Christmas in Cambodia. How to celebrate a holiday, you ask, which no other natives of your host country celebrate? To start, we Americans decided to have a White Elephant gift exchange this weekend in Siem Reap. The rule was less than $5 per gift, so some creativity had to go into it. Here is not one, but four pictures of what I made. I kind of wanted to keep it for myself, but that's not how it works, unfortunately.
Rachel, my friend who lives nearish me, was the excited winner of this spectacularness.
During Christmas Day, I managed to find a Santa Claus hat for kids in the market, and made it my goal to wear it all day on Christmas, so here are some pictures of that.
I'm even including a selfie.
Unexpectedly, my awesome students from my private class all gave me gifts for Christmas, which was amazingly sweet.
At any rate, despite the fact that I spent Christmas far from the people that I normally spend it with, it still turned out to be a pretty special day, thanks to all my wonderful Cambodian friends.
I love the Christmas piggy. You are so creative!!!! Nana and Papa wondered why I have so much change in baskets and bowls. I told them it's because you took your piggy bank. ;) I love you and am so happy you had a good Christmas. Ours was not the same without you.
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