This month looked like:
- Sweating
- DJing children’s birthday parties
- Chasing chickens off the kitchen table
- Swimming (fully clothed) in the hot tub that is the South China Sea
- Hearing young kids constantly setting off firecrackers
- Sweating
- Getting our picture taken by the police
- Digging through bricks with broken shovels
- Chasing after the ice cream truck
- Drinking hot coconut juice to be polite and then being told by our teenage host that she isn’t joining because she doesn’t like the taste
- Playing with chicks on Easter
- Watching a mouse drown in the toilet after a failed rescue attempt
- Teaching English in cow pastures
- Drinking coffee Coca Cola
- Worshipping in the dark
- Playing volleyball in the yard
- Loving on our dog, Jackie Chan
- Sweating
- Picking up tons of trash
- Catering Buddhist parties
- Listening to Cambodian songs blasting over speakers at all hours of the day and night
- Visiting homes with 14-year-old translators who don’t really know English
- Getting sprayed with water guns by children on motorcycles
- Protecting kids from geese
- Freeing lizards who get stuck in the bedroom wall
- Watercoloring with kids who turn to our legs for canvases when they run out of paper
- Sitting in lots of hammocks and readings lots of books
- Watching men fish in a pond of mud
- Bragging to my friends when my pee is anything other than dark yellow (just kidding) (sorta)
- Sweating
- Getting sprayed by fire truck hoses
- Spending hours bathing puppies to get rid of their fleas
- Eating at least three apples per day
- Sitting outside with my best friends as the sky turns from blue to pink to black, laughter filling the air, loving life in Toch Village
