My book

Today I wrote a book using an online program. 

http://storybird.com/books/my-family-travels/

pepper plantation

 

 

thes are the peper plants. they grow like a vine up the pole.

 

 

this is how the pepper grows. they start off as little beads

and then get bigger till they are red and then the workers pick off the red ones

and the green ones stay on the stem. they pick off the stem and let it dry on the stem.

and once it is dried it turns black.

 

 

this is a picture of the rows of pepper plants.

 

 

this is how the pepper grows on the plant.

 

this is how the green pepper is dried and turns black.

 

this is the owner telling us about how the pepper dries.

 

this is the morning pick. they pick every morning so the pepper will keep growing.

 

the dried black pepper off the stem.

 

 

cambodia cooking class

Today we took a cooking class  

we made fish amok, fried spring rolls and beef lok lak.

Before we got

to the cooking we went and bought all the ingredients. They have very different spices then we do and very weird stuff too. like pig heads to eat.  Gross! cow intestines.  really
gross!  ha.

Im smashing up the fish curry paste in a morter and pestle. 

I'm frying the spring rools in oil 

These are the spring rolls after i was done frying them 

 This is all the food that we made

This is the fish Amok in banana leaf with rice. It was steamed in the banana leaf as a bowl. But you don't eat the bowl. 

The is the beef Lok Lak. With a garnish of lettuce, tomato and onion

 they were all very good. the fish amok had a curry taste to it. i didn't try the spring rolls because I'm sick  with a cold.  I'm just getting over it now. but I'm at the

stage that all that Flem stuff is in my lungs and i cant breath very good so i didn't eat very much which sucks because it all tasted soo good. the beef lok lak is the best of
them all. it tasted like something i've never tasted before. it was soo good.

cambodia market

 

Today we went to a market. Its the place where local people buy food for the day. They go to the market every day.  

 

 

 

These are crickets!! 

 

 

 

 

 Here is the fruit area. Coconuts, mango, bananas and lots more

 

 Our cooking teacher was telling us all about whats in the market and what the names of things are that we didn't know.

 

 

 

Shes making waffles in an old fashioned waffle maker over a fire 

 

 

                                                      She is selling chicken and duck eggs

the bamboo traincar in Batambang, Cambodia

we  went to the bambo train it was scarier than a roller coster because we weren't strapped in and that the hole thing comes off the rail tracks because it is only one rail line and if someone comes along in the other direction they have to take the train off the tracks so they can pass.
 so that  means that if it can come off, if you hit somthing you will go flying. skary I know!

 

This is what happened when we were going along and someone came from the other direction.

 

 

 

They are taking off the train from the tracks

 

 

Now they are putting it back on

 

 

 

Thats the person driving the train. Its a motor with a rubber belt that goes on the axel and makes it spin.

When he pushes on the stick it tightens the belt on the axle and makes it go faster.  

Batambang, Cambodia

today we spent our day climbing a mountain and touring the killing caves from when the Khmer Rouge was happening. The Khmer Rouge was the Cambodian war. we climbed to see the killing caves. That's where the Khmer Rouge threw the people in these caves from the very top and they died when they hit the bottom from the impact.  they were also beaten before they were thrown into the caves. One of the facts about the Khmer Rouge is that when they killed the people they left them to rot and when the war was over. People all went down to
pick up all the bones and put them in a big pile for i don't know why. it was very sad to go down there because so many people died. they were all doctors and artists
and teachers and all the kids from 6 to the age of 11 that were the kids of those people.

 we also saw the fruit bat they were so huge they were like a foot and a half in wing span and they were thick to.










i also tried a new food today it is called a pamelo. it is like a cross between an orange and grapefruit but a lot drier but it was very good. .then we went back to our hotel.

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