Steven's Journal, February 21, 2011
After all of the youth woke up and learned that the air conditioner didn’t work on our bus, we decided to walk to the restaurant. When we were walking back we talked about how much fun we were going to have on our first day with the kids and help built the fence. We arrived at the village where the kids lived at and introduce ourselves. Out of all of us I probably looked the most nervous introducing myself. After the introduction the youth split up into 3 groups to play arts and crafts activities for the kids to play. 
They made diamonds on crosses, bracelets out of pipe cleaners, played tag and kickball. Later on half of us helped built the fence around the church while the rest of us stayed with kids and then we switched. The Cambodian kids sang for us and even taught us how to do some of their dances. They also taught us how to count to 10 in their language, khamer. Everybody was shocked when we learned that they knew how to count to ten in English. That just shows that many countries learn different languages at an early age. We also showed them how to do the hokey pokey and hand games like numbers. But eventually all the fun had to come to an end and we all said our goodbyes. At the hotel we tried to sort all of the school supplies and other goodies to give to the village at the end of the week. It is very amazing and different to play games and learn another language of another culture.
After all of the youth woke up and learned that the air conditioner didn’t work on our bus, we decided to walk to the restaurant. When we were walking back we talked about how much fun we were going to have on our first day with the kids and help built the fence. We arrived at the village where the kids lived at and introduce ourselves. Out of all of us I probably looked the most nervous introducing myself. After the introduction the youth split up into 3 groups to play arts and crafts activities for the kids to play. 
They made diamonds on crosses, bracelets out of pipe cleaners, played tag and kickball. Later on half of us helped built the fence around the church while the rest of us stayed with kids and then we switched. The Cambodian kids sang for us and even taught us how to do some of their dances. They also taught us how to count to 10 in their language, khamer. Everybody was shocked when we learned that they knew how to count to ten in English. That just shows that many countries learn different languages at an early age. We also showed them how to do the hokey pokey and hand games like numbers. But eventually all the fun had to come to an end and we all said our goodbyes. At the hotel we tried to sort all of the school supplies and other goodies to give to the village at the end of the week. It is very amazing and different to play games and learn another language of another culture.
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