The past few months in photos

A village home

Wedding food, many courses which are shared among the guests at the table which are you sat with randomly

The bride and groom had photos taken and displayed at the reception

The map is making progress but the students have little free time and the school is about 4 miles from my house.

me with some fellow guests. The weddings usually always take place at the home of the bride, or on occasion, the groom.

The wedding party. There is a superstition that if the bride has a bridesmaid whose father has passed away, that she may lose her husband early too. So all bridesmaids must have a living father.

Groom waiting for the bride to come down the aisle.

strike a pose

October / November in Pictures

Rice Harvest time 

                                                                  helping to carry baskets of rice (on our heads) with a friends family

                                                                          The hay left over from harvesting the rice. They will sell the hay to someone who has cows

birthday gift from my host sister, a pair of earrings.

 

My host mom cooking our lunch. She cooks all of our meals here with fire. This outfit is her usual attire. Most village women wear similar clothing

Host sister getting Coined, a traditional healing method when someone is sick or in pain. They use a coin and rub Icy hot/ bengay -OUCH.

 She had a fever, this will help cure her?

bike ride near a rubber tree plantation

some local kids at a celebration  for Water Festival. The little girl in white wouldn't let go of my hand the whole night. She sure could dance !

Our new kittens

Mens Volleyball tournement at a Christian school near by

The mens volleyball tournement.

Kids playing Twister, I got it at a garage sale while in Denver

The volleyball champs of the Womens Tournament !  I won a bright yellow button down shirt !

Some kids played a health board game I made. If you drink unboiled water you have to go back to the health center,or if you use a mosquito net you can jump ahead.  Its similar to that game, Chutes and Ladders

 One of the gas stations and convenience store my village

Typical truck where they haul people on top - Dangerous !

Cheers ! Sally and Chris my two good friends while at the beach celebrating my birthday

Some other volunteers and I for my birthday at the beach

monks visit the beach too

girl selling bracelets started playing with my hair- OUCH!

Beautiful beach in Cambodia  (Otres Beach)

One of the beaches we visited for my birthday

Day at the beach with Sally- Our complimentary beers with purchase of 10 $ Chair. We crashed a resort for the day.

The pool area of the resort we crashed for the day

The resort had a swim up bar

Dry Season Wet Season

Same road, but in the dry season

 

Dry Season

Wet Season  Quite a difference

16th Birthday party for my host sister. She invited over some friends for noodles and cake. We made the cake in my make shift oven. They gave her presents, like hair ties, flip flops, pencils..ect.

Make shift oven, made from an upside down pot and a gas stove.

                                                                        

All the girls who came for cake

The cake, and a little fruit.

The girls eating the cake, icing on their faces

really pretty scenery in Takeo Province

The kids I help with Arts and crafts

kids doing art work

 Our pig and its babies

host sister doing the dishes

Host cousin doing his laundry

our pregnant cat- its Calico

the pigs at our house!

a boy trying to pull his water buffalo - On an island off of Southern Cambodia

Health education at a Health Center (not mine) - similar to what I do

The country side where the rice is growing right now, and its very green and pretty

new host family looking at my computer in my room, they 're always laughing

Typical stir fry Cambodian dish

The house I live in now. My garden is in the front of the house on either side

The mosquitio killer !!  I cant live without it