For the first six weeks I was placed in Phnom Penh, the captial city of Cambodia. During my study term I lived with a Chistian host family, went on a couple of field trips, had afternoon lectures at an NGO forum, and studied Khmea at the Royal University of Phnom Penh. The following pictures document my time in the capital.

 

-- Family --

           

 

My city family and I lived on the south side of the capital in a small house with two levels. Sophia was my niece, Seiha my sister, Pisit my brother, and there was Ma. Everybody in my family except for Ma spoke perfect Englsih, and I was very greatful for that. We ate very well, with meals of rice, some kind of meat, and fruit. On Sundays we went to church where Pisit was the youth pastor. Seiha worked at the MCC Cambodia office. Sophia aged from three months to six months by the time I left Cambodia.

-- Angkor Wat --

              

 

Week four we visited the ancient temple ruins of Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, in the north west corner of the country.

 

-- Killing Fields --

From the years of 1975 to 1975 the Khmer Rouge rulled the people of Cambodia, slaughtering thousands. We visited the killing fields, a mass grave site for many thousand bodies.