Day 6 or 7/3/12
Today was a very productive day, we got to the orphanage with our normal welcome greeting. We got to play and say hi for a couple of minutes before our productive day began. We walked to the back and started collecting bricks and washing them although we had 700 we only had to wash 271 because those were the only bricks that we gathered that had been used before. We had to make piles so we could tell what we had done and had not done. The brick water was so dirty you could not even see the bricks in the water. Then we had to mix cement and sand to make mortar. Then the workers showed us how to lay the bricks so we could try to make a correct and sturdy wall for the pigs. I ended up trying to lay the bricks and they ended up taking them out again. By the end of the day I got the brick system down right as we were finishing the wall.
Then it was time for lunch but I did not get to eat lunch because I had to start de-licing the girls heads. We only had time to do 5 girls heads and only 2 boys. The girls hair were harder and took longer to get out but the boys have more bugs. I got to do part of Srey Mey's hair and Luvang's hair. There was so much lice between the two girls hair we had to rinse the bowl many times. By the end of that the girls hair looked so clean.
Then all of us had to go back to the pig pen to cover the whole wall in mortar. As soon as we finished we all took a step back and were so impressed on what you can accomplish in one day. Then it started pouring so hard the tarp broke and water was coming inside in all directions. Putting boards and buckets to catch the water. Before we got the buckets in place some of the water came through and made the mortar wet again. We all thought that we were going to have to do the whole thing again. once you took a step outside you looked like you just got out of the shower. The roads were flooded and we had to drive off of the road or else we would have got stuck. The rain was my favorite part.
Then we got to play with Srey paul. She is soo cute I did not want to go and she had to go home. She was saying tia tia tia and that means home. So I walked her home through the rain. But then right as she got home she came running back so she was crazy.
Day 7 or 7/4/12
We got out of our hotel and I was all decked out in my red, white, and blue. We can still celebrate the 4th of July even if you are half way around the world. While we were driving to the orphanage Mallory dropped her water bottle. Luckily we had one extra BIG water bottle.
We got to go to the yard and we got to cut the lawn with machetes. Then we had to dig up all of the roots so we could create a clothes line. The kids are hanging their cloth on the fence and the fence is not strong enough so the fence was starting to fall down. So Nikko came up with the idea of the clothe line. It took all day to de-root the yard. There was a huge difference between the beginning and the end. Once we finished that we had to redo part of the pig pen because of the rain. It only took about 5 minutes.
Then we had another rainstorm causing us to not go to the olympic stadium. But it was better that we did not go because we were all tired and gross and we got to get massage. It was only 5 dollars for one hour and a full body massage. That was so nice from squatting all day.
That was an end to one of my days on my journey. One more day in to my journey and one day less.
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