We made it!

We are in Cambodia! Our travels went right as planned, and we and all of our belongings arrived safely here.  We were greeted at the airport by some of our coworkers and program participants.  It was really comforting and exciting to walk out of the airport into a foreign land and be met with cheers and hugs.  We have enjoyed our first few days here and, much to our delight, we have been inundated with language and culture.  Any worries we had of not being exposed to the language are gone, and we plan on going tomorrow to sign up for language school.  Since we plan on making these first few months a time of intense language learning, we will be stopping our communication briefly so that we can focus on spending as much time practicing Khmer (the language of Cambodia) as possible.  We will take a break from our blog but look forward to updating you in a few months about what we’ve experienced and learned.  Today in Khmer church, I understood 7 words:  16, 11, 7, thank you, yes, hello, and Amen.  Hopefully by the next time I write, I will understand a lot more.  Don’t worry, although we hope to improve our Khmer, we still plan on continuing to communicate with you in English! 

-Katy