We haven’t forgotten that this is a special day - Adek’s birthday.
We did not want to make a fuss and not break the group out of the rhythm of intense visiting the area, for celebration of the day.
The secret could not be kept!
We had to throw a party.
Paweł - a Camboda’s resident for five years, offered his home for the ceremony and we started preparing:
Shopping for this occasion was a great experience, because what we needed for a late-night reception was not so easy to get here. Locals do not drink strong spirits. And how to sing "Hundred years ..." when only beer and cola are on the table.
But that's why we have Paweł with local experience and Sophea who knows the needs of Poles. We made it!
A tour around the city and the booths wasl bought: local whiskey "ALEXAND" (23%), some other "miracle" OSBORN "(37%), and "excavated” with difficulty from the depths of shop shelves - PETROF VODKA" (43%).
Then the purchase of fruit at the market, which has already closing its activity and finally buying hot food in the so-called street kitchens.
Everything took a long time, but we managed to celebrate before midnight!
Great wishes were endless!
And eventually an artistic program with a cabaret (!) brought us to tears of joy.
The cabaret began with a limerick:
(translated literally, in a non-poetic way
Certain Adek from the city of Szczecin
He chose to go to Cambodia in passing
So he made the trip plan so cunning and strenuous
Because Adek is just, respectable and capable
He listens insistently to our boughs
And he will respond patiently to everyone according to his needs
And that this trip is happening in January
We must embrace you, Adek, at your birthday party
And as to the Jubilarian, we give our best wishes
So Old Polish song, in Cambodia, we will sing a 100 years!
Signed: Cambodia in January 2018
Krystyna i Romek