It was fantastic! Almost 600 Khmer children from local public schools were the hub of it all.

They carried their puppets along the riverside and concluded with a native dance in a hotel's riverside garden front. The parade was the result of a joint effort of many NGOs. Talk about a cooperative effort! It was amazing and a delight to watch!!!

Parade by Local Children :D

The clip available to view above was the opening puppet of a frog man dance followed by a shuttle in outer space.

Anyu Home (sidenote)

Anyu has returned home to Takam Village!!!
Praises!!! Praises!!!
After over 3 months in Phnom Penh he finally reached the point of recovery where he is able to live in his rural home village. His family and friends were excited to see him,
and vice-versa.
We have a nurse, Carol, volunteering for 3 months. She's going to help with his check ups and medication now that he's home.

Side-Saddle: Day 12

My exposure to land village life has been confined to one, Takam.

The differences are as massive as the similarities between it and the floating village,

Choang Kneas, on which I teach. Although both are stricken by poverty,

the floating village seems to be more productive with the supply of fish and water life.

Side-Saddle: Day 11

At times, dance results in laughter!

I am delighted that song and dance are part of our existence!!!

Side-Saddle: Day 10

First, I would like everyone to acknowledge my success on making it through one third of my thirty days of Side-Saddle blogs!!! What an accomplishment for the month of February. By the time September shows itself, I might have the whole blogging thing under control. We'll see.

Last week I taught the children the letter T. One of the words they learned was telephone. So of course, we made telephones. We had a blast taking turns calling each other. I'll confess that our conversations were bilingual, however.