Cambodias Day 5

A lot of people like to use the phrase "Fresh Fruit", here in Cambodia that has an entire new meaning... One the kids at the orphanage today climbed a tree about 20 feet up to pluck a mango... He knocked it out of the tree and one of the other kids caught it. they brought the fruit and me straight to the kitchen. The kid grabbed a machete and sliced a nice big chunk out for me. I took my first bight less than a minute after it was plucked, now that's fresh fruit'. the mango was extremely sour but good. Today we started off by going straight to the orphanage, i pumped up the soccer ball and 30 seconds later we were in the middle of a game. The kids were actually really good. that went on for about half an hour before it was kicked over into the neighbors yard. Then it was time to go to the farm, we showed up to the farm and it had a pile of dirt and trash (we had cleaned about 300lbs of trash 3 days before). So the trash was kind of upsetting. We finished the roof of the chicken coop then we started picking up trash again. That took about 15 minutes. After that we had to move all the dirt across the farm to fill in a hole. I was a shoveler and i can tell you one thing and that is that i have NEVER sweat that hard in my entire life, the temperatures reached about 100 degrees today and that made the work harder.

After that we decided to visit the S-21 museum, a museum that is all about the Khmer Rouge. This was an event that happened in Cambodia to try and start the country over. It ended up killing millions of people. Everyone that had any education or any sense of intelligence  was killed and so was their family. Pol Pot and his army led this event. They would torture people in many different ways to get information. and the ways that they would kill people are so sickening. This museum helped me relies how lucky i am to have such a healthy family and how nothing bad has ever really happened to my family. Lisa- Marie sat on the plane with someone that had fled the country 40 years before, he said he was going back to see if anyone in his family survived and was still alive. This was a very touching museum.

After all that we returned to the orphanage for the afternoon, it started with Frisbee for about 45 minutes, and then wrestling... Try taking on two Asians at once, it's no different then taking on two awesome ninjas. They looked like the new some karate. At about 1:30 it was so hot you could not walk without shoes or you would burn your feet. In the end it was an amazing day that i wish everyone could experience, and same with this trip... I hope that one day everyone will have the opportunity to have this amazing experience.