the plan…

Hello Readers,

Blog post have been more frequent due to the available internet. We have been staying in hotels since we arrived, and they all have internet. On Tuesday we enter “real Cambodia” and live with host families and lose our western ties… besides the cell phone I am supposed to always carry, and remember to charge. Email me if you are dying to call me and I can send you the number.

So life so far has been the hottest I have ever experienced and this is only day 2 for me. This morning I woke up and literally just wanted to jump in a cold shower or pool. And its currently 7 pm and I feel the same way dripping with sweat.

Accomplishments: mastered the squatty potty- quite tricky for the ignorant folk, learned the standard greetings and the names of the amazing fruits in Khmer and have successfully ordered breakfast, ate a cricket – yes a whole fried cricket- head and legs and all, figured out how to tell my host family that I can’t eat meat with bones.

Unsuccessful achievements: not sweating profusely always- literally have beads of sweat dripping off my face 24/7, mastering the shower at the hotel- the entire bathroom was covered in water

And a little about what lies in the future… Tomorrow we are headed to the market to pick up some khmer essentials, like the traditional skirt and korma, a chamber pot, and exchanging ATM 20s for useable size money in Cambodian currency. And it is our one day to RELAX!! On Tuesday when we move to the village and begin living with the family, also the 4 hrs of language training a day will begin.

…sorry to end this mid thought but I have become to hot to actually process.

until next time