The excitement of Khmer New year has taken the students of New Hope School captive. On this Friday, (which is their last school day before a one week vacation) books and lessons were set aside. The entire school: preschool, grade one, grade two, grade three, joined together to play games, and the air was full of...powder.

 The kids were running around with containers of baby powder throwing it and smearing it on each other. The air smelled strongly of that 'baby scent'. The children were doing 'surprise attacks' on each other, and on me. They were very happy to powder their 'teacher Jenny'. That stuff stings when it goes up the nose!

Then the water balloons came out, as if things weren't crazy enough! After a huge water fight we returned to the classroom where we played games and ate cookies. It was a great day of school!

This Sunday morning, Josh and I will go to Vietnam. We purchased one of those packages which includes a tour, hotel, food, etc. It has the potential to be a very funny cultural experience since the tour is all going to be in Khmer. On the tour, Josh and I may be the only English speaking people with a group of Cambodians. Josh and I know how to say some things, but our Khmer is very limited right now. But we really don't care if we don't understand the tour, we just want to see Vietnam and be taken to all the scenic places! If we went to Vietnam just on our own, we would have no idea where to go. We will be be in Vietnam from Sunday-Thursday, and on the following Monday school will begin again. By that time, we will only have one more month in Cambodia.

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