number A: my parents just visited topher and me in our little part of the south east asian world. we met them in thailand and dazzled them with our noodle and curry eating abilities.
and then we actually impressed them (maybe?) with our khmer-speaking ways in cambodia. while here, we visited angkor wat (for the first time!), hung out at a fantastic hotel in phnom penh, introduced our sleepy town to the watts' and spent a night at what might be chris' and mine favorite hotel this side of the national date line.
i'm waiting on my mom's pics before i do a full recap, but it was truly fantastic having them here.
this week, topher and i and jill and other PCVs in our little province are helping out peace corps with the training of trainers- providing advice for dealing with americans fresh off the boat, being guinea pigs during role plays, and generally helping to prepare twelve awesome khmer men and women for that which is pre-service training.
in just over two short weeks, we'll be welcome nearly sixty new trainees to cambodia which just SHOCKS the hell out of me. can i really have been here for a year? is this job, experience, life really half over already?
i am ready to kick pre-service training into high gear though as well. i and three other TEFL volunteers have been working with PC staff for months now preparing sessions and tweaking objectives and drafting information sheets in excitement for eight weeks of technical training so that our mainly-generalist new cambodian trainees can become rock-n-roll teachers!
and those that know me KNOW that there is very little i love more than providing any assistance and wisdom i have for those brave enough to trek down the path that is educating young people, whether it be in urban baltimore or rural cambodia. bring it k6s! woot!
and finally, can we just pause and get real, real, REAL excited for august? when one of my most FAVORITE of people on this EARTH joins chris and i with her glorious husband for a week in cambodia? paige somehow decided that the best way to celebrate completing her bar exam was to fly thirty hours to visit this girl in the hottest place on earth. and she's even foregoing what i've heard are beautiful beaches in thailand for more time with us in the 'bode.
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and that, my friends, is how you write a blog post mainly about things that did happen without providing details and things that are about to happen without any pictures as proof.
alternately, how you write a blog post that reads like a diary entry of a fourteen year old girl.
happy friday!
Well sheeps lady, when you put it that way... ;)
ReplyDeletestupid excited. crazy excited. getting me through the next two weeks excited!