Monthly Archives: May 2011

My map project is still a work in process, although getting dangerously close to completion. I know better by now than to give an actual time frame (like Microsoft – It’s gonna be done by Saturday… Tuesday… next week… about … Continue reading →

Yesterday morning, I was told that two of my three co-teachers don’t want to teach with me next year because if they do, they have to show up to class. That’s actually true – if I wasn’t there, they’d be … Continue reading →

This box is the last of three that have been in my house over the past few weeks. I think my mango average has been about three a day. Mango season, I will miss you.

I was enjoying a free, class-cancelled period yesterday afternoon, having a nice chat with two students about my parents’ names, their favorite colors, and when they eat dinner. Out of the blue one of the two girls, Kanya, asked me … Continue reading →

This is the view from my window as of five minutes ago, five minutes being the amount of time it took to upload this photo. So far the thermometer I bought for my room, usually serving only as a cruel … Continue reading →

As embarrassing as it may be to admit, before I bought my phone for internet in Cambodia, I never had a phone with a camera.  After I fell hanging lights and smashed up the first cell phone I got with … Continue reading →

It’s already 6:58 when my phone rings.  I’m squatting in my sampot (teacher skirt), hurriedly chopping at my bike with an axe.  I have to answer, knowing a call now will be my co-teacher saying he can’t come.   “I’m going … Continue reading →

After two false starts  (consisting of me inviting a bunch of students then showing up and going “Hello?… Hello?…” twice), we have finally gotten into painting a world map at my school.  Yesterday we were just making the grid, but … Continue reading →