Yesterday, I rode my bike through a thunderstorm

It was POURING rain last night. I mean POURING. So the obvious thing to do was to bike home in it. Deb and I mounted our bikes, took off our sandals, waved our team goodbye at the restaurant, and hit the puddles. I was drenched within the first 30 seconds. All the locals cheered us on as we biked through calf deep water. YEAH BARRANGS.

 Well, I have less than one week left. AHHHHHHHH. I have been gone from the states for officially a month. And at 3:30pm tomorrow, I will have been in Cambodia for a full month.

 I cant believe I’m on the home stretch. Its been an incredible journey so far.

 Last week, the pre-school and community center were closed so I did “office work.” I got to make “learning resources.” So actually, I got to color and cut and glue and use a laminating machine. It was kind of awesome. And I got to baby sit a little boy. And I got to design an add for out new nail spa. And I got to make an ice-cream cake. HAHAHAHA. Making an ice-cream cake is much more difficult in Cambodia. 1^st difficulty: no ovens (solution: buying an already made cake without frosting on it. Also a difficulty because those are very hard to find). 2^nd problem: its so hot… that ice cream MELTS. 3^rd difficulty: limited kitchenware. But we did it. So it was still a busy week.

 This week, the community center is up and running. WE just built a new playground and the kids LOVED it. Today was the first day we opened it to all the kids and they were all over it. It was so fun. Except, I smell like pee pee and dirty kids because I they are always just all over you and I had to help the real small kids down the slide. And this slide is not your typical graduale slide, it’s a steel shoot that alsmot has a perpendicular angle wih the ground. My arms are very tired. Good things those kids are really small.

 I also just got done teaching English to a group of our older girls. I feel lightheaded. We just started the alphabet today. A. AHHHH. Apple. B. BAAA. Boy. C. CAAAAAA. Cake. Etc. We got to E. English is hard. Why do A and E have to sound so similar? And why does the G sounds have to be all they way in your throat?

Well, back to laminating.

Bye