I was reading some re entry stuff, and it suggested when you get back to your country and you a missing the country you came from, try enjoying the things that you missed from your own country while you were out of it. SO here is a list of somethings I've missed over the last few years, so I can remember this when I'm missing cambodia.

- milk, the kind that you need to keep in the fridge, you can get it here but its expensive
-bread, you can also get here, but the kind of bread that is normal to me is the expensive foreign kind

If fact food in general. The sort of food I think is normal tends to be the sort of food that you need to buy in a supermarket rather than the market. Everyday I eat dinner and breakfast with the Khmer students, and I like some of it. But sometimes I just want to eat something normal, but because it cost more I think of it as something I should have as a treat.

Like to day for lunch I had minced beef and tomato sauce with spaghetti and veggies. Spag bol was one of the first meal I learnt to cook, and one I continued to cook when I left home. Its easy, and mince is a cheap meat to buy in Australia.

But here, they don't mince meat at the market, so I either need to get it from the supermarket or do it myself with a cleaver. Today I spent the morning pounding 1/4 kg of beef until it was minced!

I would have like to have cheese with the meal, but that would require a trip to the supermarket. Cheese is about 10 USD  for a kg, twice the price of beef.

So my cheap easy comfort meal becomes not so cheap or easy here.

Also, as many expats comment when they first get here- its hard to go for a walk. I miss footpaths and parks. And trains and buses too.

And it will be nice to go to church in English with my husband. A new thing that may take some time to get used to but I'm really looking fwd to it.

And being able to communicate with people. My English language skills are much better than my Khmer ones, along with knowing cues that go with language and relating.