Today! Today! Today!, what can I say about today? Well today was the first morning back to Golden Gate Hotel in Phnom Penh. We started it off with a good breakfast and a phone call home. Later we visited an old school that became apart of the Cambodian Holocaust. It was popular for its cruel interrogations towards the Cambodians to get answers for Pol Pat. Its called S-21. Some of the rooms were so extreme and graphic that we had to take breaks in between. At the end of the tour we got the chance to meet a survivor and buy one of the books. After being interrogated for many Hours the prisoner were told they can go join their family. They took a train many miles away from the camp site to the killing fields. At the killing fields they dug holes and were told they were for crops but at 6pm when the music stopped the same holes became their last resting place. Children and babies were brought to a special tree were their heads were smashed against the trunk and thrown into a hole nearby. For me watching a documentary called Year Zero and actually being at the actual place took a toll on all of us. The cruelty of man can be unpredictable at times.
Learning and visiting the Cambodian history we needed an uplift so we went to a calming boat ride, lunch and later did some shopping for some gifts in gratitude for our family friends and churches .
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