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<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 06:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
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                    <title>A Year Gone By and Good Bye</title>
                    <description>Im just getting back from three weeks of home leave spending time with family and friends in Houston Florida and New Orleans. I arrived back in Phnom Penh on exactly the day I left the U.S. a year ago. Time is such a strange concept. We divide time into these random parts that on the surface appear to be equal. There are 60 minutes in every hour and 24 hours in every day but an hour spent list</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Phnom-Penh/blog-785153.html</link>
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                    <title>To be a teacher is to watch a soul develop</title>
                    <description>The class is Critical Thinking. The assignment was to take a problem or a situation in your life something that is important to you and use the skills you have learned in critical thinking to arrive at a judgment or conclusion. Some students wrote about getting married some wrote about choosing a major or starting a business. Generally speaking I didn39t treat this as a spelling and grammar</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-776688.html</link>
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                    <title>Every Day a New Story</title>
                    <description>One of my students just left my office. She39s had to miss her midterm exam last week because of work. This isn39t uncommon. She39s an unusually bright young girl with an intense face and a stout but not overweight frame. She39s curious and an eager learner who always sits in the front row and she goes by the name Kimmy which is short for Ong Kimheang. It39s unusual for Khmer peo</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Phnom-Penh/blog-771837.html</link>
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                    <title>After the Party</title>
                    <description>Eight months and counting.  There are a lot of ways to think about eight months which can either make it sound like a second or an eternity and how it really feels to me depends on the day.  On one hand eight months is about how long it takes to create a new human life.  Had I been pregnant when I left Houston I would be delivering just about now.  Of course had I been pregnant I would also have </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Phnom-Penh/blog-765620.html</link>
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                    <title>Happy Holiday</title>
                    <description>I39m not sure where to start. So much has happened since my last blog but what spurred me to action is I just received our holiday schedule for 2013. You sort of have to love a country that values work life balance so much that they have 35 national holidays. Earlier I blogged about the plight of the textile workers only making 100month but when you figure in all the holidays their lot impro</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Phnom-Penh/blog-759594.html</link>
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                    <title>Treading Water</title>
                    <description>Im five days away from the six month mark in Asia. One friend told me early on the six month mark is the hardest in terms of dealing with culture shock because what was once enchanting and interesting just becomes plain old annoying. You can tolerate anything as long as you know how long it will last. This is what bothers me most about the concept of eternity. Still losing enchantment doesn</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/North/Siem-Reap/blog-752794.html</link>
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                    <title>I am blessed really.</title>
                    <description>I39m past the five month mark now.  The pangs of culture shock come less frequently and I39m virtually nonreactive to rats underfed listless children and the morning bell followed by a symphony of dogs barking every morning at sunrise coming from the pagoda behind my flat.  Right now is a 15 holiday called Pchum Ben.  Everyone must return to their home province to go to temple and make off</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Phnom-Penh/blog-748873.html</link>
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                    <title>Feast or Famine</title>
                    <description>A month or so ago I wasnt blogging much because I just didnt feel I had anything new to share or words of wisdom that might be worth reading.  The last three weeks I didnt blog because I frankly couldnt find any extra time to make it happen even though I had plenty to say and lots of things are happening.  My three critical thinking classes are keeping me very busy.  I have a total of </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Kampot/blog-746307.html</link>
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                    <title>Back to School</title>
                    <description>My season of boredom is about to come to a close.  Summer session started yesterday and Ive been assigned three classes in Critical Thinking.  Never mind that I am not a philosophy major nor have I ever had a single class in critical thinking and I left my friends family and comfortable home in Houston which displays not a shred of critical thinking skills.  Lets face it Im a warm body</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Phnom-Penh/blog-740020.html</link>
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                    <title>Tim's Search for Meaning</title>
                    <description>Last week was flat out tough.  You don39t do something like this to sit around and wait for something to happen yet that39s how I felt all week.  All of the work designing the Master39s and Ph.D. programs was pretty much finished and awaiting approval from the Ministry of Education.  Yes the government must approve new academic programs even those of a private university.  And of course</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Phnom-Penh/blog-736856.html</link>
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                    <title>Caution  Political Commentary Enclosed</title>
                    <description>I know this post is long overdue but it isnt because I havent tried. Twice now I have written substantial posts filled with the meatiest most insightful intellect coming out of Southeast Asia and somehow about half way through the post I hit a key and..suddenly Im staring at a blank screen. Possibly this was a sign they werent nearly as meaty and insightful as I was thinkin</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Phnom-Penh/blog-734817.html</link>
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                    <title>Bangkok Istanbul and Barcelona</title>
                    <description>The past week has been lots of travel.  I should have kept up on the blog better but the time flew by really fast.  I feel like I was just starting to really settle in to Phnom Penh.  I had sort of found a rhythm to the day and the weeks.  I wondered if going to Europe would make me miss home more and set me back in terms of culture shock.  I had overnight stays both directions in Bangkok.  I grow</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/La-Rambla/blog-727950.html</link>
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                    <title>Printed Correction</title>
                    <description>I thought I better issue a couple of corrections to my previous blog now that I39m reading Never Fall Down. The lead character in the novel is Arn. For some reason I thought Patricia McCormick had changed his name in the book. Also Arn grew up in Battambang the second largest city in Cambodia not Phnom Penh. The book says his father didn39t die at the hands of the Khmer Rouge but bef</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Phnom-Penh/blog-724410.html</link>
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                    <title>Meeting The Flute Player</title>
                    <description>Arn ChornPond is a complex person. Arn is a flute player an orphan of war a brilliant musician a storey teller a graduate of Brown University a son of an opera singer and an accomplice to countless murders. These are just a few of the people living inside Arn39s skin. In the empty moments of the night Arn hears two very different sounds. He hears the cries of the dying the children he wa</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Phnom-Penh/blog-723940.html</link>
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                    <title>Everyday Heroes</title>
                    <description>On August 14 1971 Philip Zimbardo a young Stanford University psychologist turned the basement of the psychology building into a prison. Zimbardo was seeking to better understand the development of norms and the effects of roles labels and social expectations in a simulated prison environment. He recruited 24 young white middle class male students to play the roles of prison guards and prison</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Phnom-Penh/blog-722455.html</link>
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                    <title>Election Weekend</title>
                    <description>I39m probably a little past due for a post but wanted to get elections behind me.  No not Romney v. Obama but communal elections that were held yesterday across the country.  It was a most interesting time to be here.  The Prime Minister Hun Sen declared a four day holiday from Friday until today.  People have to return to their home province in order to vote.  Phnom Penh largely cleared out</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Phnom-Penh/blog-721261.html</link>
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                    <title>Top 10 Things I'm Loving about Phnom Penh Cambodia</title>
                    <description>10 The cost of living. Anyplace you can buy a meal for 3 rates in my book.9 Playing Frogger with the cars and scooters when crossing a major street at rush hour.8 Rarely hearing Barack Obama39s name.7 Never hearing Mit Romney39s name.6 Exercise dance parties on the mall every night by the Independence Monument I39ll attempt to get some pics of this.5 The kidsunbelievably beauti</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Phnom-Penh/blog-720174.html</link>
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                    <title>Movin' In</title>
                    <description>Settle in to the universityCheckGet a bank accountCheck although it has a 0 balance.  I tried to deposit a check from the US and they said it would take up to 6 weeks to clear.  Living on the ATM so far.Get a local phone numberCheckFind a place to liveCheckMove InMission Accomplished.  Check.  Although I still have two boxes in Bangkok and a couple of other boxes at Dr. Kol39s Unive</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Phnom-Penh/blog-719199.html</link>
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                    <title>Inspiration</title>
                    <description>I know I promised photos of the new place but it39s been a struggle to get moved in.  We are still negotiating details.  I may just walk by later and snap a few pics to post but there is still so much more to report.So I got my university I.D.  I know you39re thinking just as I was big deal.  I had a meeting yesterday with Susan my partner in crime to develop the Master39s degree prog</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Phnom-Penh/blog-719024.html</link>
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                    <title>Bangkok and Authaya pics</title>
                    <description>Saturday was spent in the old capitol of Siam about 90 minutes outside Bangkok.  The picture was taken of a temple in the huge temple complex of the city. Sunday was around town.  The picture taken make me wonder who could possibly keep track of all the wired connections.  If something did fail where would you start to fix it  Oh yeah I guess you just run a new cable duh.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/blog-716677.html</link>
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