Overall Cambodia

The main things I will take away from practicum.

One of the biggest lessons I learned in Cambodia was that Cambodia doesn't need me at all to help them make a better community.  If anything I feel like I was more of a bother instead of a help to these people.  They would never say that, but as I watched OREDA perform its work I wondered why on earth they even let us come and volunteer.  They were solving world hunger left and right in great strides, but they were making a difference in the local villages they were helping.  They knew the problems and were seeking out solutions. 

That I have my life made.  I'm not the richest person at all in the states, but I have and can do so much more than the people of Cambodia its ridiculous.  I can't tell you how many times talking with my interpreter she would say something along the lines of we would like to go out and do this or have that, but its too expensive.  Everything that she mentioned was something that I have done or do on a normal basis back in the states.

The love these people have.  I could try and write it down, but its one of those things you can't explain the best with out experiencing yourself. 

Lastly it gave me reassurance to work in the inner city after I graduate.  I still have no idea what is truly going down once I graduate.  Seeing that the best outcome usually comes from members of a community, it just makes since that I would take my criminal justice and social work skills to a place in need of the United States.