Fact: nothing brings people together better than throwing around a little piece of plastic. There’s a group of people from all over the world that play pick-up Ultimate Frisbee every Sunday at a school here in Phnom Penh. I have now played Ultimate Frisbee in Russia and Cambodia, only about 190 countries left. We met at 3:30 and just played until the sun went down. It was very chill and just awesome Ultimate fun. It felt great to be able to run around and get some quality exercise. It was also cool to meet some other English-speaking people who live here, outside of my program. I met a lot of Westerners that are here working for NGO’s and volunteering. A small sample of the people I met: an Australian guy here for work, a Philippino guy here teaching, a guy from Oregon who is here doing some volunteer organic farming, another American guy doing solar energy work, a Canadian girl working with an NGO that helps victims of human trafficking and a guy who actually grew up in Atlanta and is here for work (he went to either Stars Mill or McIntosh high school). So the people were obviously really awesome and interesting, but what really made this Ultimate experience complete were all the chickens chillin’ near one of the endzones. Hopefully I'll be able to find the Ultimate scene when I get to China...in one week! I can't believe my time in Cambodia is almost over, it really flew by.
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