Final post

The soft glow of sunlight passing the dusty window dances on my eyelids. I wake from a night of restful sleep. I grasp at the perfect morning hours when sounds of life renewing… Continue reading →

A visit to the zoo (pictures)

Here are some photos of a recent trip I took with fifteen students and two coteachers. It was a fantastic day trip to Phnom Ta Mao in Takeo province. We were partnered with… Continue reading →

Old entries…

Beep Beep Beeeeeeeep The generic ringtone to all lower-class cellphones sounds at 6:03 in the morning and is the first sound I hear. I sleep through countless rooster crows, grinds of morning metal… Continue reading →

By the numbers – Peace Corps Cambodia K6 volunteers

Back in my college football days, there was a column after every game called By the numbers. It was a unique way to represent the game and quantified a lot of the qualitative… Continue reading →

Release, absorb

We all have ideas of what something is, what some place is, or what someone is. Then new information, stimuli, and experiences will challenges previous understandings of being. Sometimes these new things are… Continue reading →

K6

Recently, I spent a handful of days with the entirety of the in-country K6 volunteers, third-year PCVLS, and Peace Corps staff. It was the COS conference and the first time that all of… Continue reading →

My return

Howls of dogs, hums of my fan and I am right back in it. There was a short trip that brought forth epic amounts of good things in various forms: water on tap,… Continue reading →

A quick update

Hello! There have been no recent postings since I have been busy doing a bit of traveling in Cambodia and also in Malaysia. I will be hopefully updating the blog with some more… Continue reading →

Heat

Cambodia’s capital city, Phnom Penh, lies at a lovely latitude of 11.5 degrees North, which places it firmly between the tropics (other countries along the 11th parallel: Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Burkina Faso, Somalia,and… Continue reading →

On Responsibility

I have been writing blog after blog and there has just been no major progress. I type through a couple of paragraphs with a decent beginning and add entertaining quips about life and… Continue reading →