I am connected to the World!! My co-teacher (an ambitious history teacher turned English teacher b/c he knows the most English in the school) thought I was bored so he gave me a world wide broad band radio!! I'm not going to lie, things are pretty slow these days, waiting for books and supplies to find their way down from Phnom Penh, waiting for the rains to come, reading a ton of hemmingway and newsweek... with that busy of a schedule you would think a radio would be too much. After a whole day perusing the channels I was devastated that there was not a single snippit of the language I am most familiar with. I am pretty sure every dialect of chinese, korean, japanese, thai and cambodian was accounted for but at the end of the day I just gave up and cursed the cheap merchandise that it is. The next morning I flick on the volume in hopes of some non-kareoke khmer music. It takes me a minute to realize there is the beautiful sound of English coming through the speaker! BBC was on and I glued the tiny radio to my ear for the rest of the morning content with listening to floods in north-western Europe, the connection of African and Asian elephants and the NBA betting scandal. I really didn't care what news it was... I was informed!!! Now it is my constant companion I wake up to in the morning, you could call it my international lover. Listening to world news watching the village wake up and the night monsoon rains evaporate a warm cup of tea and the thought.. what am I going to do today?