Wow! Today has been a great one! We built a pig pen today from scratch using cement, bricks, brooms, hammers, and lots of man power. I must say, the building of a pig pen is one of those things that I never expected myself to be apart of one day. However, I am so thankful that I did work so hard to accomplish this because I learned so many new things in the process. Knowing how to cement a wall, use bricks properly when doing so, and making sure that for the amount of hours that I am working, I give nothing but my best work!
This process was a very long one for some of us who stayed and worked all day. Towards the afternoon, we had two big monsoonal rain storms. So big that the the water was attempting to wash away are newly cementing walls. Ha! That was not going to happen and I was determined - even if it took my entire body getting completly wet. Those of us who continued working on the pig pen worked through the rain and made sure that the walls around the pig pen were finished.
On the other side of the fence at the orphanage, the rest of the students who are volunteering here took on the job of de-lousing students. The children at CPO orphanage have full heads of lice. It is so incredibly bad! It feels like no matter how many times I wash their hair and sit them down for hours on end, it never comes out. I wish that I could just shave their heads. PLEASE!!! Nice job ladies, your job was just as hard as ours across the way!!!
My group over here in Cambodia are doing great! I have seen each one of them progress over the last week or so. We are having a lot of great laughs and fun too!!
Thanks to you all back home!!
Love
Anna
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