In other news, I have been at my current site for over 2 months now. Oh how time flies. It has thus taken me those 2 months in order to take any sort of pictures, which I finally took this morning before rushing off to school.
My house. It's quite big.
The living room. Furniture equals a hammock and a folding couch thing, which is my host father's place of rest. We eat on the floor, over in the corner there by the tv.
The kitchen, mom cooking while sis is doing some dishes. Up the stairs on the right is my room. We'll wait until its sufficiently clean until putting any pictures of that on the Internet.
View from the balcony upstairs. Those are rice fields. Not ours though. The rice in front has been harvested already. The longer rice in the back has not yet been cut.
My sister riding a bike. In the background is our very own coconut tree. Delicious.
Backyard view from the balcony. Next to the rice fields on the left is our vegetable garden.
Ninja, the new puppy.
We also have 2 new kittens, whose names have not yet been determined.
One of the goals of Peace Corps Cambodia is to teach host country nationals about American culture. A large part of our culture is our holidays, but you don't realize how difficult, and weird it is to explain to a foreigner about American holidays, in a foreign language, until you have to do it dozens of times. My first was Halloween, in which I tried to explain that all the children put on scary costumes and masks, carve scary faces into pumpkins, knock on strangers' doors and demand candy. 'Why?' They ask me. Good question. My second was thanksgiving. On thanksgiving, I told them, we get together will our whole family, anywhere from 5 to 50 people, eat lots of turkey and potatoes until we are full to bursting, and then go watch football on tv. Next is Christmas. Any ideas? Keep it simple, like if you were talking to a baby whose language skills had not yet developed to have deep conversations about the culture of American holidays.
