We flew into Phenom Penn, and our driver took me to a grocery store to stock up!!! There is no grocery store in Kampong Thom. This province is about a three hour drive from Phenom Penn. So it is waaaaaayyyyyyy out in the countryside. The local market has fruits, vegetables, and meats for sale. The market is quite an eye opening experience........it's not easy for me to shop there. Sometimes it is difficult to even find TOILET PAPER! WHY??? This is a third world country in Asia! It's amazing that as Americans we don't realize what "luxuries" we have that we take for granted!! In America, we really do HAVE IT ALL!!

We have a cook that will cook our dinners for us while in Cambodia, for $25 a week~~you can't beat that!!

MISSION TRIP

My girls and I will live in Kampong Thom, Cambodia for ONE MONTH!! This is a dream come true for me....to live the life of the Khmer people and imerse myself in their culuture. I will be working at a school every day teaching and training teachers. My top priority on this visit is to implement a science curriculum. PE and Baby Girl will attend school where I am teaching. I brought my wonderful baby jogger double stroller with me so I could push the girls to school to and from school. This makes life a little easier, as I don't have to worry about them walking along the busy streets, dodging orange clay mudholes (it's rainy season here~~so lots of standing water).

I have been sweating uncontrollably since we arrived 2 days ago!! There is no air at the school, or at Shelter of Love (a center for children who either have no parents or parents who can not take care of them). My face is literally dripping and it feels as if someone is pouring water down my back.........EEEEEEKKKKKKKK!!! I bet I smell good too~~ha, ha!!!

NEW SCHOOL YEAR, 2011-2012!!

PE started school on August 15, 2011. She is going to the same school where she was last year, EtonHouse International School. PE is in FIRST GRADE!!!!! I can hardly believe it!!!! She has an awesome teacher this year from South Africa. She is excited about this school year, and has already made new friends!

HELLO AGAIN!!!!!

Sorry EVERYONE for not keeping up with my blog!!!! I have not blogged in almost TWO YEARS!!!!! I got really busy in Singapore with various organizations and activities and made AWESOME friends, so that left me no time for blogging!!! I will try now to keep things updated. It makes it so much easier for me to do it this way rather than sending lots of different emails to everyone!!!! So, as of today, Monday, August 22, I will try to blog on a regular basis!!!

Visitors: ChiChi and TaTi

Our good friends, ChiChi and TaTi, came to visit in September. Our family enjoyed their visit so much and we all had a great time and made lots of good memories together! The girls loved it~ PE enjoyed ChiChi and TaTi walking her to school and picking her up from school daily. In the afternoons, PE and ChiChi played school, wrote plays, and performed puppet shows (PE is holding up a prop from behind the black chair). (And Baby Girl was constantly trying to get in all of the action!) Baby Girl enjoyed brushing TaTi's hair (see the orange rake in the picture) with a play plastic hand rake and loved listening to him read stories!!

Visitors: Orchard Road

We took a walk down Orchard Road so ChiChi and TaTi could get the feel of the big city of Singapore. Mall after mall after mall line Orchard Road with all the big designer names and tv screens playing movies and tv shows shine on several of the mall facades. There was lots to see: the wide sidewalks, variety of cultures and ethnic groups, tons of traffic. Our visitors eagerly took in all the sights and smells of Singapore!

Visitors: Night Out on the Town

One night we went out to the famous Raffles Hotel and then to Halia, one of our favorite restaurants located right in the middle of the lush greenery of the Botanical Gardens. We had a special table reserved for the evening, and the food and wine were divine.