Friday, 15 April 2011

My First Cambodian Haircut

In the grounds of the Hotel where we were staying whilst in Kampong Cham I noticed that every few days a hotel employee got out a chair and started cutting workmates hair in the late afternoon. I asked if it was possible to have mine cut- yes no problem-$1.
How could I explain what style I wanted, how much off, over the ears, off the ears etc., we hadn’t covered a trip to the barbers in our language class?

All thoughts irrelevant, I sat down, the hand powered clippers were picked up and off we went or rather off the hair went much to the amusement of the local crowd who were to watch from start to finish.


 After the hair was cut, I had a shoulder massage, shave with a cut throat razor and my nazzle hair trimmed (with a small pair of scissors not the hand clippers).


The finished job was checked in the mirror of the motorbike I had been sat next to.


 A long way from a ‘Julie haircut’ but problem solved for a few weeks.

2 comments:

  1. super smart - that's the standard we've come to expect - any thoughts on where Angela will be having her hair styled?
    Keep the images flowing - it all makes perfect sense.

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  2. Love reading your blog and seeing photos. Keep them coming. Love Deb and Gary xx

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