maanantai 26. toukokuuta 2014

Crawling days

It feels like I need to update but I have nothing to say.
All day is the same: I try to find a job, sit in the guesthouse and try to spend as little money as possible. I have hit a boring section of travels. I give this city one more week and if by this time I don't have a job, I will go to another town.

I do remember a story from Koh Rong tho...

One day I was happily doing some landscaping in the guesthouse (chipping away a big rock of sandstone from a path) when one of the Khmer worker comes up to me: "Juhis. There is a snake in the kitchen. Maybe one of you guys can come and handle the situation?"
So I gather my machete and a 4 foot long stick and head up. As I get in to the kitchen I see one of the cooks poking around with a long piece of wood in the corner, jumping and screaming. When the snake gets out and gets pinned against a wall I see my first glimpse: it's a fucking pit viper! After a moment the viper gets loose from the grip of the wall and wood and starts heading away from the restaurant with about a dozen tourists watching, I tell the other to let it go. But instead of getting out it decides to climb a hibiscus in edge of the dining area. Not a proper spot for a lethal snake in the middle of lunch rush. A Khmer guy gets a small hit on it with its stick, which then breaks down. The snake is not hurt, but stunned enough to poke its head out of the bush. At this point I give it a full force overhead swing with my stick and it connects perfect at the back of the neck. The snake drops from the bush and we collect it to a safe place. After few moments we realie that the snake is not actually dead so we need to chop off its head. When I took the body and held it next to my body I realize that I have just been battling a 6-foot killer snake with a -what at this point startedd feeling small- stick and a big knife. Afterwards I was amazed how calm I was during the whole episode...

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