(dramatic classic music)
- Good morning everyone.
Kate and Traitens checking in here from Cambodia.
I'm gonna be taking you around my day today.
It's gonna be busy one 'cause I have a lot
of classes and it is the end of the school year
so things are a little bit hectic.
Looking forward to showing you my day.
Throughout the day if you have questions about Cambodia,
and you would like to know more.
Please let me know.
Send some comments or anything in my way
and I'll be sure to address them.
(mumbles) I forgot to tell them about myself.
You're right.
My name is Kate and I moved here from the United States.
I was living in Colorado last year
but I'm originally from (mumbles).
And I am loving every minute of Cambodia.
South East Asia is amazing.
(wind whirling)
Here we are at school.
This is my classroom.
Unfortunately all of these posters,
gotta be taken down real soon
'cause it's almost the end of the school year.
But it's a pretty nice place to spend everyday.
So today is a little bit
of a slower day at school.
Because all my students are actually finished their finals.
So it's just end of the year fun times.
Today (foreign language).
This is my school you can see the football
or soccer pitch down there
and the basketball court over there.
This is the high school wing up here on the third floor.
It's pretty nice.
All open air because everyday,
it's wonderfully warm in Cambodia.
Hey I've gotten some questions,
which is just great.
I'm really looking forward to reading more of those.
Legendariann asked about the cost of living in Cambodia.
Which is really affordable.
Because it is a developing nation,
everything is really cheap.
Which is really nice.
Only things that are expensive,
are the imported things
and some of the more expensive luxury items.
Which happen to be produced here
because Cambodia has a lot of factories.
Cara Maria asked me how/why I choose
to come to Cambodia.
Which is a great question.
I put a lot of thought into my decision
to move here, me and Josh my boyfriend
who moved here with me.
Both put in a tone of time and effort
to making sure it was perfect.
Big deciding factor in why we choose Cambodia,
was because we felt like it was the place
that we could do the most good.
We didn't wanna move somewhere
where we wouldn't be able to help people.
And helping people is something
that's really important to me
as a former alumni of (mumbles)
and just had general humanity.
Everyone I'm home from school.
It was a busy day today,
we were learning about graduation
which is happening next week for my students.
I do teach grade 12
so they're gonna be graduating high school this year.
Very exciting.
A lot of people responded yes to my poll
to saying that they wanted
to hear more about getting a four legged friend,
here in Cambodia.
So I thought I would spend some time
and tell you more about my little friend Traiten.
Here he is.
We adopted Traiten here in Cambodia.
He is a rescue, he was actually abandoned at (mumbles)
because he only has three legs.
Adopting animals here is really easy
and a great thing to do.
Because there are so many animals, cats and.
The US and Cambodia actually have an understanding
so if you do adopt an animal,
it's pretty easy to bring them back.
As long as you've gotten them chipped
and made sure that everything is set in terms
of their vaccination.
I especially recommend getting a cat here,
mostly because they're really have low maintenance
and they take care of household pets.
Like cockroaches or mice,
you definitely don't want in your apartment.
Getting Traiten was one of the best decisions
that we've made here and we definitely don't regret it.
This is the view from my apartment.
You can see the cute little street that we live on,
there is always kids playing down there.
And the next houses, next doors duos.
It's a good street, we really like this neighborhood.
It's in a Russian market neighborhood.
Kittttia just sent me a message,
asking me if the apartments allow cats here?
I actually haven't seen any apartments
that don't allow animals.
And if they don't say anything,
usually it's cool if you just bring home a cat.
That's what we did.
I really do love being at home.
We've made it a lot of progress
to make our home really look nice,
in the way we want it to.
But I am heading out.
I'm meeting Josh for dinner
and we're gonna grab some drinks.
It's at one of our favorite,
rooftop bars in in the neighborhood.
So I'll show you guys that.
Alright we've arrived.
We're at Sundown Social Club.
One of my favorite bars in town
because it's got a great view of the market
and really close to my house.
They also have really great cocktails here.
I'll show you around.
(soul music)
Everybody I'm heading to bed soon
but before I do let me know if you have any last questions.
Shoot them to me in a direct message,
and I'll be sure to answer them before I go to sleep.