August 24th. That was the date of my last post. I offer a gynormous apology to all 7 of my followers haha
Since then a lot has happened, The best month of the year came and went (October fyi), I got excited for Colorado, Minnesota and Vikings football. All of which have failed to live up to expectations. But thats ok, I'm in Cambodia. Time here seems neverending and independent from home. "Oh there's snow now?" "That's nice, I thought it was still August. Just check my last blog entry." I do miss seasons, it's the same thing everyday here. I mean it's November now and all the leaves in this country are still green!
Couple highlights of the last couple months:
One of my very best friends Kyle Tompane decided that while I'm out of the country it would a good time to get married. Kyle was my roomate for four years at CU. We were friends right away I couldn't of asked for a better roomate. Kyle asked me to be a groomsman in his wedding in December and at first I said sorry bro, I've got this whole living in Cambodia thing going on right now.
They set the date for Dec. 11th and asked me again if there was anyway I could make it back. I checked my calendar and it fust so happened that we had a 3day weekend for that weekend. The wheels in my head started rolling, the dreams of being in sunny San Diego were being visualized. The least I could do was ask the principle what the vacation policy was, I would need at least 4 days to fly 25hrs and back again right? So I did ask with little, yet some, hope. "You have 5 sick days, but you can't take them all at once" She said. Money, Money, Money, what about the money. It was my final obstacle in making this a reality. Aside from the craziness needed to take a long wekend trip on the other side of the world, but I've got that covered. Kyle offered to pay some, and my parents said they could help because this was really important to me and my birthday was coming up. All of a sudden I've got a flight booked to LAX for Dec. 8th coming back on the 12th. I can't even begin to imagine the reverse culture shock I will endure but it will be exciting I know that.
Oh yeah, btw, I went to Thailand haha I got to see another college roomate, Sam. Now Sam isn't his real name thats just what we started calling him when we couldn't pronounce his real name. He's from Bangkok and we got to hang out. He made sure I had a great time. We met at a mall that had american food (Dairy Queen, Subway, Burger King Krispy Kreme etc.) Could've spent the whole weekend there if you ask me ;) then he took us to an old king's residence then we went to a great show at a guiness record holding stage. It was amazing. I went on an elephant ride and a canoe looking thing ride around old Thai houses. Then there was a buffet that had a bunch of vegetarian food, then the show began.
The show took us through some of the history of Thailand and Siam. It was almost like a musical, all the dancing and music. Really it was quite good. Don't know how expensive it was because, like I said, Sam took care of me. Seemed expensive though.
We went to see some of the oldest temples in the world in Siem Reap. The Angkor Wat Temples should be on evryeones list. Pics are up on facebook. We took a bus up there, 5-7 hour ride costs around $4.25 one way haha Then we stayed in a hotel one night. It was almost heaven. I watched American football on TV and laid in bed in a room with air conditioning!!! It was alittle pricey though, double room for $15!! Travis and I split the cost :) The rest of the weekend we stayed at an orphanage run up there by some people we met while living here in Phnom Penh. They run a school and orphange and we teach 3 kids that were there and are now in school here. They all have some amazing stories. The sleeping arrangements were a little different from the hotel though... No american football, not even a TV, not even electricity haha there was, however a water pump outside if we wanted to bath or drink water. I enjoyed for a couple nights, not sure it would still be enjoyable much longer than that though...
Anyway, as for the future, I've been thinking a lot about it lately. Later this month we're going to Vietnam, then Dec there's the wedding, then for Christmas I'm hoping my family is going to come visit. (Dad's a little slow to pull the trigger on those tickets...) The plan for Christmas is to let the family see Cambodia for a few days then all go over to Sabah in Malaysia, look it up, it's a sweet place. After that we have the long cold winter months of January, February and March to look forward to... haha then in April it loks like we're going to India for the Khmer new year holiday. Hard to get excited about something so far away in the future but we found good deals for flights. Started the day thinking maybe we should go to China or something then by the end of the day had airfare booked for India. Kind of crazy and hectic day but I'm real glad we did it.
For the longterm who knows. I do love traveling, hopefully I can fit more in before going home whenever that will be, I bought a one way ticket here so I have absolutely no plans after this. It's a good thing but sometimes it really makes me wonder what the future will hold.
So I've updated everyone now, I even told you what I plan on doing so I don't really have to write another blog for another two more months, right mom? ;)
