almost have like split personalities, using a different one for each place. You're right about the 18 thing for the most part. Most girls are uninterested in dating guys without at least a nice apartment, car, and good-paying job, ant that's at 18 years old. Pretty hard to live up to that when the standard of living in the USA has been decreasing the last 60 years.
Living through a genocide is hard... It is something that cannot be forgotten.. even listening to stories would make my goosebumps pop up as they too listen attentively.. luckily, now all those are over and the country is moving forward...
It is definitely hard to make it with the decreasing standard of living and inflation nowadays. Elon Musk is right about the world's biggest threat which is the decreasing of the world's population.