Recap on our second
week in Cambodia!!
We were able to go to work three times to observe and sort of go through an orientation to learn more about the organization. This time was amazing!! We were able to tour the facilities, and sit in on some cooking classes, basic life skill classes, and English classes. We LOVED getting to meet some of the girls and interact with them a bit :)
We also learned what we will be working on primarily for our time here. They are attempting to create a Life Skills curriculum for the girls that will be taught in their classes. This curriculum will cover everything you can imagine that most kids learn from their family growing up, but these girls have not had a chance to yet. Some of it has already been written by past interns, but we will be helping to first get everything formatted in the same ways (harder than it sounds since it's been developed by 10 different people) and then adding to it and writing certain sections that have not been started yet. We are really excited to tackle this challenge! We feel like it is very important for the girls to be able to function safely and live independently without getting dragged back into the cycle of trafficking. This is crucial education for these girls, and we feel really honored to be able to contribute to it! :) Please pray for us as we begin to work on this because neither of us feels qualified in any way to be writing curriculum this precious, so please pray that God will help us write it in a way that the girls will understand, that the teachers can easily teach, and that we will not get frustrated with ourselves during the process :)
Another big thing that happened last week was we moved out of our hotel room!! Hallelujah!! We were definitely starting to feel a bit cramped in one room and lost without a kitchen for sure. We are so very thankful to have moved into a beautiful apartment. We will be living with two women who also work for NGOs in the city, and they have a spare room, which they have SO graciously offered to us for a very, very good price each month!! We are so excited to live with them and get to know them more!! I think our personalities are all very compatible, and it has been fun so far, just over the weekend, to get to hang out and chat. We feel so incredibly grateful and just surprised again by God's amazing provision and blessings :) I still can't believe how this opportunity came to us!! God is so good.
So now that we have access to a kitchen, we have been making smoothies with all of the wonderful fresh fruits available around here and sandwiches with all of the refreshing veggies...making our own food for some meals feels awesome, and I have definitely missed it! Tonight we made a pasta dish with whole grain spaghetti and marinara sauce with some pesto mixed in…then we added tomatoes and cucumbers and walnuts to the sauce. It was delicious! So fun to cook :)
One thing that is pretty humorous about Cambodia is that the stores here have some random American products available. Like Oreos and Fruit Loops ($9 for a small box!) and Skippy peanut butter, and Snickers bars. I have even seen some Monster energy drinks and Slim Jims!! It's pretty funny and always surprising when we see some item so familiar sitting on the shelf! haha We are enjoying having some familiar choices that are available but also trying new foods and flavors. :)
This past Sunday we visited the Free Methodist Church that we went to 2 years ago with our group from school. Our friend, Philemon, went with us so we knew him at least. It was so fun and crazy to revisit a place that we had went to on our last trip here!! Neither of us ever though realistically that we would ever be back to Cambodia, and here we are. It just continues to amaze me that I have this chance to experience the culture and people all over again, and for such a longer amount of time. :)
Thank you all so much for your continued prayers and thoughts for us as we are here!!!!! I have no idea where we would be without your love and support, and we can literally feel the prayer covering that is emanating from the States as we go about life over here in Cambodia. We are having so much fun experiencing all kinds of new things and re-experiencing things that we have forgotten about, and we are so thankful still for this opportunity.
A PRAISE: My (Becca) allergic reaction is going away on my legs, and we think it was the detergent on the sheets at the hotel. So happy it’s almost gone!!! Thank you for the prayers!
Happy October...enjoy the beautiful fall weather for me!!!!!!! I am missing it in this 80 degree tropical rainy weather! :/ Carve a pumpkin or go to a cider mill today in my honor! This is the best season :)
We were able to go to work three times to observe and sort of go through an orientation to learn more about the organization. This time was amazing!! We were able to tour the facilities, and sit in on some cooking classes, basic life skill classes, and English classes. We LOVED getting to meet some of the girls and interact with them a bit :)
We also learned what we will be working on primarily for our time here. They are attempting to create a Life Skills curriculum for the girls that will be taught in their classes. This curriculum will cover everything you can imagine that most kids learn from their family growing up, but these girls have not had a chance to yet. Some of it has already been written by past interns, but we will be helping to first get everything formatted in the same ways (harder than it sounds since it's been developed by 10 different people) and then adding to it and writing certain sections that have not been started yet. We are really excited to tackle this challenge! We feel like it is very important for the girls to be able to function safely and live independently without getting dragged back into the cycle of trafficking. This is crucial education for these girls, and we feel really honored to be able to contribute to it! :) Please pray for us as we begin to work on this because neither of us feels qualified in any way to be writing curriculum this precious, so please pray that God will help us write it in a way that the girls will understand, that the teachers can easily teach, and that we will not get frustrated with ourselves during the process :)
Another big thing that happened last week was we moved out of our hotel room!! Hallelujah!! We were definitely starting to feel a bit cramped in one room and lost without a kitchen for sure. We are so very thankful to have moved into a beautiful apartment. We will be living with two women who also work for NGOs in the city, and they have a spare room, which they have SO graciously offered to us for a very, very good price each month!! We are so excited to live with them and get to know them more!! I think our personalities are all very compatible, and it has been fun so far, just over the weekend, to get to hang out and chat. We feel so incredibly grateful and just surprised again by God's amazing provision and blessings :) I still can't believe how this opportunity came to us!! God is so good.
So now that we have access to a kitchen, we have been making smoothies with all of the wonderful fresh fruits available around here and sandwiches with all of the refreshing veggies...making our own food for some meals feels awesome, and I have definitely missed it! Tonight we made a pasta dish with whole grain spaghetti and marinara sauce with some pesto mixed in…then we added tomatoes and cucumbers and walnuts to the sauce. It was delicious! So fun to cook :)
One thing that is pretty humorous about Cambodia is that the stores here have some random American products available. Like Oreos and Fruit Loops ($9 for a small box!) and Skippy peanut butter, and Snickers bars. I have even seen some Monster energy drinks and Slim Jims!! It's pretty funny and always surprising when we see some item so familiar sitting on the shelf! haha We are enjoying having some familiar choices that are available but also trying new foods and flavors. :)
This past Sunday we visited the Free Methodist Church that we went to 2 years ago with our group from school. Our friend, Philemon, went with us so we knew him at least. It was so fun and crazy to revisit a place that we had went to on our last trip here!! Neither of us ever though realistically that we would ever be back to Cambodia, and here we are. It just continues to amaze me that I have this chance to experience the culture and people all over again, and for such a longer amount of time. :)
Thank you all so much for your continued prayers and thoughts for us as we are here!!!!! I have no idea where we would be without your love and support, and we can literally feel the prayer covering that is emanating from the States as we go about life over here in Cambodia. We are having so much fun experiencing all kinds of new things and re-experiencing things that we have forgotten about, and we are so thankful still for this opportunity.
A PRAISE: My (Becca) allergic reaction is going away on my legs, and we think it was the detergent on the sheets at the hotel. So happy it’s almost gone!!! Thank you for the prayers!
Happy October...enjoy the beautiful fall weather for me!!!!!!! I am missing it in this 80 degree tropical rainy weather! :/ Carve a pumpkin or go to a cider mill today in my honor! This is the best season :)
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