gotta keep this one short (okay, guys, i can hear the sighs of relief from here...)

but the reason i haven't been posting is 'cuz last week i moved to chantha's, and now i'm in battambang province. the government is conducting a survey (one of m,any) of reproductice health facilities across the country, so i tagged along with chantha to this province, which is a four hour drive north from phnom penh. can i just say...the countryside is a-mazing. there's no way to properly describe the lush greenness that is the cambodian countryside, so i'll try to post some pics when i get back to the phnom penh (tho even the pics don't really do it justice).

each day, chantha and a team of other interviewers drive out to a clinic or hospital, and i just can't get enough of what i see...i just kinda stare out of the windows, at a loss for words. it's been awesome, though one time, and it took us an hour and a half to drive 25 km 'cuz the road conditions were so bad. also, i've had some interesting bathroom experiences ('nuf said).

there's a lot more i need to write, but i'll save that for later...just one thing. the drivers we've had have been pretty crazy. our taxi driver who brought us to battambang was an incessant honker, who, possibly because of all his honking, was able to avoid the occasional cow, dog, or pig that would wander onto the road...however, there were two poor chickens that were so absorbed with something on the road that must've been yummy, 'cuz they never knew what hit them...