25 Days of Christmas
There’s few things I enjoy more than the days leading up to Christmas. With 25 days to go until the big day, I woke up this morning, ripped the paper off the calendar and said hello to one of my favorite months of the year. Granted, this year there will be very little around me to signify that it is the month of December (it’s more like a perpetual August). But I think a Christmas tree made of bamboo and palm leaves, plus some local decorations should be a good adaptation to the holiday spirit. The Christmas music is playing, the nutmeg has been bought, and I’m planning on making this one hell of a Christmas in Koh Kong.
Came back to site after a week of training and travel up in Battambang, a Northwestern province with the rest of the 50 some odd K4 volunteers. It’s funny how after two months of us all wishing we could see each other sooner that we realized by the end of it we wanted nothing more than to come back to our sites and get back to something less stressful. Definitely wasn’t expected, but I think many of us appreciate our sites a bit more after the amount of travel, sessions, and all the rest that went with it. Spent Thanksgiving day in Phnom Penh with a few friends with more beer than food, and it was definitely a more memorable Thanksgiving. Friday was spent traveling and finished off with a 4 turkey dinner prepared by the Battambang volunteers for around 60 of us. Have to say, it was one of the better thanksgiving meals I’ve had in the past 3 years away from home.
It only seems like we’re alone in this, but training helps remind us we have 50 other people going through the same trials and tribulations as us, even if we don’t see them for months at a time. Christmas this year will be spent in Koh Kong town, with bbq’s, boat rides, a pool, good food, friends, and an island or two. So bring on that holiday spirit, cause December is here.
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