Food and Running (not simultaneously)

It has been a pretty busy holiday for me so far! I began it with all of the other K6s celebrating Thanksgiving in Takeo town wrapping up our last part of training.  Some of the K5s cooked us a delicious Thanksgiving meal complete with turkey and mashed potatoes.  The best part of the whole meal was that there was not a grain of rice to be seen!  The photos show our Thanksgiving feast and also three other PCVs (Caitie, Amber, and Hayley) and me downing as much as possible.  

After returning from Siem Reap, I traveled up to Koh Kong for water festival, a big holiday in Cambodia.  Some other PCVs and our country director, Penny, and I spent some of the holiday on an island in the Gulf of Thailand.  Unfortunately I broke my camera and my ipod during this trip and so there is a spot for about a month where I don’t have any photos to show. 

After Thanksgiving I conquered the half marathon in Siem Reap.  My first half marathon and I ran the whole way! It was a great combination of hard and fun I decided that I’m going to run the half marathon in Sihanoukville in March.  Thank goodness the run was mostly in the shade, and it began after the sun rose and ended in the same spot with a great view of the temples. 

Another PCV, Amber let me borrow her iphone for the race so that I would have some music and a camera to capture the memories. Thanks Amber! Arnoldo and Laura join me in the photo above.

That’s a quick update for now, hope everyone has a great last few days according to the Mayans! See you on the other side. :P

xo-Amanda