Almost done!

Since it's been a while, I figured I'd write a quick update to let you all know that we're still doing well!

Last week we continued teaching our English classes (and computer classes for Mike), as well as going out to the village every afternoon. It was hard to be finished at the village Friday knowing that we weren't coming back this week, but we're increasingly finding hope for that place in the work that the long-termers are doing here in Cambodia.

Saturday we got to visit a silk production place outside of town called Artisans of Angkor. We got to hold a silk worm and see the process from worm to finished product. It was really cool, and that company is doing a lot of cool things, training women from villages and opening village workshops for them to make high-quality silk goods to make enough money to live well (enough food, security from the costs of sickness, etc.). A big part of changing the realities of trafficking here in Cambodia have to come through both education and economic change.

This week we are working more at the White Doves Center, and teaching our classes. Emily is teaching dance to the woman at the WDC, which has been a great experience. This morning we went for a prayer bike ride with Martin, the director of White Doves, an amazing Norwegian man who has been here for something like 8 years. He showed us various places where prostitution happens in Siem Reap, from a big nightclub to a little alley of shacks. It was good to have visuals of those kinds of places as we pray, and there's a lot of hope for those situations in the work that a number of organizations are doing here in Cambodia, from YWAM to IJM.

Anyway, tomorrow is our last day in Siem Reap, and on Thursday we take a 10-hour bus ride to Sihanoukville for debrief. We're a bit sad to say goodbye to this city, but debrief will be a good time as we start to discuss what our experiences here mean for us. Then we'll be home, one week from today!

-Steven