I've realized that i should really keep a pad with me at all times to write down the little things that happen to me during the day so i can write about them later, but im going to try to write as much as i can before i pass out tonight. The past couple weeks have been more of the same. Working in rice fields during the day, followed by lunches at the infamous Hao an restaurant, and breakfasts and dinners at SMILE. SMILE is a restaurant run by the same NGO that runs the orphanage we work at. It helps train students in cooking and then inevitably gives them a job. It also uses some of its profits to put back into the orphanage project. It isn't always easy to explain the sensory overload that i experience everyday. Sights, smells (lots of them), and sounds that are usually indescribable... Most of them have become commonplace after a month here....Goat in the middle of the road, no problem, penis on the menu...obviously, some random dude peeing off a bridge, no one bothers looking twice. Cambodia in a lot of ways is like a free for all...anything goes most of the time. This became evident when having a conversation about drunk driving in cambodia which doesn't really have any repercussions in the countryside. The past few weeks i have been working on a playground project at the orphanage which was finally completed today with the installation of two swings, a slide, and two seesaws. The kids at the orphanage have started to like me more. Almost all of them know my name now, and always pull me aside to play with them. Today was the epitome of this, when i was dragged onto the slide five times, despite the fact that every time i was convinced it was going to break....not much else has been going on, except some small excitement which will be saved for another time.
