Graduate School Here I Come!!

I got in!

Starting in September, I will be studying International Community Economic Development at SNHU. I will be taking scary courses like Accounting, Economics, and Financial Management, and instead of writing a thesis, I have to implement a CED project. And one of the best parts is that I get to stay in Montreal! It is a weekend program; I go to the New Hampshire campus once a month for three days and do the bulk of my work from home.

You can check out more about the program here: http://www.snhu.edu/146.asp.

Charlie took me out for a celebratory dinner last week!

We're back!!

So, it's about time we start writing our blog again. If I wait until things settle down and get less stressful, I'll never blog again! I PROMISE one of us will write every week... if we don't, you have our permission to yell at us (or at Charlie, he can take it!)

We finished up our time in Thailand and left Phil in Bangkok the day before he headed back to Canada. We had such a great trip with him. Of course, the day we left him, he got robbed and missed his flight (Murphy's law, right?) But overall, the three of us had a blast together.

The night we left Chang Mai was my birthday, so we went out for
celebratory sushi just before catching our 10-hour bus ride back to Bangkok.

We then spent 10 days in Phnom Penh, seeing all our friends, saying goodbye again, wrapping things up at Chab Dai and meeting with Helen to discuss our first steps into starting Chab Dai Canada. We spent a lot of time with our very dear friends, Ray and Christine Cantwell, and Amie and Steve Gosselin. Both couples are also from Canada (Ontario and Alberta, respectively) and they became such good friends over our short months in Cambodia. We will miss them very much. They loved us and challenged us and had a big impact on our lives. Also, Ray and Christine introduced us to Settlers of Catan and Bohnanza, and we will be forever grateful!!

(From left to right: Amie, Christine, Steve, Ray and Charlie) After eating at our favourite Chinese Noddles place, we would sit at one the smoothie stands and have the most delicious milkshakes ever! If you're ever in the area, try the soursop!

Now we're home and busy as ever! As many of you know already, I was just accepted into the M.Sc. program at Southern New Hampshire University. I will be studying International Community Economic Development. It's a distance learning program so we will be able to stay in Montreal and I will travel down to campus once a month for three days. Charlie will be staying with his job at Backcheck and we will both be working on establishing Chab Dai Canada in the next couple years. It will be a busy time!

Sorry for the delay of this post, but we're back on now and planning to stay a while!