Out of Red Zone, faded back to Orange, maybe over 11k all up in SR now, since 9th March

 So at the end of last week our village finished in Red and went back to being Orange. We are allowed to leave the house now, and technically it means we can go food shopping a few times a week. However, we can't actually access any food shops as the surrounding villages are still in Red. And the market isn't closed, but it isn't open either.

Internet is still unstable. Can't do much at day, no school, streaming, calls etc. We can download and upload at night. And using message apps seems ok as the message just sits there until it can send.

I can't access the news so I don't know today's SR tally.

It felt surreal on Saturday to hear a loudspeaker from outside telling us to stay in our houses. We already knew we were in Red Zone so it wasn't a surprise but still weird. Also, they said they were bringing us some covid medicine 

Our internet is still really patchy, since Thursday. Going in and out all day, can't use it for school or calls. It's ok for sending messages as the messages just sit there until it comes back on.

It's quite a weird feeling- we have to stay in our house as we are in Red Zone, and we have hardly any internet, so it's hard to know what is going on out there.

Most people around us earn and shop each day, so Red Zone means they are hungry. Luckily it's rainy season so there are leaves and fish, snails, crabs, etc around. It was much harder when we had a similar lockdown in the hot season. I saw a lady digging for a crab back then, she had to dig down a long way just to get one crab. In contrast to yesterday, there were groups of children running around looking for snails. 

Soeun and his sister have been growing veggies in our yard, and we usually eat them for our main meal each day so it's not so hard for us. We also have supermarket food stored in the fridge and in cans which is something others don't have. Also we had a warning before this started so Soeun was able to get two bags of rice, enough for us and to share. 

We have friends in hospital this week, hopefully, they can get out and get back home despite lockdown. 

In some ways it is a normal week for us. The children and I just keep doing school each morning, We can't use our online lessons, but we have plenty of other things to do. Soeun and the boy camping out the back are fixing the floor of the outdoor meeting room. 

So in some ways this week feels surreal and chaotic and in other ways it feels normal. 

Red Zone

 T'was the day before Red Zone 

And all through Siem Reap

People were panic shopping

Even though it wasn't cheap

So not only did they find cases at our market yesterday, they found over 400 in the province. Its been only 80 per day recently.

So a lot of our town is going into Red Zone soon.

5 communes

Our internet has been so patchy today and yesterday. Can't use it for school or Facebook.

At least 8485

So as of the weekend, we are back in Orange zone. I'm not sure what it means but we can't get fresh fruit at the market so there must be some roadblocks. Although I went into town and bought fruit and the supermarket. So we have access to foreign fruit but not local?

I caught a tuk tuk home and on the way the driver picked up his teenage son from the commune medical place. He had just had his second Sino shot! Other teens we know in our village also went for their 2nd shot today too.

We are back into school routine, and I'm easing back into riding after many weeks of tiredness and a sore throat.

I recently wrote a guest post for a blog I've been reading for years. 

You can find it here: Broken Blenders on A Life Overseas.

The boys are working on the meeting area at the back. We've had the roof for awhile and a dirt floor. Now they are starting to put edges so they can make a floor up out of the flooded muddy area.