Twas the night before Christmas
With no hope of it snowing
With no hope of it snowing
The frogs were attacking
The roosters were crowing
The snowflakers were hung
by gold ribbon with ease
by gold ribbon with ease
in hopes it could be cooler
than 90 degrees
Six undignified women
Each asleep on their mat
Each asleep on their mat
All dreaming of coffee or cola
Yes, the end of their fast
All under the bugnet
Resigned to the reason
Resigned to the reason
There could be no Christmas spirit
in Cambodia’s dry season
Then from below
There arose a strange sound
There arose a strange sound
All six ran outside
And delightfully found
A shiny red tuk tuk
Coming into view
Coming into view
It carried three brothers
Names all starting with U
On Uee, on Umong, on Uncle Sitai
On Song, on Kimsay, and our favorite Utry
On Song, on Kimsay, and our favorite Utry
In Khmer and English
They praised God with all their might
They praised God with all their might
A Merry Cambodian Christmas to all
And to all a good night.
My lovely teammate Erin wrote this poem for us for Christmas Eve. I know I’ve already written some about Christmas in Cambodia but our actual Christmas day was amazing, so I thought I’d share 🙂 Here’s a schedule of our day:
6:00 a.m. Wakeup and open “presents” aka notes we all wrote each other.
7:00 Breakfast
8:00 Hop on a motorcycle/tuk tuk with the boys in search of water buffalos to ride
9:00 Arrive at water buffalo destination. Ride the buffalos, pass out cookies to the kids, and sing a few Christmas carols.
10:00: Stop at a bridge on the way home. Get out. Jump off the bridge. Talk to my family on the phone! Repeat bridge jump. Head home.
12:00: Lunch
1:30: Watch Elf.
5:00: Put on a Christmas program for 200 of our English students. Watch the chaos unfold.
7:00: Dinner
7:40: Star gazing.
8:00: Watch Hook.
10:00: Gooood night
🙂 🙂 🙂
Bridge jumping round 2 video:
