inTravel Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n“From riding my bike to work and being chased in the street by smiling children screaming \u201cHELLO!!!\u201d to seeing those same children play in a sewage canal around the corner from my house, my experience in Cambodia was a total emotional roller coaster. Every day I would think that I\u2019d seen it all, and the next day something else would happen that would make me say the same thing.”<\/p>\n
My favorite; “Lauren, what made you decide to pick up and leave Paris?”<\/p>\n
\u201cI was working as a legal assistant and wanted a breath of fresh air from high society and the corporate world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00a0 Volunteering abroad is full of\u00a0highs and lows. Choosing to do that in Cambodia, one of the least developed countries in the world, has it\u2019s own set of issues. Seeing the body pits from the genocide\u00a0by the Khmer Rouge regime, to the ever cheerful village children, Lauren Dickerson (not her pictured above)\u00a0sits down for an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2562,2572,1405],"tags":[273,1064,1071],"yoast_head":"\n
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