Wednesday, September 26, 2012

From 30 to 4

This summer I took a trip to Cambodia. We were teaching english in the slums at different schools. While we were there we also had some free time to shop in the markets were there are amazing deals and you had to bargain for the price you wanted. You could get something that would normally be 30 dollars for 4 just by bargaining. Because I was white and obviously American they would always say a higher price then if it was for someone from Cambodia. I would try to get down the price but they would keep saying no and go back up to the higher price. It was difficult to have them lower the price just by my appearance Americans have so much more then them they know you could afford it even if you told them you couldn't. In the end the deals were great I just had to work very hard for them the people running the stands would do almost anything to have you buy the stuff in the first place.

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