The orphanage finds itself in a similar situation as last time: the missionaries have their annual vacation and no one can cover the boys' home, so I offered to go again. Since I am doing this a part of the Mission's Global Outreach Ministry, I will actually get paid on this trip! Woohoo! This time will be much easier than last for several reasons: I have been to Cambodia already, I know what I am doing (sort of), I know the boys, it is only two weeks, I worked with the new CEO here at the Mission (he and his family relocated to Phnom Penh last May to run Asian Hope), there are fewer boys in the home as many have gone off to college all over the world, and the boys will be in school most of the day.
I might even be able to get in a little sight seeing this time. Really, I only hope to get out to the dump again and to the Killing Fields. Last time I was able to get to the genocide museum in the capital (a former prison where many stayed before being shipped out to the Killing Fields), but the Fields are a few Kilometers outside the city.
I leave at the end of March and will be back a couple of days before Easter.
So, there's your update.
9 comments:
YIPPEE! What a great opportunity for you again, plus a chance to be available to bless the both missionaries AND the boys there!
Please refresh me in particular here re the Killing Fields' history. I have a vague memory that it happened & that later there was a movie by that name (which I didn't see). It obviously has an ominous sound to it but I am ready to hear about it now.. mc
You can Google the Killing Fields on your own, but this will get you started.
The Killing Fields were a number of sites in Cambodia where large numbers of people were killed and buried by the totalitarian communist Khmer Rouge regime, during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979 (see Cambodian genocide).One of the Khmer Rouge's first acts was to move most of the urban population into the countryside.
That's great, Kyle. I'm glad you get to go. Have to laugh at Blogger's interesting placement of type, though.
I thought it was some Greek word I was unfamiliar with. ;p
Glad to hear about the trip. Sounds like it will be more enjoyable than the last time!
re the type - I could only figure it out after reading the rest of the sentence first. So glad you get another opportunity to go.
That's funny. It only posted weird once for me. Every other time it was fine. The trip last time was truly great and awful simultaneously: not having known anyone, having all of the controversy surrounding the old CEO, not having much in the way of guidelines or support, and being stuck on the compound for nearly 10 days without being able to leave was awful. But getting to know the kids, getting to hang out with Bob after he flew out, visiting the dump and some of the sites in the city, and having my t shirts and boxers ironed, and some of my photo results were great.
Google it? Uh yes, I forgot that is an option, but what you've shared is really all I needed! Thanks! :-) mc
You mean Windy has not taken up being a nice little Cambodian lady and started ironing your boxers. Actually - you'd better get a few new ones the iron might shred your old ones. (Now that I wrote that it will make someone wonder how his MIL knows this - but it was conversations on wash day last Nov.)
We MIL's learn a LOT of things by sheer default! ;-) mc
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