Quick Updates...

I've been super busy and super tired! For some reason I have no energy lately. Lift me up in your thoughts that I would have strength to continue the work here.

I'm not sure if I mentioned this or not, but I started volunteering my spare time with an organization called Kone Kmeng. That's Cambodian for "Little Children." They assist local communities in rescuing abused children or those addicted to drugs or infected with HIV/AIDS. Kone Kmeng also digs wells and tests water quality in many poor villages around the country. I've been asked to head up their monthly newsletter. I'll be traveling one weekend a month to a project - usually quite far away from the capital - and collecting stories, taking photos...that sort of thing. I'm excited. Anyway, I just finished the first edition. Check out www.kone-kmeng.org. I'll also be revising/updating the website.

I'm continuing to teach Spanish in the afternoons at the student center, and I just started tutoring a guy for his TOEFL test. This is like an English aptitude exam that many students must take before being accepting into foreign, English-speaking universities. Think of it as the ACT or SAT only just for English. This guy I'm tutoring, Nary, is a former student from Kampong Thom (I still need to blog about my week there!). He's wanting to attend a seminary in Singapore, but he'll need a much higher proficiency in English if this is gonna happen. I'll be traveling out to his school twice a week to tutor him. It's about 45 minutes away on a good day, and I have to drive through mud and muck to get there, but I enjoy it 'cause many of my former students are studying at the same school. Sina is out there, so I can catch up with him some.

That's all from the Asian front. Drop me an email somtime. My pics are up-to-date finally. Check those out.

Grace and peace,

Bryant