Final Update on Cambodia

I am leaving for my long-awaited trip in just under 2 months (1 month and 2 weeks to be exact)! I bought my plane tickets, so I'm definitely on my way. I decided to stop in Bangkok on the way home, and I'm really excited about that as well.
I received my tentative itinerary and I'm going to be teaching in the Khmer Help Khmer school in the mornings and in the Pagota school with young monks in the afternoons. It's going to be an amazing experience, for sure!
Thank you to everyone who has donated - I'm almost at $900! If you have been meaning to donate, I'm trying to get it all together by the first week of June, and if you know of anyone who might be interested in helping me out, please forward this to them, too :) www.firstgiving.com/abbiemood

THANK YOU ALL!!!

Groundhogs!

Daisy and I were walked at Peter's Canyon on Monday and she was very distracted and kept turning around. One of the times we stopped I turned around and looked with her, didn't see anything, so started to walk again. Then my eagle eyes spied a little animal by the side of the trail. Daisy is a little less observant and didn't have a clue, but I thought it was a bird. Upon further inspection I realized that it was a groundhog poking it's head out of it's hole! So I took a step closer and he hid back down and we walked on. I turned back to look after we had passed and he popped his head back up and was watching us. I have never actually seen a groundhog peeking out of his hole before, so I thought that was cool enough. But then I saw ANOTHER one a few feet later! No wonder Daisy was paranoid, the groundhogs were watching...

I didn't get a picture, but this person did...
www.flickr.com/photos/9511470@N06/2488019875

My Yoga Practice

I was at yoga today and as we started, I began to feel like my body was telling me to go a different way then the instructor was leading it. It then struck me (and occupied me for the rest of the time) that I am ready to develop my own home practice. Then I thought about how I don't know nearly enough about yoga poses and all that, so I need to go to classes to learn more. THEN I thought about teacher training and how teacher training would help me do both - learn and deepen my own practice. Maybe I am finally ready to start a yoga teacher training program!!!! Now I just have to find/choose one...