Another Workshop at the Cambodiana

Greetings!

We hadn’t planned on this and hadn’t been invited, but since we got a glimpse of the agenda and began to grasp the significance of the end of the LWF Cambodia Country Strategy 2003 to 2008, we thought we might join in.

Yesterday, we began our day by assembling a mock-up of Marcus’s History of LWF Cambodia. Mock-up in hand, we headed out to a recommended printing house. They needed time to think about it, so we left it with them and headed off to the Cambodiana Hotel–hotel of the infamous buffet lunches. 

We thought we’d cherry-pick sessions at the workshop–maybe hear about some of the most significant changes accomplished over the six years of the Country Strategy; sit in on something about the accompaniment program (post-graduation) in Kandal and Takeo provinces; maybe listen to some discussion of how all this will shape the Country Strategy for 2009 to 2014. After one session, we were hooked. We arrived in the conference room this morning and got a workshop package, a nametag, and an invitation to tonight’s celebratory dinner. 

Now, we’ve just arrived home from dinner on a boat on the Mekong, followed by the inevitable…dancing to loud music. No LWF Cambodia celebration would be complete without it. 

So, much overfed, we head to bed and will be up and out a bit earlier than usual for the third and final day of the “LWF Cambodia End of Country Strategy 2003-08 Evaluation Workshop.”

More stories to follow, but for now, 
good night!

Margaret (and Marcus, too)