Helllllllooooooo and Sous'day beautiful people out there!
We have been running around like crazy trying to do allll the things so we will give ya'll a quik recap!
So last weekend Beans went to Sihanoukville Friday and hung out on the beach all weekend! Amy made a very rainy trek to a wildlife preserve/zoo Randa our amazing Lebanese friend in Phnom Penh and then joined everyone on the beach Saturday!
The beach was seriously the best thing ever! The water was clear blue and warm and the beaches were fairly clean with beautiful sand and restaurants all along beach side so you can sit in chairs on the sand and eat and hang out! We also went on a boat tour of several islands on Saturday which included snorkeling in a coral reef and a fresh grilled chicken sand which on one of the islands which was maybe one of my favorite meals so far (yes western food!!!)
Overall it was a very relaxing weekend full of sun, water, rain, yummy food and good company! I (Amy) had off Monday and went to shoot allll the guns with this amazing guy Daniel. I met him in College Station right before we both happened to be heading off to South East Asia! He is teaching in Thailand til October and got to come visit for the weekend and of course being a former Corp guy at Texas A&M he HAD to shoot all the ridiculous guns!
As for this coming weekend we are hoping to go on an elephant trek in Mondul Kiri which we are so pumped about!!! Here is the place we are looking at booking it through just to give you an idea http://www.naturelodgecambodia.com/ .
Okay enough with the funsy things lets get down to business! Heres a quick update on what we have been up to with the majority of our time here!
Amy- I have had an amazing couple of days working with my supervisor on revising and editing their Annual Report. This is a huge deal for any company but especially for non-profits like CVCD this is basically advertising to their donors and potential donors. The hard part about having an office full of Cambodians is translating and creating documents and communications that effectively convey in English what they want to say. This is where I have had a blast researching CVCD's different partner organizations and other non-profits annual reports and digging into what messages they are trying to convey to their donors and pulling the best of all these reports into CVCD's so we can better appeal and communicate the amazing accomplishments for the year. So deets aside it has been an amazing opportunity and growing experience to learn how to create this report and effectively show our donors who and what their money has helped!
Beansses- I am in love with my precious kids and have been looking forward to going to work every day and working with them! I've seen little bits of improvements and I'm remembering most of their names now and have a decent idea of where they are all at and what they need to be working! It also helped that I found all their papers and documentation from past therapists of their diagnoses and what they enjoy and were capable of back around November. Also several of the kids are getting new wheel chairs so I've gotten to go with them to get fitted and figure out what they need in a chair which is fun and is giving me a chance to see the prosthetics clinic a little farther down the street from the orphanage. I think the kids are definitely getting more comfortable around me and I am around them so we've settled into a good routine and I get to see the kids smile all the time which is the best site in the world!! I could go on and on with specific stories with some of the kids but maybe we'll way til I'm able to get some good pictures of them up since their faces are the loveliest!
Feel free to throw us some emails! Let us know what you want to see!
Until next time.... :)
Shakin' & Bakin'
We have been running around like crazy trying to do allll the things so we will give ya'll a quik recap!
So last weekend Beans went to Sihanoukville Friday and hung out on the beach all weekend! Amy made a very rainy trek to a wildlife preserve/zoo Randa our amazing Lebanese friend in Phnom Penh and then joined everyone on the beach Saturday!
The beach was seriously the best thing ever! The water was clear blue and warm and the beaches were fairly clean with beautiful sand and restaurants all along beach side so you can sit in chairs on the sand and eat and hang out! We also went on a boat tour of several islands on Saturday which included snorkeling in a coral reef and a fresh grilled chicken sand which on one of the islands which was maybe one of my favorite meals so far (yes western food!!!)
Overall it was a very relaxing weekend full of sun, water, rain, yummy food and good company! I (Amy) had off Monday and went to shoot allll the guns with this amazing guy Daniel. I met him in College Station right before we both happened to be heading off to South East Asia! He is teaching in Thailand til October and got to come visit for the weekend and of course being a former Corp guy at Texas A&M he HAD to shoot all the ridiculous guns!
As for this coming weekend we are hoping to go on an elephant trek in Mondul Kiri which we are so pumped about!!! Here is the place we are looking at booking it through just to give you an idea http://www.naturelodgecambodia.com/ .
Okay enough with the funsy things lets get down to business! Heres a quick update on what we have been up to with the majority of our time here!
Amy- I have had an amazing couple of days working with my supervisor on revising and editing their Annual Report. This is a huge deal for any company but especially for non-profits like CVCD this is basically advertising to their donors and potential donors. The hard part about having an office full of Cambodians is translating and creating documents and communications that effectively convey in English what they want to say. This is where I have had a blast researching CVCD's different partner organizations and other non-profits annual reports and digging into what messages they are trying to convey to their donors and pulling the best of all these reports into CVCD's so we can better appeal and communicate the amazing accomplishments for the year. So deets aside it has been an amazing opportunity and growing experience to learn how to create this report and effectively show our donors who and what their money has helped!
Beansses- I am in love with my precious kids and have been looking forward to going to work every day and working with them! I've seen little bits of improvements and I'm remembering most of their names now and have a decent idea of where they are all at and what they need to be working! It also helped that I found all their papers and documentation from past therapists of their diagnoses and what they enjoy and were capable of back around November. Also several of the kids are getting new wheel chairs so I've gotten to go with them to get fitted and figure out what they need in a chair which is fun and is giving me a chance to see the prosthetics clinic a little farther down the street from the orphanage. I think the kids are definitely getting more comfortable around me and I am around them so we've settled into a good routine and I get to see the kids smile all the time which is the best site in the world!! I could go on and on with specific stories with some of the kids but maybe we'll way til I'm able to get some good pictures of them up since their faces are the loveliest!
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| Randa, & our deer friend who followed us around! |
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| The gorgeous beach at Sihankville |
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| Boat tour to all the islands with some of our other volunteer friends! ( Jennifer (only half of her),Corina, Chase, Emma, and Emily) |
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| Our girl friends Emma & Corina with us on the beach after dinner! |
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| Amy and Daniel with the ridiculous big guns! |
Until next time.... :)
Shakin' & Bakin'
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