Rich and Ronda Dolan

Dave Brockway was here teaching for 3 weeks. We appreciate his willingness to come and share part of himself with our students. We hope he had an enjoyable trip. This picture was taken when we were in Siem Reap. We went to the Cambodian Cultural Village. Dave thought it was funny that the designated a place for the foreigners to sit. It was probably because foreigners pay almost 3 times what the Khmers pay. Anyway, Dave found his place in the foreigner sitting. Rebekah is here and still speaks Khmer very well (it is a little on the disgusting side). Youth definitely has its benefits. Love you all! Ronda

OK. This picture has nothing to do with what I am going to tell you. I just wanted you to see part of what we see when we drive out of town. Now for the language problems...recently, we attended a wedding out our congregation between a Nigerian man and a Korean woman. They had requested our Khmer preacher to perform the ceremony. At the end of the service, our preacher said there was a song that he thought was great and appropriate. However...as we listened, it was all we could do not to crack up laughing. The song was "Please help me, I'm falling". The first line is "Please help me, I"m falling in love with you." Some of you may remember this old VERY country song. The problem comes in that the guy is singing to a girl that is NOT his wife...but he does have a wife and he is trying not to get into an affair. Not exactly the song for a wedding. Our preacher just thought it was a man telling a woman that he loved her, etc. It does show how easily ...

This past weekend, we took Dave Brockway to Siem Reap and Angkor Wat. I have put pictures of Angkor Wat and other temples on the blog before, so won't do that now. But in the afternoon, we did go to the Cambodian Cultural Village. Basically, you go from "village to village" and they show you some of their culture from different times in Cambodia and different customs. The first picture is of the peacock dance. At each place they had song and dances. We missed some of the shows as we started in the afternoon. At the end was a big finale about Cambodia history between 1150 - 1300. The last picture is from that show. We have enjoyed living in Cambodia and getting to know the people here; so it is interesting to see where they come from and different aspects of Cambodian life. Much love, Ronda