Guess What!?! I can get calls for free! So feel free to call as much as you can afford. On Thursday I will be getting a phone. To call me, dial 011 855 17 790 246. The 011 part gets you out of the US, and 855 is the country code. You may have to call a few times before you get it right. In other news, we’ll be in Phnom Penh on the 23^rd, from there we go to the “hub site” in Kampong Chhnang for about ten days. After that we will go to one of three training villages to meet our host families. One more thing, the mailing address is updated:

PCV Brittany Rhodes

Peace Corps (K2)

Phnom Penh 3

Cambodia

Not to fear, anything sent to other address will find its way to me, it just might get there a little faster with this new one.

Other things of note, most vendors would rather be paid in US dollars than Cambodian riels, so no inconvenient currency conversion. All volunteers will be at least 50 miles from Phnom Penh when they get to their permanent site. We will be officially sworn in on October 4, 2008. We will come home on October 19, 2010.

It has really been a whirlwind. I forgot my phone, so I’m sorry I haven’t been able to call any of you. I just want you all to know that I love and miss you already. It might be while before you here from me, be assured that I’m eating strange food and sweating and learning a lot. I will get in touch as soon as possible.

Love again,

Brittany