The countdown has begun. I'll be home in 20 days!

The weather has become amazingly beautiful. It's been in the high 70s and low 80s with a nice, cool breeze all the time. Of course it gets like this 3 weeks before leaving. If only the weather had been like this the whole time, I think it would have made a huuuge difference on my perspective here. That sounds weird, but honestly--when you are always soaked in sweat as we were the first 2 months, the uncomfortableness gets in the way of enjoying things to the fullest extent. Not to say that I haven't enjoyed everything--of course I have--but never feeling clean got annoying.

It's actually almost cold here today/tonight. I'm in jeans and a sweatshirt! It's strange that 75 degrees feels "cold"... Winter in Baltimore is probably going to be very hard to get used to.

In other news. Kasey and I are traveling to Cambodia next weekend. We decided to go a weekend before the rest of our program friends go because we don't want to deal with an entire group of people trying to travel together. Far too stressful by our standards. Besides, we're going to spend the extra money and fly to and from Cambodia, rather than take a bus or train. We heard that the buses and trains are very unsafe--no thank you. We'll be flying into Phnom Penh, staying there for 1-2 days, then taking a boat to Siem Reap and staying there for 2 days and flying out of there with a different airline.

I'm extremely excited to finally see Angkor Wat. We're also going to see the famous killing fields in Phnom Penh--called Choeung Ek--where almost 20,000 people were killed during the late 1970s due to genocide.