Tropical Fruit and Syllabic Writing

I am now feeling more settled in Phnom Penh. I went shopping for food, clothes and soap yesterday, which was an interesting experience. Parker and I went to open-air markets to buy fruit, Turkish-style bazaars to buy shirts and trousers, and a Western/Japanese supermarket to buy juice and cereal. The fruit here is delicious, especially this kind (mongkut, I think):

I have also begun to study written Khmer (Cambodian) on my own, starting with consonants:

and moving on to simple sentences:

It's difficult, but very satisfying and I hope to find a language teacher soon.