Saturday, July 3, 2010

Arrival

I only have a moment to update this, so im sorry for not writing more. After an extremely long flight over to cambodia (LA-Tokyo-Singapore-Kuala Lampur-Phnom Pehn) with 51 students from LA and New York, we safely all made it to tha Angkor International Hotel. The program i currently am working on is an Orphanage program located in Kampong Cham, the third largest city in Cambodia roughly 2.5 hours from Phnom Pehn. My responsibilities have just been to keep an eye on the studens traveling with rustic pathways, and monitoring their allowances. The orphanage we are working at is not your typical orphanage. The students all have foster families who they live with at nighttime and come to spend the days there, playing with eachother or gardening for food. So far we have been responsible for retiling a patio, weeding a garden and rice paddy, and re surfacing a road (with dirt, not pavement). I will have to update this in a few days when i have more time, but right now i have to go meet up with the kids to take them to dinner and it started pouring out. Talk to you all soon!!!