I had and still have certain things I planned to accomplish on this trip. I've only been here for 4 days but I feel like it's been a year. I had no idea what was ahead when I signed on for this.

I've wanted to go to Cambodia and Vietnam for many years, since the wars took place there. It was during that time that I began to see and consider a world that was larger than my own.

Since I've been here I've met interesting people, eaten delicious food, and visited extraordinarily beautiful temples and art historical museums. I've also visited the Landmine Museum, seen terrible poverty, and heard many stories about an unresponsive government. I had the opportunity to visit a Primary School this afternoon. It's a government school funded mostly by private donations.

I leave tomorrow to go to Vietnam. I'm not finished what I need to do in Cambodia. I don't know what that will be, but I've fallen in love with it.

Angkor Wat at Sunrise

From a window at Angkor Wat

Re-Building Angkor Wat

Old French Market

Today's Lunch, dessert

Visited a Primary School - This wall of plastic bottles filled with trash was the entrance to a primary school. I got to draw with some beautiful Cambodian children.

Visited the Landmine Museum - Image painted by a young boy whose leg was recently blown off by a land mine.

Images of the Khmer Rouge Army at the Landmine Museum - These life sized sculptures of soldiers were created by kids living at a center set up for victims of land mine explosions.

Another one from the Landmine Museum.