You jump I jump Jack
9 weeks, 315 bowls of rice, 78 oddly colored soups, 84 mosquito bites, bout of dengue, 63 squats, 15 spiders, and 1,512 hours of sweating later we’ve come to swear in.
Donning the slacks, white button up and a tie, not to mention wearing my Sperry’s for the first time in 2 months. It’s been two of the quickest, longest months of my life here and I gotta say, I really felt like swear in was going to be a much bigger release, a sense of affirmation. However, with a few changes, not to mention the usual fun with any bureaucratic event, many of us are just ready for our time to be sworn in and then the festivities that will follow.
After today, it’s the end of pledge season and making final preparations for our 3 month lock down in our provinces. After a counter part conference where our various Cambodian health center staff, school staff, etc came to discuss our mission here and to work on making the next three months of school, community life, and everything in between as useful as possible. All in all, it was good to have and made me feel like I have some control in this life.
In some ways, today feels like the hours before graduation, that feeling of finality and moving on to the next thing. Add the heat and amount of time we’ll be standing and listening to horrible music, I’d say it was like initiation, but all in all I’m ready to jump and get moving on the next step.
Congrats to all the K4’s for making it this far, and thanks to my family and friends for being there to keep me entertained. Congrats DX for the fall line up.
Be easy
-Matt