Label/Stamp Book Party; A Normal, Sweet Day with Cambodian Friends
August 25th, 2010 § Leave a Comment
Labeling and stamping party at the library! The book drive is finished. Book buying is over. With $2000 of new and used books in Khmer and English, we label and stamp the school name inside with a little token of appreciate for the community, school, and Peace Corps for pitching in together to raise such an incredible amount of money to this community library. Now unprecedented amount of books in the high school!
Some students took a break and read the books, bubbling wtih enthusiasm.
After a much labeling and stamping and dirt all over oneself, I started a game of badminton but my arms just got tired, but really more from the hard dirt floor–on the verge of tripping over rocks. Don’t ever take grass for granted! The two youngsters I gave my racquets to play together sister and brother around mechanics working. The rocks don’t bother them, and they find it a great work out. The sun sets and a birdie is in the air, over a car hood, over a sign, over a mother with a baby, it goes…
The next day, we had a group photo with my hospital ESL class. Some of the best students I had in Cambodia… so hilarious and good natured, like most smiling Cambodians.
Then I got back my tailored wedding party outfit–typically a long skirt and a dressy top. I waited a year to get it because that’s how often I go to weddings, but my friend’s family wanted to see me try it on. They even went the extra mile, enjoying it the whole time, and my “aunt” put a flower from her garden in my heart. It was sweetness.
I was laughing and her son took a photo of me. Teachers don’t normally wear tube tops, so it was pretty noticeable around my village, but people think it pretty.
This is just a shot of me at my friend’s snack-drink shop. My friend started to wear her wedding outfit for fun so we could take photos to develop as keepsakes of their foreigner friend dressed up like a Khmer woman dressed properly for a wedding party! We’re in the midst of good byes as I leave Cambodia soon.
A fuzzy, soft neat flower around her garden.
