Going to miss this

June 2
Monday

You know everyday a group of kids come and sit on my desk and just have fun. I literally have kids crawling on me all day long. I still can remember being fired from my babysitting job with my AUNTY! I know what your thinking; family….? Well, needless to say I was not very good at it (got fired) because I didn’t know what to do with little kids. I was completely hopeless. I have never been to good with kids. I just don’t understand there way of thinking, but after being forced to work with kids all day, I think It have a better grip on the handle. Ok, I am getting better with kids, but I’m not the kind of person you want to go to when you cry. I just don’t know what to do. Today, I made Pagna cry because he was not showing respect to God when we were praying. My kids know that when we pray your suppose to bow your head, clasp hands, close your eyes, and be quiet. Well, unfortunately Pagna was not showing respect. So, I asked him to pray for us again so that we could eat lunch. He didn’t pray and I finally let the other kids eat lunch and Pagna didn’t get to eat lunch until he prayed with me. Needless to say he didn’t pray with me, but rather cried until he got his way. I didn’t give in! I literally folded his hands, closed his eyes and made him repeat after me. If he didn’t repeat then we would not continue in the pray. Pagna was not happy with me for the rest of the day. In fact all the boys, which is the whole class, was calling me bad teacher. I was mad about that and I explained that when you disobey me you’re going to have consequences. I don’t like it when you don’t show respect to God. I used the example, that if I came into a temple and was disrespectful; they understood then.

Nothing much...

June 1
Sunday

All this week I have been having troubles with my computer. One day after school I turned my computer on and found that everything was reformatted. I seriously thought that I lost everything; thankfully I didn’t. Nonetheless I decided that I was going to have our computer guy at school look at my school. He said that there was no virus, but probably the best way to fix the computer is to reformat the whole thing. So last night Boramey stayed up all night reformatting my computer. I was so happy for that. Right now I’m using my computer and it works so much better. I guess Rith (who looked at my computer) was right about refreshing the whole computer.

On the weekend I didn’t do to much, but chill out with Boramey. She stayed at my house on Saturday night and we got up early and meet Nylee to go running at the riverside. Well, actually Boramey didn’t run because she stayed up all night to fix my computer, but Nylee and I ran about 3.5miles. This was the first time I ran out in public here. I usually just run on my balcony, which I haven’t because I’m so tired. I think I’m overwhelmed with school and figuring things out before I go home. I have been having headaches every night. I’m going to see I if I drink more water if that will help and go to bed earlier. If that doesn’t help then I think I’m going to go to the doctor up here to see what the deal is. I hope nothing major is happening. I actually just think its stress. Even when I sleep I feel like I got a good nights rest, but half of the morning I’m yawning.

Before I forget ‘rabbit, rabbit’, all your luck is mine now. Today, I dyed my hair back to brown again. Last time I dyed it Katrina did it and it looked GREAT! I loved the color and it was nice and even. I got it done to day and it was nice too, but I sure do miss talking to people while waiting for the dye to settle. Boramey took me to this shop on the corner of pa-sa-ma-oug. I’m really picky with my hair so I was hesitant to trust the people to do my hair. In the end it turned out nice too. While I was sitting there four others girls talked in Khmer (obviously) and I just minded my own business. I miss being able to sit in a barber shop and at least make small talk with your beautician. The beautician shop was not clean and I started to wonder if they ever change/wash the brushes after each use. I decided to block that thought out of my mind considering the fact that she had already started to put the dye in. It figured if I got lice I bought two lice packets from home to be ready. Surprisingly I didn’t have a run in with it, well, that one time before Christmas break. I was holding Mara in my lap and I noticed a whole bunch of white specks in her hair. I didn’t realize what it was until Savoun (KA teacher with Kim) said something to me. That night I was to fly out of Phnom Penh to Korea and I didn’t want to have lice. So I told Klaralyn about it and she let me use her Tea Tree shampoo while I was there.

I called my mom this morning at Boramey’s house and I figured out that I miss out on my job at Papoose. I guess I’m not suppose to go….nonetheless all morning I stayed at Boramey’s house and looked for jobs in Bozeman. I was almost thinking about becoming a nanny for the summer. And work part time in the spring while going to school. Unfortunitely I didn’t find one, so then I remember about Big Sky Resort in Big Sky near Bozeman. Its just like Papoose, but bigger. I started looking online and found some stuff I’m interested in. Most of the jobs are full time, which is nice, but I only need full time during the summer and winter time; during school time part time.

Riverside in the morning

May 25
Sunday

Over the weekend I pretty much spent my time with Boramey. After our regular lunch on Friday we went to the Russian market and I finally bought new flip flops. She took me to a new part of Phnom Penh. I bought black and white ones. All the shoes made here are hand made. You can find shoe repair places everywhere here, but unfortunately they couldn’t fix my old flip flops; man, if they only would have lasted me one more month! Nonetheless I like the new ones I have now.

Back to the long weekend; yes, we had another long weekend. It was Plowing Day in Phnom Penh on Friday. This particular holiday they bring cows to the King’s Palace and the first cow that eats the grass is blessed (I’m not totally sure about this, but this is what I have gathered). I stayed the night at Boramey house on Friday and Saturday. It was really nice, and relaxing. She has this relaxing area out behind her house with hammocks and a place you can plug your computer in to check the internet or do whatever. I really like just sitting in the hammocks and chill’n. We had pancakes for Sabbath breakfast while sitting outside. What I love the most about it is, her house is set apart from the busy Phnom Penh I live in and it’s nice to hear roosters and birds instead of cars and moto’s. I am truly a country girl.

Oh! On Sabbath afternoon we had some of the Lao boys at the house to just chill out. We didn’t do much but talk and enjoy the fresh air. I was responsible for making sure the boys made it back for church service on time (5:00 p.m.), but it started to rain and no one wanted to get wet, well, except for Singphor. So I called and asked Ben what to do and he didn’t say anything and I just decided to wait until the rain died down so bring them home. We were late and I think Ben is mad at me, but whatever I tried to do my best.

Saturday night I just updated my blogspot and chilled at her house. Boramey, Nylee and I have been planning on going to the riverside in the morning to see the people to exercises. So, we finally made a plan to. On Sunday morning we got up at 4 a.m and headed out to the riverside. At first Nelee didn’t get out of bed, but while Boramey and I were driving there he found us. After seeing the sunrise we went out for breakfast. For breakfast we all had noodles. This is the typical breakfast in Cambodia. I have really become a custom to what they eat. Before I would never eat noodle for breakfast. I ate a big meal once before and I felt like I had a rock in my stomach, but now I love it! One more thing that happened while at the riverside, before Neele caught back up with us Boramey and I had a run in with some boys. We were turning onto a rode, but soon found that is was under construction so we stopped to turn around, but so did two other moto’s. Now, I was not because we in the way of traffic or anything they stopped because they wanted to fool around. I really didn’t know what was going on at first, but once I noticed that they stopped and Boramey sped up I figured it was for a good reason. We drove really fast over bumps and I just grabbed onto the moto and held on. Nothing would have happened anyway because we were so close to where people were. I just held on an prayed that I didn’t fall off.
On Sunday afternoon I finished my midterm grades and updated my antivirus. Nova and Khamphia came to the house in the afternoon. It was just a really relaxing weekend. I’m so glad that I decided to step out of my comfort zone and made more friends. Boramey is such a good friend. I will miss her when I leave. I have only a little more of a month left! I have mixed feeling about it all.