Lists

(Christine I promise I will try to stop stealing your blog ideas!)

Things I still need to take pictures of:
1) Tuk Tuk
2) Me wearing my helmet
3) Independence Monument/sites in Phnom Penh
4) Markets
5) Streets in Phnom Penh
6) All my friends

Things I still need to see/do:
1) Go to Brown, my expat friends favorite coffee shop
2) Visit all the NGO social enterprises selling cool gifts/souvenirs
3) Buy fabric and have professional clothes made for cheap
4) Have another cheap, amazing massage because I will never be willing to spend $100 on a massage in the States
5) Cruise the waterfront at night a few more times
6) Eat my weight in mangoes, rambutin, watermelon, papaya, and dragon fruit
7) Get a good enough tan to make people at home jealous
8) Purchase earrings for SALT earring exchange. Do not put this off til the last minute
9) Plenty of quality time with my host sisters
10) Drink many $2 fancy coffees, eat many $1.25 delicious desserts, enjoy the fact that a $5 meal out is an expensive meal
11) Participate in roadside aerobics/dance class
12) Hold MCC baby, Cedar, a lot
13) Go dancing with host sisters again
14) Figure out how to take home more than I brought but still use only one suitcase

Things to think about:
1) Going home- what does that mean? What are my expectations? (That I probably should drop. The #1 characteristic of a good overseas worker is low expectations)
2) Must find job.
3) How to I sum up this experience for others? All the difficult and wonderful things about being here. All the many sides of what Cambodia is - post-conflict, stable, poor, wealthy, urban, rural, Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, developing and underdeveloped.
4) Accept that I will be in transition for awhile. Its okay. Its not forever.
5) Will I miss rice?