So the other day I decided to take a couple of friends to a new restaurant that a friend of mine introduced me to. The restaurant is a backpacker hang-out on the Boeng Kak Lake, and it has an amazing veggie burger and cheap Lao beer.
My main reason for going was to catch the lake [...]
Entries from November 2008
November 24, 2008
Boeng Kak Lake
November 20, 2008
The odds are 1 in 14 million
Wow, this Kiva world is small. The other day, while I was attending a United States Presidential election-day event with a good portion of the other expats in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, I noticed a woman just as teary-eyed as me as the results rolled in for President Elect Barak Obama. Both overwhelmed with emotion, we [...]
November 15, 2008
Kampong Cham Province
So, there is just so little time and so much to tell.
A couple of weeks ago, I had the the chance to visit CREDIT-MFI’s branch in Kampong Cham Province which is about 160 kilometers northeast of Phnom Penh, the capital of the Cambodia. I went to interview some Kiva clients, but also to check out [...]
November 15, 2008
Navigating Monsoon Season on Moto
I’ve been working with CREDIT-MFI as a Kiva Fellow for about two months, and I still feel like I’m getting my feet wet. CREDIT is fairly large with about 360 employees working throughout Cambodia in their 7 branches. I work closely with CREDIT’s two Kiva Coordinators, Sopheap and Vichet, at the head office in Phnom [...]
