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Surprise School
Posted on November 19, 2016November 20, 2016

Surprise School

You have a re-occurring nightmare in which your hands are dry with chalk, you’re dressed in traditional Khmer clothing, and when you spin around you face a hall of writhing school kids shouting at you in a foreign language. Except this nightmare is your job. Continue reading Surprise School

K10 PST: Week 6
Posted on September 4, 2016October 8, 2016

K10 PST: Week 6

The Khmer people have developed a term, “baksbat,” which loosely translates as “broken courage.” Continue reading K10 PST: Week 6

K10 PST: Week 5
Posted on August 28, 2016August 30, 2016

K10 PST: Week 5

The day was an exhibition of ordinary people harming ordinary people – the most quotidian and pure of all nightmares. Continue reading K10 PST: Week 5

K10 PST: Week 2
Posted on August 6, 2016August 9, 2016

K10 PST: Week 2

Coining and deceased young husbands. Morning glory soup and pumpkin porridge.

We find full Khmer sentences spilling from our lips and know where all our neighborhood aunties live along the road. Most children understand us… This might just work. Continue reading K10 PST: Week 2

K10 PST: Week 1
Posted on July 31, 2016August 7, 2016

K10 PST: Week 1

This is bootcamp, y’all. Peace Corps Bootcamp. If we can make it though Pre-Service Training, we’ll be the real deal. Good thing Cambodia is beautiful and the people have been kind. Continue reading K10 PST: Week 1

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MRW when I sit down for the funeral dinner everyone at the table asks where I was when THEIR loved one died. . . . When is this your reaction? #howiseepc #peacecorps #pck10 #peacecorpscambodia #funeral #cambodianparty
Happy birthday to this magnificent woman and friend, shown here being coy with a street pizza before we destroyed it (w/ ketchup, but you knew that). May this year keep you well-supplied in pizza and Office memes, Mikah, Happy birthday, love!
Just because you've been known as Gkonn Jruuk ("Piglet") your whole life doesn't mean you can't one day decide to get clean, mannn. . . . . Piglet is the (almost) three-year old son of one of my coworkers. He was just a curmudgeonly butterball when I arrived and now he's my insistent little shadow. Months of hand-washing histrionics and fragrant soaps have successfully made this guy obsessed with washing his grubby little paws. #rubbadubdub #howiseepc #pck10 #peacecorpscambodia #WASH #cleanhandssavelives #soap
"Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction... Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work." - H. Thoreau in Walden. . . . . Counterpart and superhero Vuth secures the upper netting of the community garden he's built in his dreams a thousand times over these past 20 years. You could call him particular about the details. #counterpartchronicles #howiseepc #pck10 #peacecorps #communitygarden #organic #spagrant #nutrition #khmergarden #hospitalgarden
That time my tutor and I had a girls' weekend in Phnom Penh and I agonized about having to babysit her as if she isn't a grown woman who can master both playing and swimming in a pool for the first time despite being so far out of her element I might as well have dragged her to the moon. #Leakhanaismyhero #whatababe #weoutthevillage #billabonghostel #phnompenh #howiseepc #peacecorps #pck10 #peacecorpscambodia
When you want your immaculate wedding to be the final word in weddings for the village until the end of your days so you do your best to ensure the rest of us stay single for life #throwitontheroof 💐👸🏻 . . . . #bouquettoss #damnokay #ididntwantitanyway #khmerwedding #howiseepc #peacecorpscambodia #peacecorps #weddingseason #wedding
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