I hope your doing well. Kelcy and Ben, I'm glad you received an answer to you prayers. That's got to be such a big relief! Also, I know I said this last week, but Chantelle! I can't believe your call comes on Saturday! I thought I would tell you all my guesses: 1) Argentina or 2) Holland or 3) California Spanish speaking. I have a lot more in mind, but I thought I would stick to 3 to be fair!
This week was a little busy because of school. I had two tests, a presentation, and a big research paper due. I got down to work though and everything ended up being fine. I didn't get great scores on my tests, but I'm still relatively pleased with them. It's about what I was expecting.
I've had (am having) a four day weekend which is really nice. It was an unexpected break due to the King's funeral. I have to say, there are some advantages to having a royal family! We had Friday off because of a big procession/parade they were doing for the King and then I'll have Monday off for when they actually cremate him. On Friday I woke up and made breakfast although it was a slight failure, but it still tasted decent so that was good. We then went and watched the procession at about 11am. It was super hot and tiring standing out in the sun. We only stood out there for about and hour, but all of the Khmer's were sitting/standing out there ALL morning. I don't know how they did it. The procession itself was kind of cool. They mostly just had about every government worker and military personnel walking down the street. They also had some hill tribe people, monks, and floats with Buddha's, etc. Then at the very end they had a huge float carrying the King's casket. There must have been hundreds of thousands of people walking in the procession. I tried not to think of the fact that the money that went into it probably could have fed the entire country! No, I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised. All of the major big streets were closed and everyone had work off. We mostly stayed inside. The rest of the day I just did homework and yoga. All 3 of us watched a movie that night which was kind of nice.
Saturday was a really fun day! Dad really wanted to take a preparation day, so we spent the ENTIRE day together!!!! Yeah!! I tried to soak up every minute of it since it's going to be a while until that happens again. This month will be a busy one with traveling for them. After getting all ready, we drove to Sine Sok to try to find a fun little craft store. We didn't end up finding the place though, so we just drove back. We then went out to lunch at a really yummy natural foods cafe. It hit the spot so well!! We played some games in the afternoon. I made some yummy treats (when has a weekend ever gone by without me making something?!) :). After dinner we went to a movie. Yes, we actually went OUT to a movie THEATRE!!! It's been so long since I've been to a movie. The movie was called The Impossible. It's a true story about a family on vacation when the horrific tsunami hit Thailand. It started out good, but then when the tsunami hit it became too graphic for me. I was not expecting it to show so much people being hurt during the actual hit of the storm. I honestly felt like I was going to pass out. At one point I had to put my head between my knees. Eventually we ended up leaving because I just couldn't handle it. I just started balling as we walked to the car. I have never been so affected by a movie in my entire life. I've never had a movie traumatize me so bad. We sat in the car for a little bit and talked and I was able to calm down. It wasn't the great ending to the night that we were expecting, but oh well.
Other exciting news: mom drove me to church today!! I think it's incredible that she can drive in such nutso traffic!
I hope you all have a great week! I really love this quote by Pres. David O. McKay, "Some of us look forward to a time in the future-salvation and exaltation in the world to come-but today is part of eternity." So true!!
I love you!
Kenzie
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