I always loved the episodes of Sex and the City where Carrie fell in love with her city. They were always so perfect, even at times, in their imperfection. I have never felt that kind of love for a city, I mean I have felt nostalgic and warm in London at Christmas, I have felt hip and blond in LA, I have felt edgy and interesting at a book reading in San Francisco, but I […] View full post »
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Hot, busy and full of traffic, if there’s anything I need, you have it, Fruit of all shapes and sizes with sticks of meat nestled beside it, Chai Yen is oh so yummy and for fifty cents it’s in my tummy, Makeup, hats and belts galore walking here is never a bore, The kids had dance class this morning at Couper’s little preschool (yes, please take a quick moment to reflect on there being a dance class in Siem Reap, Cambodia; when we moved here there wasn’t even a mini mart!) Anyway, my mom who is visiting for the week, and I went to pick up the kiddos and take them to lunch. Because it was an ‘all about the kids’ day and because I was curious, […] View full post » Yesterday Brandon and I were working in the front room while one of our volunteers was doing a conversation class with one of our students. I was eavesdropping because the questions she was asking were interesting…”who is your hero?” “if you could meet anyone who would it be?”, etc. Each time the student answered I completely understood. “My hero the susses.” Oh, I thought, his hero is someone with success. It took the volunteer a […] View full post » First I have to apologize, I am supposed to have my finger on the pulse, but this little gem of a hotel managed to allude me for over a year! However last Monday night Brandon and I had a nice little rendezvous as we checked it out. First things first, it is located in a pretty out of the way place which is why I think I had never noticed it in my wanderings. It […] View full post » http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29228359/ This article appeared this week on MSNBC and there have been others in the Wall Street Journal and across the US. The interesting thing is that here in Cambodia no one seems to know and if they do, they don’t seem to care too much. Now granted I’m in Siem Reap and the trial is happening in Phnom Penh, but still, this isn’t OJ, no one is glued to Court TV, in fact up […] View full post » Working for an international travel company and having everyday correspondence with people from all around the world, it can often be easy to forget just how far apart we really are. Our US office is based in Truckee, California a charming town near Lake Tahoe. Today is clear, 27 degrees (f) with an expected 12 inches of snowfall overnight. I just Googled the temperature in Siem Reap, Cambodia and found out it was 95 degrees […] View full post » I wanted to share a recent letter I sent out to the Journeys Within Our Community donors about our scholarship program here in Cambodia. This letter is feeling very relevant because yesterday we had an all-student meeting in Cambodia, almost all of our students came together at JWOC to meet our new directors, Camilla and Andrew, and to have a great seminar about email writing put together by volunteers. It was an amazing afternoon and […] View full post » Couper and I took the boat from Phnom Penh back to Siem Reap this weekend and while I generally think being 2-years-old looks frustrating, this was one time I was jealous of his time in life. We boarded the boat at 730am at the Phnom Penh Pier…for me this was ridiculously early, for my little friend who is up at 6am without fail, this was a fun outing. Walking down to the boat on the […] View full post » Friends Restaurant in Phnom Penh has been on our itineraries since we started 6 years ago and it, and thankfully us, are still going strong. We ate at Friends this weekend and here are the top five things I love most about it: The raspberry vanilla smoothie. Couper drank all of mine so I had to get another one, he drank a lot of that one too, he has good taste. That your water […] View full post » |
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