Birthday Galavanting

So much has happened since my last post, its going to be difficult to try to remember everything. Work at the orphanage has been the same as since i posted last. We have been mainly working on building a retaining wall in the ricefields that the orphanage owns and finishing the tiling work we started. On the fourth of July it rained so we didn't have time to celebrate, but on the 5th there was a giant party for the students and orphans. We had music, played volleyball, and even set off fireworks. We also had time to visit another temple near the orphanage. It was pretty strange because they built giant stone fruit around the complex to try to attract tourists. But the view was incredible.


The sixth was our last day at the orphanage with the kids who are only staying on the project for a week so there was some emotion saying goodbye. The day ended watching the lion king and eating some sketchy cambodian sandwiches. Wednesday morning we departed to Siemp Reap, a city roughly 3 hours away that is the site of the Angkor Wat Temple Complex. It was most likely the coolest place i have ever been in my life. I took a group of kids there that will only been in siemp reap for one day and we had a blast. Afterwards we had dinner, and went to the night market which sells loads of tourist crap, but had lots of awesome fake rayban sunglasses that i bought for $1 each. After the night market i went out with a few staff members for my birthday and we found an ally that had a bunch of projectors for the world cup.


The next morning was insane. We had to send a number of kids off to the airport who were heading back to the states. Some kids were staying in siemp reap till the evening to fly off to Laos, and then I took the group who is staying in the orphanage back to Phnom Pehn. Luckily everything worked out alright. The hotel in Phnom Pehn is terrible, and i hardly slept last night. We are heading back to the orphanage today and I honestly couldnt be happier. Ill try to post a better blog sooon!