Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Tuesday, Day 24: I wanna be like Angie and Brad Pitt and buy a bunch of babies that ain't never had shit...

Another tired morning as Borpha, Sothida, and I slogged off to RUPP for meetings and work. I skipped coffee. Lesson learned... for now. It ended up being a pretty productive day though and I felt good about projects before we left. And, sitting in the office amid to-do's, I got to hear my sweet boyfriend's voice for the first time since I left North America. It was a brief Skype interlude as the connection was slow and made everything I said to him come through in robotic triplicate. I told him it was just like at home - me repeating my stories over and over and over again. I did get to introduce him to my friends in the office though and chat a little bit via skype text. Funny, it was our very first online chat... there was a communication medium we hadn't explored yet! Maybe next time we will get to use the video function... shameless plug... :) XO. We left RUPP to visit with a daycare and before/after school program for children living with or affected by HIV. They are connected with the Soviet Friendship Hospital... and funded by Brangelina. Actually, it's named after their adopted Cambodian boy, Maddox. Anyway, among the very cute kiddos running around the grounds and singing in class we had a nice little meeting with the program director about social services and the potential of integrating social work into other practice centers of the hospital. The conversation was... not so productive. It's interesting to talk with folks who USE social workers but don't know how to relate to inquiries about the use of social workers in other medical settings.. sigh. Best part, on the tuk tuk ride home we learned about the time that Tracy was a statistician for a class action suit against corporate giants... and the time she was the jury foreperson for a labour dispute case... and she was the plaintiff for a sea lion in the Puget Sound... she really is cool. Tracy and I dropped of the gang and went to a cafe for a lychee mint freeze and a chocolate macaroon. We outlined a data entry and management guide - how to use SPSS, etc. and then a nice walk back to the guesthouse. Sothida, Borpha, and I took a walk around the neighborhood looking for dinner and made our way to a Khmer restaurant. We got a bottle of Pastis on the way home and got cozy with the girls and a bad slasher film. SO much diversity for one short day... maybe too much. 

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