If you want to read from day one, please scroll down (: TYVM.
adorable baby eating biscuits. :D
My group working at the mulberry plantation. :D
The view is damn nice, the mountains and everything. But you can't really see it on the camera.
DAY FOUR
Day four was almost the same as day three because we worked at the mulberry plantation at Phnom Voah again. (: But this time our St. Francois High School counterparts came to help. I tell you arh, they are damn power can. We were like damn tired cus the previous day we already work like mad la, but they were super good la, like they dig one time is equals to we dig five times or something liddat. : D haha. Ya anyway, after awhile we took a break and then we talked to them, so cool. Cus I learnt some survival Khmer. Like I am pretty in Khmer is, Nyom sa-at nahh. And I love you in Khmer is Nyom slolan nia yay! : D haha. Then there was this guy known as bufallo from St. Francois, they almost trick me into saying I love him la, hah. But I was SMART! :D But he very cute. lmao. (; Okay then after working we went to St. Francois High School again, this time for the farewell party. It was super fun lahh, first they performed for us some cultural dance and some singing, then we, the girls danced reach for the stars for them and then the boys joined us in singing we will get there by stephanie sun. : D Then we did the friendship dance with them, y'knw the as we walk to the left as we walk to the right... It was fun. And after that it was like they starting to play some techno music and it was something like clubbing, the St. Francois students can really dance sia, but it was kinda awkward lah. But it was fun nonetheless. :D And then we had reflections and then we slept. Pics up! (:
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Who would have thought some of this adorable children suffer from HIV.
DAY FIVE
We woke up early in the morning and set off to Phnom Voah for the last time. ): This time my group had to help out with building the school. Y'knw I have no idea why we did so little lahh, like all we had to do was form a human chain and transport the rocks form one end to another, but it was still tiring, but somehow it seemed insignificant la, cos our main aim for coming to cambodia was to build a school for the Phnom Voah children. But it's like we did vv. little for the building and did more at the fields and teaching the children. Yea. And it was our final day with the Phnom Voah people so we went to the beach with them. The previous night, ms. lim told us that we weren't allowed to go into the water because it was very risky and we couldn't touch them in case they had open cuts. It was v. sad lah, cus they were having so much fun playing I was so tempted to join. But safety first la I guess. Ya, and then after the beach we went back to Phnom Voah for the farewell dinner. It was fun too. Cus it's like they brought out this tv and started playing karaoke songs, ranging form indian movies to khmer versions of my hump. HAHA. : D It was so funny. There was this hindi song, OH MY DARLING I LOVE YOU that was so cute we ended up singing it everyday after that. lmao (: Ya and then we ate our final dinner, it was rice noodles with curry, quite nice lahh. :D And then we did our dance and song item for them again. And then we presented them pictures of us with the families. And then we had to leave. ): It was so sad, but it was like before we left all the small cute boys were dancing to the song playing on the tv, soc ute lahh. But my camera no batt so I couldn't catch snaps. ): But it was so adorable, I took a picture with my handsome boy with zuhairi's camera. :D And then we said our final bye-byes and went back to the cultural centre. We bathed, did our final reflections and slept.
DAY SIX
This day was slack because we only visited the killing fields and tuo slang prison. This two places play a big part in Cambodia's history because it was were the evil Pol Pot, the prime minister of that time carried out the Khmer Rouge regime which took away millions of Cambodian lives. It was very sad and I was quite affected by it. Ya, you just see the pics ok. And after that we checked into ASIA HOTEL :DD IT was very very nice to see proper toilets again, haha. with no spiders. :D Yea and then we went to a sorya mall nearby for dinner. It was damn crazy crossing roads in Cambodia lah, like out of nowhere you'll see motorbikes. haha. Yea, but it was fun. We shopped around a little and saw lots of fake shoes gg real cheap. We were so excited lah, but anyway after that we went back to the hotel to a super high class conference room for reflections. We reflected on the visit to killing fields and all that, I couldn't really contribute cus I was half asleep. Haha, yea anyway my roomies were, Atiqah, Vino and Steph. Siti was in the next door room ): Yea, but anyway we had fun staying up to watch spiderman 3, actually it was just me lor, cus halfway three of them crashed. D: But I slept well. (: pics up.
Killing fields.
DAY SEVEN
After breakfast we went to visit the rubbish dump. I've no pictures, but it was very saddening. Because the piles of rubbish were like mountains and you could see little children digging through it, it was heart wrenching lah. And the smell was vv. overwhelming, almost puked. ): I don't knw how the people there could manage it. D: And all over we had to step on dirty brown sludge that stained our shoes. ): Yea we quickly left and went to the place where the people we collected rubbish stayed. There we saw the little children playing and learning and we entertained them by twisting them balloons, siti was damn happy la cos she said all the little kids were surrounding her, pulling her shirt and all that. (: I was happy too. And then we performed for them the dance and song again. SO FUN. (: Ya and after that we went SHOPPING!!!! It was soooo fun. First we went to the russian market. I bought lotsa shirts there lah, it's damn cheap, like one shirt can cost 3 US dollar without bargaining. (: So FUN! Ya and then after the russian market we went back to sorya mall and I wanted to buy new shoes cus mine were really dirty from the rubbish dump. I wanted nike dunks but there were totally NONE my size. Damn wasted luh cus one pair can cost as cheap as 20 US dollars without bargaining but of cus they were fake lah. (: And then we returned to the hotel for FINAL reflection. They said it would end at twelve but it ended at one instead. And we had to wake up at 5 to prepare for gg to the airport. So practically none of us slept much. First my roomies and I watched tv in our room, then we went to 317, mingfong,zuhairi and xf's room where some others were there. But it was kinda boring cus zuh,xf,win,veron and shiqi were sharing secrets. So we left early to 504, siti's room. But they were all half asleep already, so we went back to our own room to watchtv instead. And again, all of them crashed while I was watching channel v. Then I heard a knock on the door. I ask who is it, then the voice said Mr. TOH. I was like, huh? Then I went to check, I saw this guy and my mind was quite blank lah, it took me so long to realise it was actually Andrew Tantoto. HAHA(: It was him, norman and Mingfong, lmao. They came into my room and we all watched tv. Then andrew crashed first, he was dreaming of ice-cream. Lol. (: Then Norman used my toilet to bathe. So we watched cartoon network. So lame. (: Then norman came out, then mingfong crashed. Then norman went back and realised he was locked out, so he came back. Ya, and then I watched scooby doo, crashed, woke up again and it was still scooby do, and then atiqah's alarm clock rang. (: Ya then I woke up the guys, so hard sia, they like pigs liddat. :D Then we prepare to go airport. Then we saw SINA for the last time. I just realised I din't mention SINA this whole time, ya but he's this damn nice cambodian who helped father olivia with guiding us. He's damn crazy lah, very cute also. And he liked to wear siti's shades. Anyway it was hard to say goodbye to him and sam at the airport ): BOO. Ya but we had to anyway. I crashed on the plane and we arrived home at 1140 around there. (: HOME SWEET HOME.
