Chris' Journal, February 22, 2011

As our eyes opened at 5:00, we were still tired and really didn’t want to get up and go the village and work. Eventually we got ready, some walked to the restaurant and others (including me) went on the bus. Breakfast as usual was ok some people have seemed too got used to it and some still didn’t like it. Then we drove off to the work site/village and we broke sweat, we dug about 7 holes, we broke some rocks and we mixed some cement. It was pretty cool and interesting. It was something I wasn’t use to something to this. We then started playing with the kids for a second day as always, it was fun. We started making objects, shapes, fruits with the pipe cleaners and coloring. We then started playing games such as, blowing bubbles and the little kids popped them, we also played Frisbee and then we stated playing the Cambodian games. It was really fun, lots of smiles and laughter. We then had lunch which was actually good even though it was only peanut butter and jelly and our own snacks. We eventually left the bus after eating our snacks and the kids were singing and dancing and we then taught some of the kids our dance such as the hokey pokey. As the smiles and laughter continued it then had to end (Boooo!!).

After the kids we went to look at one of the wife’s houses and the village and looking at her house makes you think of how we Americans take things for granted it kind of brought frowns on our faces. Eventually we went home... Well back to the hotel and we were talking as usual on the way back to the hotel. When we got to the hotel we all chose to go to the internet café which was down the block and we stayed there for a hour which only cost us $1 which is pretty cheap in America lol. After the hour we went back to the hotel to shower and then came dinner. Finally we went to a new restaurant and to me the food was good but to others the food was bad. After dinner we went back to the hotel and had sad and glad moment that we do every night and we did devotion which reflects about our day and we all went to sleep eventually.