This week has been generally the same as the last week except we have staff leaders who know whats going on and a group of forty kids instead of twenty five. I have been working on building a playground at the orphanage, but in actuality i have been building a brick wall to keep sand in. Its much more difficult than it looks, and we have come to the conclusion that the american schooling system doesnt teach kids anything useful. My roommate Brent put it the most eloquently. He said: Matt and I spent $400,000 at Johns Hopkins, and a farmer smoking a cigarette walks by and knows exactly how to tile, while it takes us three days to put one in. The people in Cambodia know how to do everything. Some of the kids this week dont really feel like working most of the time, so weve given them the option to leave the orphanage in the afternoon to just sit in the hotel, and thats generally when we get the most work done. One afternoon we got to watch the orphans do their traditional upsalla dancing which was amazing (pic). This week we had a base house available to us. Its not huge but big enough for all 40 kids to hang out and play games in. Some kids slept there last night but most didn't want to. Its probably about 1000 square feet with a huge yard, and the rent is only $100 per month. Today we went to another Temple that was entirely inhabited by monkeys. They were all really mean, and kept trying to take peoples cameras, and when we bought them food, they stole the entire bag from people. Im not entirely sure that im going back to the orphanage project next week, but chances are i will be because there is another huge group of kids coming in. I dont have much else to say, except that im getting sun burned a lot and am getting tired of eating the same food everyday. Tonight we are having a party with the orphans in the base house because we leave tomorrow to go to Siemp Reap and go to Angkor Wat again. This week went infinitely quicker than last.
