Eat Play
Cambodia’s strong snack-game and the funny ways the food is delivered to your door. Continue reading Eat Play
Tag: K10
The Giving Gourd – Year 1
Thanksgiving the Peace Corps Cambodia way. Continue reading The Giving Gourd – Year 1
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
Homestay: The Early Days
Dear Grampa, this will be home for awhile. There is a mountain and sometimes an elephant. Continue reading Homestay: The Early Days
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
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 3
We continue to play hard and work harder while our families keep us fortified in rice and patience with our juvenile Khmer. This post feels heavy on the American faces, heavier than I would like. But as I have mentioned before, I’m still getting to know my community and want to hold off on … Continue reading K10 PST: Week 3
Sunday: A Day for The Rest
Once a week, we come up for air and reconnect with ourselves and each other. Continue reading Sunday: A Day for The Rest
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
San Fran & Staging
The Peace Corps train is pulling out of the station. All aboard the Cambodia K10 Express. Continue reading San Fran & Staging
vim, vigor, vinegar 