Just a thought

I have hit the one month mark here in Cambodia...and despite the fact that I am loving being here my mind keeps drifting back to the US. I am not homesick, not yet at least, but I have never stayed out of the country longer than the summer and with the school year quickly approaching I keep feeling as if I am about to miss something. I keep thinking:

~ When I wake up on the 16th (15th for you all in the states) I will be going to language class...not the Teacher's Breakfast at WRHS

~ When I work with youth, it will be infrequent and not have the same ease as it did this past year

~ I will miss my first student going off to JWU (culinary school)

~ I will miss seeing my FCCLA students Senior portraits, last homecoming and Prom

~ Despite only being at Wheat Ridge for one year, it was a great experience...leaving was a very difficult decision...but one that turned out to be the best in the long run 

~ A month from now I will be placed in my permanent site...possibly far from any other volunteer. This experience will be vastly different from living with two of my best friends for the past year (with another one just a short distance away)

I would not trade this experience for another year at WRHS or at another school...but being here does not mean that my mind won't drift back to the states at times. I hope to keep everyone updated on what is going on in my life here in Cambodia...but in the same respect I hope people take the time to reflect on what is going on in their lives and share that with me as well.