Day 3

Today started off  as a rush for Creek and I, we have been keeping our alarm on my watch and after yesterdays big day... We slept straight through it. About 20 minutes before we were suppose to leave Creek yelled "Jack I don't think your alarm went off!" we ended up being able to eat and make the departure time, Thank you Creek!

We started off the day with half of us going to the market which was Creek, Gena, Aj, Jen, Jamie and I, and the rest went to the orphanage. I was excited because I knew what to expect where as the others, I'm not so sure. We were going to get 3 full size trash cans, 3 brooms, 20 trash bags, 11 pairs of work gloves, 3 trash scoopers, and a couple rags.All with $50 to work with. In the process, Gena told me that she had discovered some..."interesting"... smells. We did well as we finished only using about half of the money. Then we were off to the orphanage to start our work.

 With some of the money we fundraised we are paying for the orphanage to have another part of roof put in so that way when it rains the kids don't end up soaking wet like they were. When it rained about half of the sleeping area would get soaked so kids would either get really wet or sleep on top of one and other. This new piece of roof will cause the rain water to drip away from the sleeping area. This is a major production and we were told that they would start today, I thought this meant get a little bit of the structure completed but I was way off. When we arrived the structure was built and they were already starting to work on the roof structure, they did this without holds, ropes, drills or screws. An ax, and nails is all they used. the ax was dropped a  couple of times so it is good that no one was walking through at that time. Then as we were hanging out with the kids waiting to start, I heard that they were trying to chop down this tree that was on the telephone wire. This tree was on the orphanages land and was about 150 feet tall. One of the workers climbed the tree about half way and started hacking with a machete while the others pulled on a rope trying to get it to come down. It did come down which was awesome to see. We ate and then it was time to work.

Half of the group went to pick up all of the trash which was everywhere, mainly in the field. There was so much of it. In the back corner of the field was trash that looked like it had been there for years... with food in it. I lifted the first bag up to find about 50 full size maggot worms and covered in mold. That was pleasant and so was the smell. I have smelt many things such as rotting fish in the market but this was a 100 times worse. We all held down our lunches, taking all our will power. but after about an and hour and a half in the sun, it was done. The other half of the group was de-licing all of the kids. Some were really bad and some had very little it was odd. But, the group did well with very few complaints and no negative attitudes. That was awesome. After all the work we went back to the kids, playing volleyball, soccer, frisbee and just giving them love. At 4:30, half of us had to leave early to get the translator back. I think we are all very tired which is awesome. It means we left it all out on the field.

Time to go get some rest, another big day tomorrow. Thank you all again for the support and donations. Just remember that the next time it rains here in Cambodia, your donations helped give some orphans a dry bed.
Thank you!