Catching UP

I finished up helping out at the JPA school which turned out pretty well. While I’m glad to be done, I will miss the little munchkins; regardless of their teachers ability to control how quiet they were during class time. They still were pretty darn cute. I took a week off (mostly to catch up on all the laundry I hadn’t had time to do) – and also just to transition into the long vacation mode of summer and figure out how I’m going to approach the upcoming months. I’m back in gear with the teachers as we’ve started our English for Teachers course again, this time meeting 5 days a week. Then I’ve also started taking sewing lessons (see entry: Word of the Day: s’mau). Then last week I sort of got into a landscaping mode. Besides learning that no one seems to sell flower seeds anywhere, I was able to drop more money into purchasing plants and potted flowers from the local plant nursery in town than I had intended to. Oops. Oh well our patio area does look really nice now all decorated w/ flowers). But I guess I will wait before I go on my next plant and flower spending spree.

As for Will, besides his tree-planting project, he has been spending a fair amount of time practicing the fundamentals of basketball with the high-school team. We’re in the midst of planning an itinerary for our upcoming vacation to Malaysia which we’re taking in September. It’s sort of a late anniversary vacation, right before school starts AND also during the Pchum Ben holiday in Cambodia (which usually consists of all of the Pagodas blasting really loud ceremonial music starting at 4am in the morning) – and I don’t know if I’ve mentioned that we live 50m away from a Pagoda. So we purposely planned on being out of the country at that time. Other than that not too much new to report. We’re definitely in the rainy season, and well I’ve already written about how much we like the rain here. Temperatures are so much more tolerable.

I guess that’s all for now until the next interesting thing comes our way to write about. We hope everyone’s well back home…..
over and out.