Everything is going great here! Words really can't describe how thankful I am and how amazing and touching this trip has been. Today was especially touching to me because of the little things. Little things are what make these beautiful children light up every single day. When you just bring a simple amount of chalk, bubbles, paper, markers/crayons, stickers, clothing, food, and love, these kids enjoy it so much. It brings a glow to their faces. I absolutely love it! We started today by giving them papers and the Crayola "magic" markers. It took them a little while to actually figure out what Lisa Marie and I were teaching them, but they eventually got it. After they figured it out, they were each making the most amazing pictures for us! One of mine said "I love Anna, and God loves you too!" This right here brought tears to my eyes! Definitley framing this when I get back home! With the clothing, LM and Mrs. Gutmann handed it out again individually to each kid in the directors office room. Their faces are priceless when they come out with their handful of clothes.
They are so happy! Ear to ear smiles! I did not hand out clothes today because I decided I wanted to hang out with some of the older boys who were playing soccer with Jack Skidi. So much fun, but maybe I should of chosen another day to do this. It was 98 degrees today and with humidity, holy moly it was hot. It looked like Jack and I both had literally taken showers we were dripping so much sweat. Pretty funny and gross! Thank goodness you cannot see what I look like at home until you see the pictures. We are all sun burnt, sweaty, gross looking people. But it is o.k. that means I am working hard. I am probably also this way because today we also finished the chicken coop and pig sty. I was so happy and I cannot wait to roll these little pigs in! We then took our lunch break and we went to the S-21 museum.
The S- 21 museum is very sad, yet so incredible to see! When you see the orphaned children we are working with and the impoverished children who we are surrounded by, you think to yourself everyday "Why?". Every single day I have been here, I think exactly this. So, today on our tour of the museum where torturing, detention, interrogation, and killing took place, it touched me so deeply. I saw everything. The blood stained floors, the single cells, the rooms where they were beaten in, the way they were beaten, thousands and thousands of pictures of the victims and soldiers involved, and the overall grounds of where it took place. Think of this as the Holocaust Museum. But I am consuming it in a much different way because I am here. Just our tour guide herself, had lost every single member of her family. Ugh! The Pol Pot Regimes goal was to kill all the intelectual people in Cambodia and also anyone who were related to them. Crazy. This is exactly why there are orphans and impoverished people living here. My question has been answered and the answer really stinks. The unfortunate thing about these orphaned children though is you cannot adopt them. Trust me, if I could adopt I would be telling my parents to hop on a plane and expect a new kid to come home with us. I am sure you would too if you saw there little faces!
I have the weekends off here, so tomorrow I think I am going to the killing fields. Can't wait! However, I will miss these kids hugs and laughter all weekend.
XO
Anna
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