update

not too much has been going on, i was sick for the week after i got back from kep and didnt really get out of bed. since then i have been catching up on work, we just finished our rough draft of our children's rights manual. im doing a lot of reading - am trying to read a bunch of kurt vonnegut books (so far: breakfast of champions, cats cradle, mother night and player piano), and also tom robbins books. am currently distracted by the poisonwood bible though. all of which has nothing to do with cambodia.

phnom penh is feeling like home now, as much as it still gets exhausting to be constantly harassed by moto drivers... "moto" "moto" "moto"... its a constant chorus as i walk down the street. just the general staring is still off-putting. saw a kid on the back of a moto attached to an IV which was interesting. its raining almost every day now, on and off, but its much cooler which i like.

we had a guest speaker last week who works with the defense support section of the united nations assistance to the khmer rouge tribunals. it was very interesting, definitely the kind of work that i would like to get involved in - but as the guest speaker said - international criminal law is very in and glamorous right now in the legal world so its hard to get into.

went out on canada day and sang karaoke. cambodians love karaoke. for some reason we were hanging out with a cambodian movie star and he was very into it. every other song was khmer pop music. having a bbq tomorrow for july 4th. otherwise the office is quiet this week because the other half of the interns is in Kep doing what we were doing two weeks ago.