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Published: January 17th 2007
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Love cards
Teachers in Cambodia don't get paid enough to live and support their family, so they have to charge their students a daily fee. Here the students are making postcards which will be sent to the guesthouses in Siem Reap and hopefully reap some extra funds to supplement the teacher's pathetic salary. So it's been about a month since i have typed in this blog space, a simple recap.....found out i was off school on Dec. 18, bought a ticket on dec. 19, flew home on dec. 21, celebrated the ahrens' family christmas on dec. 22 (also know as watching meredith open presents!) did nothing but watch american's next top model marathons from dec. 24- jan. 4 (with a quick new year's eve stop with my brother and his daddy and me club members, who successful balance quieting a crying child in one hand while making a black russian with the other.....simply amazing) a quick jump up to chicago for good food, friends and a stop over at my former school on jan.5- jan.8. then it was 3 day trip back to China.....2 days in china before a flight to bangkok. Which was quickly followed by a 14 hours of travel from bangkok to siem reap in Cambodia. And that's where you find me now.......
There is so much to say about Cambodia....this first week, I have traveled here by myself as i wait for some friends to meet up with me, instead of just wandering around aimlessly and looking for
the road to cambodia
is long, bumpy and unpaved. it is believed that a certain airline owns this road and resfuses to pave it so that people fly instead of drive. IT was the worst road i have ever driven on. any easy excuse to fit in, i joined a volunteer group, globalteer, for one week. It has only been 3 days, but already I have seen, heard, and felt more about this one part of this one town in this one country than i know what to do with. I have meet some amazing people trying their hardest to help others do just the basices: eat, drink, and be educated.
It is too hot in this internet cafe to write more, but I hope you enjoy some of the pictures.....I'm hoping if i stay long enough in cambodia angelina and brad might want to adopt me, too......stay tuned (mom, you might need to fess up and say that you DID hit me with the wooden spoon)
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Glad to see the pictures. The children all have a smile on their face....who could ask for more?! Maybe the know how famous you are?! And if you want to be adopted, you will have to do better than the phantom "wooden spoon".