Thursday, June 26, 2008

New town

Welcome to Siem Riep! Elias, Nat, Stan and I arrived by bus this evening. The bus ride was supposed to be 5 hours across Cambodia but ended up being about 8 hours because of the election. Cambodia will have its annual election for prime minister and ruling party next month and the campaigns consist of hundreds of trucks full of people parading around the country. So essentially, we were stuck in traffic for 3 extra hours. At least we got to see the Cambodian countryside.
In Siem Riep, we will be staying at a guest house with the 2 other interns, Jonathan and Emily, who have been to Cambodia twice before. They arrived today with 4 young people from their church who will help with the English camp then go home.
Tomorrow and Sunday will be free days to explore Siem Riep and then English camp officially starts Monday. It's very exciting and the four of us are so thrilled with how close we've become in such short a time. Hopefully we'll still be friends after 7 weeks!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I just got on to your blogg, I can be slow. I'm up late, for me atleast, so I thought I would take advantage of the time to read what is going on with you.
Praying for you and your "hall of faith" walk with the Lord.