One day I showed my training host brother, Samon, how to build a simple card tower with a deck of cards I brought from America. I didn't know if he got anything out of it at the time. A couple days later I was reading outside, and he came and...
When I first got to my training site in Cambodia, my family was still finishing planting rice in the fields behind their house. I was interested to see that the animals weren't raised for food, but were kept to work in the fields during the...
When we arrived in our training village in Cambodia, we met some of the local officials and were blessed by two monks. The older monk spent much time talking to the trainees about budhism while we were waiting for people to arrive. He also answered...
Water in Cambodia is not a sparse commodity, at least during the rainy season. My host family used the pool of water in their back yard to clean clothes and dishes, as well as jump into when they were hot after playing volleyball. Rain in Cambodia...
At the teacher training session for the k5 trainees in Cambodia, a class full of mostly college English students listen to suggestions by Peace Corps trainees on how they might better their English teaching in the classroom.