Well I have been awhile from my site awhile due to this big peace corps meeting I had but the good news is I found out I can now official and legally ride on the back of motos!!! This makes my life so much more easier however there are mad restrictions. My health director and the rest of the hospital staff are so excited for me two because now I can actually do out reach with them! This time around they split the English and health people up which from my perspective made things so much better because in the past isn’t has been me sitting though hours of talking about teaching eng which I say I really am the only volunteer that does not teach eng on the side. Well peace corps meeting was pretty good lots of info about how to get money for projects met some amazing ngos etc people to contact. It was also really good bc we had one day with two of our counter parts show up and I think they finally understand all the projects im doing and what help I need. Out side of peace corps meetings I had very little time to enjoy pp as much as I would like to because I had to really work over time on my projects first being tom shoes I had two separate meetings with them. the first one was though a contact I got from my pcmo the guy I met with was khmer and really wanted me to work with his gov however I don’t think that will happen because as soon as it goes to the gov I might never see the shoes again or have to pay to get them distributed who knows sigh I wish the gov was not corrupt but that’s the way it goes. However he did give me information on orphanages in Cambodia and how they can get shoes and gave me a contact to the gso who might have military trucks for me to get shoes to volunteers. I guess I should explain that I have been trying to work so hard on finding storage costum status and trucks to get shoes to volunteers with no money is no easy feat =) my thought was the only people power enough to help me would be the united states embassy or usaid however the director of peace corps seems to think this is a bad idea. I was like humm now what well I had a second meeting with the embassy this time with this amazing guy name matt who has worked in so many places tons of experience he actually just got to Cambodia when I did before he was working in Bagdad anyways he was telling me he thinks the military trucks are not a good idea because their to spermatic however that we need to find a company that will help because of the good press and was like well what is the one American company that goes wall to wall Cambodia any guess you guys….coca cola he is like we will talk to their president of Cambodia now if your like me your thinking well how the hell do we get the president of some company in any region to give me the time of day. Working with the embassy does have it perks he is like o simple we talk to the chamber of commerce who is working with them already for a 4th of July party he is like I think it will work. Other then that I am doing a take back the night for my village which is also no easy feat because gender violence is more like 1950s America you know it’s a family issues etc women should want to cook blah blah gender roles. Well I had to get flyers made into Khmer find hand out information in Khmer and buy shirts for cheap for people to draw on a whole bunch of other stuff. I had to make a bunch of photo copies go market to market trying to find shirts and explain what I wanted in Khmer which in it self makes me tired I also found this amazing library sponsored by GADC anyways it was a whole place full of books on gender issues in Cambodia in Khmer and eng I was in heaven supper excited this exist I really want to work with them for my conference ill have to work on that more when I get back to site. Next I had to get things together for my soccer camp which im officle starting at the end of this month I had that already made into Khmer but had to make photo copies and I tried looking for ball bags in the city with no luck I was thinking mabey I can use big black garbage bags which im still not sure if they sell in Cambodia ill let you know if I ever find them. good news as well I got tested for TB and im free of it bad news my host dad has been lieing to peace corps about having it so I still have to be retested since I am still around it =( however I will be moving house as to where I will live I have no idea because its complicated….how to explain well I like my brothers and sisters just my host dad is sort of a dick or something seems wrong with him to me anyways im sort of happy that this an excuses to move however feel bad for my family and I know if I make them lose face it wil be really bad for me as well because then they will say stuff about me to people and it can get socially ichy by Cambodian standards so now im left how to I pick a house that least likely get people talking so while most of you know from reading I hang out with jentee’s family all the time so that would be an easy move however my family doest like her family all that much not sure why but they seem sort of upset that me and her r friends but whatever so I was thinking of living with my director is wife is supper nice and his daughter speaks eng really well. The other thing is their has to be certain standards for me to live in a house like a bathroom and only 20 percent of Cambodians have a squatting toilet so right their limits who I can live with then you add in I need my own room and the percent gets smaller and a certain type of kitchen etc. however ill hope that one of those two house I end up in weather that will really happen I don’t yet know peace corps I guess is coming next week to figure it out sigh. Till next time peace out from the other side of the world!
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