So I am officially a peace corps volunteer! We were sworn in yesterday by Piper Campbell, a really cool person and the DCOM (Deputy Chief of Mission), which is sort the deputy ambassador. Currently, Cambodia doesn't have an ambassador. Last week, the Senate took a break from bailing out financial institutions long enough to confirm six new ambassadors. So by the end of the month Carol Randley will present her credentials to the King and we will have an ambassador again. This will give Piper a break to travel around Cambodia, which she hasn't really been able to since she was busy representing America. All the new volunteers are either in Phnom Penh or Battambang for a day before we go into lockdown for the next 90 days. Peace Corps doesn't let us leave the province for the first 90 days after we get to our permanent site.

On another note, anyone with T Mobile, please email your numbers! I have heard that I can text T Mobile in the states from my phone here. I want to try it out.

I think we're all a little nervous about isolation when we get out to site. And yes, this would kind of suck if we had joined the Peace Corps to hang out in a foreign country for a couple of years. But we came to help Cambodia develop itself, which is kind of hard to do from a guesthouse in Battambang.

Although there is a great deal to be said for eating an ice cream sundae on the bank of Tonle Sap. I will miss the summer camp feel of training, but it's time to move on and be a grown up and stuff.

Tomorrow morning my director wants me at school at 7am. This means that I will probably be done by 8 and can go buy a hammock. I really like hammocks a lot. My new house doesn't have one, so that will be my first order of business. That's about it for now, I am kind of between homes, so there really isn't anything new to report. but when there is, you will be the first to know.