Today is my final official day at Maxima. I say official because I have decided to stay in Phnom Penh for the next three months and am already scheduled to come back in three days. And although I will continue to work with Kiva's marketing team in San Francisco, today is the last official day of my Kiva fellowship.
Throughout my fellowship I've been tickled by the trend at Maxima of all of the girls wearing bows in their hair. I remembered looking wistfully at the American Girl catalog when I was 8 or 9, dreaming of owning one of my own. And today, on the last day of my fellowship, my dream has come true. The 22-year-old accountant at work has presented with a pink, rhinestone-bedecked satin bow which I was promptly urged to put in my hair. (I suspect they think it will advance my chances of marriage.)
I know I haven't updated this blog in a while but only because I've been working so hard! I've sent everyone that contributed more that $50 to my fellowship a postcard and I swear I wrote something different on each one. (Sending the small craft items are off the table until I am back in the US as they cost more that $15 to send each one because they only offer airmail). I have a lot more to say about Kiva, my fellowship and Cambodia so watch for more now that I have a little more time on my hands.
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