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ACBM: The Kingdom of Cambodia!

Hey Everyone! :) Cambodia is great! The people are very friendly and extremely hospitable. They are generous with what little they have. Living here as a fieldworker is fantastic- it is hard work, but very enjoyable hard work! :). There are many different classes held by different fieldworkers every day (except Monday, because we take the day off), and some nights we have things scheduled. Josh and I feel settled in, and really love Cambodia. I really enjoy teaching and I know Josh does as well. I really like that there are heaps of young people here. Going to the dorm services is just like being at a camp, or going to Youth Group. Living here is like living and running a conference, just where people go to work in between activities!! :). I teach a class every morning from 7-8:00. It started off with three girls, and now, about five weeks later I have a class of 8!!! Unfortunately I thnk i may have to divide it up, not because of the number of people, but because of the range of Engl...
and here I find myself once again, lying on a comfortable hammock , preparing for my class tonight on Goals in our life and the importance of a vision. Brother Vitou is on the hammock on the other side of the pole my hammock is tied to. he just lying there listening to music. the music is humming in the air. The sky is a beautiful deep blue colour and I think about God's coming Kingdom as I watch the tropical sunset across Phnom Penh city. I can't wait. Life continues in Cambodia as normal. Whatever you'd like to define normal as over here. The BEC is still busy with teaching and learning themselves. I'm still loving living at the dorms. and continuing to build closer relationships with the boy and girl dormers. and all the brothers and sisters. Its been a good week. like usual its been a hectic week. unfortunately there is so many things to do , and just not enough time. including writing blogs. I don't have time to put any photos up at the moment. but I...

some photos and writing and stuff about Cambodia

hey everyone reporting once again from the Northern hemisphere, in that little country with so much potential, Cambodia. otherwise known as Cambodge. I haven't put photos up in so long so I thought that after such a long period of time I would let everyone have a look, sorry everyone for the lack of visual lately. I've just been so busy that I haven't had time. This is sort of a summary from ages ago. maybe a month, although it seems like just one huge day. I found some time this afternoon after teaching at LCDI, so I thought I should grasp the oppotunity while I have the chance. Time starts to merge itself into itself around here. there seems to be a phrase that is continually proceeding from my mouth and that is "there 'just insn't enough hours in a day". We are all working very hard here. Cassie and Sarah were both exhausted this morning, but they battled on. It gives me strength to watch others continue through their exhaustion. I feel fine. I think Go...

changing lives 2009

first thing that hits me as i walk out of plane when i land in singapore and then sydney 12 hours later is "this place is all organised and stuff".... so im sitting here at home noticing that the moon is upside down, its crazy all the thing up the north side are upside down, for instance, the serve there icecreams upside down, the sun come up the other way, red means go (but then so does green) even tho im back home i have the passwords, so heres my final blog........for now :) when i first got to cambodia we had a prepared to preach (p2p) week and then a bible school. in the p2p week we split up into 4 groups and went all around cambodia, two groups went to the provinces and the other two stayed in the capital phnom penh and build gardens for both the dorm and lcdi. there is one major thing that effected me in cambodia, and that was, i was sitting on the motorbike at the lights next to a school and al the kids were jumping on the chairs having a good old time (like kids do) ...

Another hectic couple of weeks in the powerful Empire of Cambodia

Chum Reap Sewer Ner Dang Och Near and to those English speakers, hello everyone. you may have noticed that(Father) Kbraham(Brother Kosal Chann) has increased my knowledge in the great arts of the Cambodian language. I have a problem. I haven't put up a blog in quite a while. and I always stress how Cambodia is the land of hecticness. so SO SO much has happened, since my last blog. So I have so so so much to tell you about. So I'm going to have to do it all in dot points, because its 1.20 AM and I've had a MASSIVE day and I've got another one coming tommorrow. so here goes, I'll try and put in Chronological order. - Its official I'm staying here until June 10th -I'm getting Khmer lessons from the Father Kbraham(Brother Kosal Chann), an excellent teacher. -me and Josh bought bikes and I'm currently cycling up to 56 kms a day. an average day probably about 44 or 50. - I have wonderful news!!! I talked to one of the dormers the other day, Boren, he has an ex...