Well, what does one do in their spare time in Cambodia.... The school magazine. Well actually Hope School did give me substantial time to work on this years magazine. Which, of course is like asking a pig to go and play in mud. Needless to say I also played to my hearts content in my own time. As I speak I am applying the finishing touches. I always suprise myself with some of the things that the students and I are able to create these days with software like Photoshop. Like the front cover below, now that was fun to create.... Oh the ghecko thing... well if you have ever been to Cambodia you would know that you see them everywhere. From memory the most I spotted at any one moment was in a restaurant at Siem Reap, 22 of them!
It does remind me that I enjoy graphic arts challenges and here in Cambodia there are plenty of opportunities to serve others with these and other skills. For example a calender and coffee table book I am contributing photographs too. Now this will be a real joy, to see my work proffessionally produced, in the process of serving others... you can't get much more satisfying call than that as a wannabe photographer... (Well unless it was a call from Nat Geo etc, but that is altogether a different ball park lol.)
I am really enjoying the diversity of this country. It has very little to keep oneself occupied... and yet it has abundant opportunities to genuinely serve others without feeling used -(a hard balance to find at times, but Missionaries would not last long without burning out otherwise.) I think I have said it before, the unity that comes through this, is pretty priceless.
God Bless
Fiona
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