dinner on the mekhong river (Left: Heather, Kim, Rithy / Right: Liz, me, Janice, Jephone)

august 30

Today i am sitting in a makeshift 3 day excel class, in a crowded hot room with ancient computers, filled with cambodians that i cannot understand, they hit my back, pull my arms in every direction, "help me katrina," they say, thick with accent, then they talk so loud and fast in khmer to one another, and then again, to you, in broken english. i listen closely with stern concentration to make sense of their few english words. i am american. so american. today i just sat there and laughed, and laughed, and could not stop. look where i am. look at my situations. look at my arms being pulled out of their sockets! (and this is only a workshop for teachers, the students haven't even come yet!) i'm halfway across the world. not just for leisure travel, for vacation, but work. i'm living here. i'm out of my mind. ecstatic. insane. stressed. and i'm happy. really. i am. praise God.