We presented our entire trips this morning in our groups. It was amazing and definitely what I needed to start my own personal healing process. I have to write a lengthy research paper about transitional justice in Cambodia. I am excited for the challenge. 

I was reading the end of a book called Velvet Elvis just now and came across this quote which really shed positive light and put into words many of my thoughts after the trip.

"Ultimately our gift to the world around us is hope. Not blind hope that pretends everything is fine and refuses to acknowledge how things are. But the kind of hope that comes from staring pain and suffering right in the eyes and refusing to believe that this is all there is. It is what we all need-- hope that comes not from going around suffering but from going through it."