 | ⋆ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴘᴏsᴛ ʀᴇᴄᴇɪᴠᴇᴅ ᴀɴ ᴜᴘᴠᴏᴛᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ʀᴇʙʟᴏɢ ⋆ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀᴄᴇ ғᴏʀ sᴏᴜᴛʜᴇᴀsᴛ ᴀsɪᴀɴ ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇɴᴛ ᴏɴ ʜɪᴠᴇ ⋆ sᴜʙsᴄʀɪʙᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀsᴇᴀɴ ʜɪᴠᴇ ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴜɴɪᴛʏ ⋆ ғᴏʟʟᴏᴡ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀsᴇᴀɴ ʜɪᴠᴇ ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴜɴɪᴛʏ ᴠᴏᴛɪɴɢ ᴛʀᴀɪʟ ⋆ ᴅᴇʟᴇɢᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ʟɪɴᴋs 25 ʜᴘ⇾50 ʜᴘ⇾100 ʜᴘ⇾500 ʜᴘ⇾1,000 ʜᴘ |
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appreciate it, as always. Hope things are getting better for you in Florida
At the moment we're still stuck in Kentuckiana. As a family we are depressed but hanging on. We haven't quite hit the 6-month mark where we can return to Cambodia for 6 months without the chance of losing the green cards. However, the Cambodian Embassy in DC is advising green card holders not to leave the country because resident non-citizens are being turned away at airports without reason upon entry.
Also, only earning a combined $600 a month for dual 60-hour work weeks isn't what we expected to earn, nor is it enough for us to afford the vet costs and tickets for us to return to our land where our home has been destroyed. We royally f*cked, I hate to admit. I have been doing my best to be stoic so that my ladies don't understand the gravity of our situation. The other day my wife mentioned that our entire life savings isn't enough to pay for one day of care in the hospital that my stepdad is receiving, and that if we get sick we should just go somewhere and kill ourselves so that it doesn't economically destroy our children's future.
Heartbreaking to see the effects on my family for simply being in the USA for 6 months. Now that we realize we can't go back anytime soon, we are just trying to do the Suriname COVID thing, trying to live day to day while not facing the reality that it could be years before we dig ourselves out of this mess.
Sorry for the rant, just lacking social interaction for far too long. Posting would be great therapy for me now, but I am just overwhelmed with too many things on my plate each day. I think my stepdad is living his last days, so following him to Florida to provide continued car is probably not going to happen.
holy shit dude... this is terrible news. Your property in Cambo is destroyed? How? taken over by locals?
I would offer some advice but man oh man, I have none. I think getting out of USA and heading back to Cambodia is the best move but I would imagine you and the wife are likely thinking more along the lines of what is best for the kids.
I'm sorry to hear that things are bad. I expected them to be less-than-awesome but not this bad.
I have been meaning to post an update, but things keep changing. At this point the town where my daughters studied has been leveled. My village up the road which is also a military outpost, my family being only one of three civilian families allowed to live in the base, is under attack from F-16 strikes. Our military outpost has only a tin roof, so I have offered our unfinished lodge with a reinforced concrete rebar 2nd floor as an alternative outpost if/when our base is destroyed.
Not much information is coming out of the village. The bridge has been bombed and destroyed, so now there is no longer a way for us to go buy produce even if things return to normal some day. Hard to believe the Thai PM got off the phone with my president and them bombed our town and bridge, still doesn't seem real.
I haven't been able to post because we feel so paralyzed. Friends and neighbors are dead, but we don't know the extent yet.