Week 8

We have had two little traumers this week at work. Sayha, the little boy pointing at the camera in the picture of the tuk tuk, fell down the stairs and had to spend a couple of nights in hospital, we couldnt really find out how he was hurt because of the whole translation issue, but hopefully he will be back at home bouncing about, when we return on Monday. Thearak, a girl of, I think 9. Has a recurring scalp condition. Therefore she has had her head shaved a couple of times. She had gorgeous ringlet hair to her shoulders but it was shaved of  at the weekend. It has really knocked her confidence, in the lesson she didn't want to join in and she has been very clingy. I feel very maternal and extremely sorry for her.
Group Home 2 had a bit of a roof mallfunction this week. We had extremely heavy rain and then our lesson was interrupted by water gushing through the ceiling. We had to do some frantic 6 man mopping and pushing water on to the balcony before it went through the floor, so that was quite exciting.
We also had Sorn, our supervisors leaving party, which consisted of really yummy food. We had beef kebabs and stripped vegetables with bread and chicken curry wth rice. I enjoyed it a lot, I even ate some of the beef.
We have spent Wednesday to Sunday on holiday in Siem Reip visiting Gabby and Katie, two other project Trust volunteers which has been really nice. Siem Reip is really lovely. It is cleaner and smaller than Phnom Penh and quite quaint. The French colonial influence in the architecture is very prominent here. We decided to wait  to see Ankor wat and the temples, when our families visit. We visited Gabby and Katie's project, I think we have it a bit tougher than them, they have a lovely big ensuite room a short picturesque cycle ride from the childrens home. They provide their own breakfast, so no rice. They have alot of short term volunteers that come and go which must be really nice to add a bit of excitement and much needed effortless  conversations in English. Seim Reip seems very western compared to Pnom Penh, and they often go out and weekends to bars and restaurants where they meet other westerners.They also have internet access at their accommodation. I do prefer our project though as we seem to be involved in more aspects of the NGO, I prefer our children and I just get a better feeling from our project,  but then im probably biased.