Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Another one already!?!?!

Hey All!!!!
I'm aware that Team Cambodia here is probably the most enthusiastic bloggers at the moment, but we don't really have a choice in the matter since as of sunday we won't have internet for the rest of the month, so I feel we need to cram in some updated goodness while we can.

Updates on all our little misfortunes:
-the bag = still lost
-the airlines = not being very helpful
-everything else is better, but we do have a bit of a sore throat going around...

As for new stuff...
On saturday we got to tour the city. We got to see such spectacles as the National Palace, the National Gallery, a Buddhist Temple, and a monument on a hill that had tons of wild monkeys running around (still not exactly sure where we were for that one... I was distracted by a rather fat monkey when we were getting the explanation)
Thought for the day: If you're gonna see a city, travel in style. Get a Buddhist monk to show you around (one of our contacts... he was conveniently in the city that day)

Sunday was the Killing Fields and S21 prison... Difficult to describe the effect of those places, but suffice to say it was a heavy day.
Thought for the day: Genocide sucks... (please don't hate me for oversimplifying that one)

Yesterday and today we were back in the schools. It's really great to work with those kids, but we were all very sad to have to end that part of our saga today... we were slated to be doing that the whole week, but the King has decided to have a 3 day birthday party starting tomorrow... national holidays = no school. It really sucked to have to blaze right out of some of their lives just as fast as we came into them.
Thought for the day: Royalty really knows how to throw a party... and ruin the fun of aid workers.

That's about all I've got for now (just got in from the school, and it's about dinnertime... FYI all other global teams are going to hate us when we tell you guys what kind of style we're eating in)
Look for my/our next post sometime saturday night/sunday morning our time (no clue what that is your time and too drained to try to do the math)
Lehai (bye in khmer)
Adam

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