Wed

It's late at night here so this is going to be a quick post, since the jet lag still has me ready for bed by 8 p.m. Today our fourth intern, Stan, arrived and tomorrow the four of us will be getting on a public transport bus to travel for 6 hours to the town of Siem Riep, where the first English camp will be held. Another 2 interns and 25 short termers will meet us there to do the camp with 125 Khmer (Cambodian) people.
Bonding with the other three interns has been exciting, since we're all working through the same jet lag, nerves, and excitement. Natalie (who was a finalist for Miss Canada this year - random fact) is 20, and can only be defined as high energy. On her first day here, after a random off the wall moment, she claimed that she has never been this quiet and reserved. We all just looked at each other in shock. But she's definitely fun to have around. Elias is quiet (the real quiet, not the Natalie quiet) and lives in Queens, NYC but goes to Messiah College. We've had fun comparing PA experience, while Natalie chimes in with how weird Americans are compared to Canadians. Stan, who arrived a couple hours ago, is still new but has been to Cambodia twice in the past 6 years for 10 day trips. All of us have had some good conversations about what it's like to be young 20-somethings in CMA churches wanting to do missions and/or working overseas.
I have a lot more things I've been chronicling on my own laptop about the genocide museum, the markets we went today and other random thoughts, but they will have to wait. But one fun fact of Cambodia; everything is dirt cheap. Northface backpacks (normally $200) are $10. Any kind of necklace with real stones like emeralds are about $10. The markets are a strange mix of Cambodian culture soveniers next to movies for $2. I already bought Iron Man and Prince Caspian, which proved to be decent quality. So any request from home for any movie or TV show are okay!