Hey guys, my name is Weston this is my Cambodian home.
Welcome to Cambodia.
C'mon in and take a look.
It's not very big.
Maybe a little bit like a chicken coop, but hey, it serves a purpose.
Got all the area for my clothes. These are my shirts.
Of course we have the mosquito net.
You can't let those mosquitoes bite at night especially here in Cambodia.
You've got my host dad right there,
that's my host mom and my little host sister right there, and of course me.
This is the camera that I take out everywhere I go, along with one other little camera,
but this goes to all the weddings with me, goes to
every ceremony I go to, goes all the way down the village; down the road
because I have to take pictures of this experience.
It's great.
So we're in the family room right now,
sometimes we hang out in here and watch TV at night.
We don't watch a whole lot of TV, but late at night we do
These are the beds that my family sleeps on.
I'm right over the other side of the wall, that's where my bedroom is.
Alright, so we're downstairs right now on the bottom floor of our house.
Like I said it's a stilted
house so the house is raised by these stilts.
It's a great place for everyone to just kind of hang out,
have a meal.
We sometime eat at this table and sometimes my family is eating at this table right here.
We just sit on top of it and eat our meal.
And you can see there's hammocks.
Everyone's kind of chilling in a hammock right now.
It's very typical in Cambodian culture. Hammocks are everywhere; great to just relax
and hang out. It's nice
Nice and breezy. Nice and shady down here. You can stay out of the sun.
And just sort of hang out with the family and friends who come and visit. It's great.
You can see on the bottom of the house here there's all these different
numbers on the planks of wood, and all those numbers are important telephone numbers
for people in the community;
maybe certain police or taxi drivers.
Well, you guessed it, this is the bathroom
You can see my shoes sitting outside here.
It's typical to take your shoes off before you enter a building.
Might get a little bit of taking used to, but hey...
It's pretty easy to use
You just stand stand on those things, right on the side there,
And do your business. It's all good.
There really isn't any running water throughout the village in Cambodia here,
so my family has this really big blue container that we collect rainwater in.
And you can see the contraption on the top here with all these PVC pipes,
so when it rains, it all runs off the top of the roof
onto this next layer of tin,
and then into this.
You can swivel this back and forth and fill the blue container.
I'm privileged to be able to have an experience working as a Peace Corps Volunteer
in Cambodia because it's so interesting on so many different levels.
Not only are the people so incredibly friendly and willing to help
and teach me about their culture,
it's been a great way for me to teach them about American culture as well.
Cambodia, I think—I know—will always have a really special place in my heart.
I forever have family here for sure,
living with my host family, community members in the neighborhood and village.
Well you guys thanks for checking out my Cambodian house, but you gotta go.
It's time for me to take a nap.