Day 2 started at 7am in the morning. we had to meet at the lobby for breakfast and breakfast was free and u had such a "wide" choice such that u can choose from baguette(ba kut teh...haha), pancake or noodles. no wonder it was free. we den went back up to our rooms and packed before loading everything up the bus for our trip to hope village, prey veng.
it was a damn long journey, and i tried to sleep to pass time faster. but when we reached the ferry stop, things got interesting. There were a whole lot of people selling weird stuff, lyk disgusting prawns, weird looking fruits, fertilised eggs(i almost bought that cause i thought they were normal duck eggs), etc and they were very desperate people. as the door of our bus was left open after people went to the toilet, they wanted to come up to ask us to buy. some even climbed up the bus to try to pull open our windows. dun think any of us bought anything in the end.
after crossing the river o the ferry and an hour's ride, we finally arrived at hope village. it was a decent looking building, and i was surprised at the response we were given. the kids lined the main building, 1st and 2nd floor and sort of surrounded our bus. i didn't know what they wanted and almost thought they were lyk those people at the ferry station. but i was damn wrong. they wanted so much to help us move our luggage and the boxes of donations. they had so much initiative, most probably many groups have come here b4. after everything was unloaded we went to have lunch. we learnt that the kids ate at a different place from us as we might be having different stuff. lunch was 'special". rice with vegetable soup!!! nothing else and little did i know that the next few days was going to be the same. didn't eat much cause wasn't very used to it. after that we started moving our luggage into the bunks. it was a nice place, built in an underground tunnel with three rooms. we slept on beds in air-conditioned rooms. that's the irony when we realised the kids sleep on non-airconditioned rooms and slept on wooden plank beds.
next was ice breakers. i got posted to the youngest group and they were damn cute!!! time for pictures...
Ontout
Borang
Kuong
Srey Niat
Sok Ka
this was when communication became a huge problem. the only english that was communicable between us was "what is your name?" and "how old are you?". the rest was up to sign language. but i would dare say we had a lot of fun and the main objective of ice-breaking was achieved.
the day became quite short after that, just some time for us to mix around and awful dinner again. but this time it was slightly better as it was winter melon soup with satay chicken we brought from singapore. starting to get used to the food.
yupyup, that's about the end of day 2. really long day. sorry i'm blogging so slowly, probably the next few days i'll blog 2 or 3 days in 1 day. now my leg's damn painful from the inflamation of my wound. now u know how deadly cambodia's hygiene is... till next time, bye bye