Finally! My turn to get Sinopharm part 1

The government is offering Sinopharm free to whoever is willing and able to get it in our town! 

(But only between July 10-23rd. And only if you can navigate the ever changing registration process, and brave a day out in the sun with 100s of people.)

I had an exciting day- leaving home before 7am to get to the hospital early. 

Got to see old friends, met some other people and saw how the road work is going. When else do I see 2000 expats all in one place during a pandemic?

I hardly go into town these days, we can get most food from our local market, and we both work at home. And Covid-19, so not a good time for non essential trips.

Central Market trees gone! I hardly recognise the street. Like someone has had their head shaved.

Most people in town had their jab in their commune spread out over the 2 weeks. But foreigners were asked to rego through City Hall and all get it done at the hospital beginning at 8am today.

I got there just after 7am. It was already packed.

Lined up to fill in a form.

Lined up again to get a number.

But at 9am they said they had already given out all of the 300 numbers for the morning. We were told to leave and come back at 1pm.

But there were 100s of us and we had already waited so long, no one wanted to leave their place in the line. 

An hour later they handed out a few more numbers. I got 322. Sat down in the shade with my bag of snacks and an Aussie I met in the que. He came to Siem Reap for a 2 week holiday early last year....

Our numbers got called out around 11.15 and we went to the next building. A lady wrote down our details in a notebook, they looked at our forms. Vaccinated us, took a photo and sent us off.

Soeun and his sister already had theirs done a few days ago at our commune's temple. 

In 3 weeks time we will get our second jab. (It was only about a week ago they changed from 2 to 3 weeks between jabs.)

Hope a virus outbreak didn't start today, or we may be seeing each other back at the hospital sooner than the planned 3 weeks...