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Sunset over Phnom Penh (Cambodia) - Cambridge Medical Elective #06

2017-08-08 · Vlog or day in the life · Ali, Ben · recording, 3:04 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Other · mode: Reflection and life update

On their last afternoon in Phnom Penh, ending the medical part of the 2017 elective, Ali and Ben look back on the Children's Surgical Centre, the friendly people and the relaxed hospital schedule, watch the sunset and set off next for Battambang and Vietnam.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Looking back on Phnom Penh by the riverside

  • ★★ Ben's favourite part of their time in Phnom Penh was the people: everybody at the Children's Surgical Centre was lovely, like a big family he was glad to belong to for the best part of a month or two. — 00:00:00 · Children's Surgical Centre, Phnom Penh
  • ★★ Ali enjoyed how relaxed the elective in Phnom Penh was: they could go into the hospital whenever they wanted, which made it a semi-working holiday. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Ali finds the people of Phnom Penh awesome: tuk-tuk drivers and restaurant staff all want to help, and do their best even without English. — 00:00:29 · Phnom Penh
  • ★★ Among the operations on the elective, drilling a burr hole into a skull was a good experience that Ali expects never to have again. (hedged) — 00:00:52
  • ★★ Looking back, Ali is very glad they chose Phnom Penh for the elective because it is vibrant, chaotic and very different from the UK, rather than somewhere more developed such as Australia or America. — 00:00:52 · Phnom Penh, United Kingdom

00:01:19 — The sunset over Phnom Penh

00:02:21 — Night market, a would-be YouTuber, and the trip ahead; sign-off

  • ★★ At the Phnom Penh night market, a stranger who saw Ali's camera rig asked if he was a YouTuber; she is trying to start her own channel and asked him for tips, which excited him. — 00:02:21
  • ★★ The next morning (9 August 2017) a taxi to Battambang begins Ali's three-week trip around the rest of Cambodia and Vietnam, which his vlogs will follow. — 00:02:21 · Battambang, Cambodia, Vietnam

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Mentioned

Central: Phnom Penh

Also: Battambang · Ben · Cambodia · Children's Surgical Centre · United Kingdom · Vietnam

Only in the description or credits: Sony A6000 · Tascam DR-05

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