McMuffins, Malls and Macchiatos
July marked the one year of being in Cambodia. It has been one of the more interesting years I’ve had in my life. There had been just as many downs as ups and adjusting to life here has taken time. However, even at my most unhappy and exasperated, I still felt happier and more alive than I had in previous years. My time in Cambodia has been good to me, really good. Granted, there’s been a good amount of me being sick and a few pounds of sweat along the way.
However, even as much as I enjoy my time here in the Kingdom of Wonder, I was feeling a bit left out of the seemingly large exodus of Peace Corps volunteers visiting the homeland over the summer. That, plus the final Harry Potter IMAX experience, I settled on paying homage to Bangkok to get my fill of American preservatives, malls and movies.
Granted, I never saw anything of Bangkok aside from the malls and movie theatres, I hear it’s a great town.
As for updates? Things at BCDO (BotumSakor Community Development Organization) are moving ahead faster and faster. In the past month, a playground was put in (made from found materials), the press for the briquettes was put together and someone was nice enough to donate a computer and printer for the admin work.
On the textbook front, we’re still waiting for the government to allocate funds for us to move forward on our project to redo the national english language curriculum for Cambodia. I’m excited to be part of this huge responsibility and am looking forward to that next step…once it comes.
The new group of volunteers are here and are in the midst of PST. I’ll be heading down to Takeo in the next week for training and then it’s birthday week.
Busy month and a good one at that.
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