Stung Treng

Wow! 

It has been almost two weeks that we have been in Stung Treng, Cambodia!!!

It feels great to be here and have met some super people already. Admittedly, we are still finding our place with the Asian Outreach Stung Treng (AO ST) team here but we are really happy to be here. We have been driving on the Moto lots, and I love just hanging on the back, taking photos as we go. Must do this more as already I am taking scenes for granted.

Stung Treng is a rural but growing town. It is the wet season but the temperature so far is up to 35degrees Celsius with humidity around 60% most days. Until it rains, that humidity just keeps rising, then a thunder and lighting storm to die for comes a long, bringing with it rain that scares Buddie inside and under the couch.

Buddie is a dog we are looking after. There are also the two small cats, Skippy and Smoky, its all quite homely where we are house sitting. No air conditioning, which is helping us get used to the heat quickly. Cold showers are so, so good here!!

Levi is keeping really busy at the AO model farm with general farm maintenance, as well as some construction tasks and has a lot more lined up for the Training Centre, which still has some work to be completed by an independent construction company before it is handed over to our construction team.

I on the other hand, feel like the first week has been me wandering around wiping my forehead as sweat drips into my sunnies. Yes, I have helped out there and here, I tagged along with a village outing once or twice, and I over organised the vaccines for the piglets that will come soon. Some days I have felt really disheartened because I don’t know what I should do with every minute of my day and all I want to be is useful. I try learning another word or saying in Khmer every day, normally it doesn’t stick till the sixed time. I have had a great many times when I wish I had learnt Khmer while in Canada. This way at least I could wander around distracting the staff by chatting to them. Well let us be honest I do this anyway with my very, very limited Khmer mixed with English and hand gestures.

After 11days here though my mind is starting to relax, I am also praying a lot that I see the opportunities where I can help.  God obviously has us here for this season for reasons, which may or may not be fully visual or practical like I may want it to be. I shall learn soon enough!

Mostly though, when it comes down to it, I am just so happy to be living in the town, hanging out in the same spot and with similar people to what my Dad did. Yay Dad moments, for I have had a few already.

Do you want to get a better idea about where we are and whom we are volunteering with???

Feel free to learn more about Asian Outreach Cambodia by checking out their website here or their Facebook page!!

oxo

F&J