July 3&4 Tuesday and Wednesday 2012

Tuesday, July 3

Today was a very productive day, when we arrived at the orphanage of course we had our morning greetings but we got right to work after that. Today was the pig pen building day!! First we cleaned off  each brick leaving it just about spotless, for me it hurt, instead of filing my finger nails, it felt like I was filing my hands. It was hard for our team to do the work because they wanted to do it, they wanted it their way, and it had to be perfect. We first started cementing the bricks together, after that we cemented the entire wall, it was so much work, but it was all worth it! This took just about the entire morning. During lunch, of course it started to rain again. The cement that we had put down was not dry yet so it started to get wet, and it would slide down the side of the wall, so tomorrow we would probably have to end up redoing, 1 wall. After lunch it was time to play with the kids, Zoe and I were trying to get good pictures of this little girl named Strey Pi, she is my favorite little girl in the world.   About an hour before it was time to leave, another rain storm picked up, this one was worse. Everybody who was out in the rain for just 45 seconds looked like they had just got out of the shower!  All the bigger boys even Bret were trying to get me to come in the rain, they were pulling my arms, and lifting up my legs. After that, Nikko and I started talking about how bad the fires are getting at home, and so we decided to sing as we push the rain "go home rain! they need rain! go home rain! they need rain!" It was so funny. On the way home one of the roads was completely flooded, the water was above the tuk-tucks wheels! Some people who I felt so sorry for and to get off there motto and push it out off the street! It ended up being quite funny! That's all for today!

Wednesday, July 4

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!! When we woke up this morning, we all decided to represent America! So I wore a red bandanna, white shirt, and blue pants! It was great! On the tuk-tuk ride to the orphanage, I dropped my water on to the street, that was a huge bummer! But when we got to the orphanage there was an extra unopened water bottle there, so it ended up being okay. Today was a big day, today we were making the clothes line, I am so thankful for a lawn mower, we used machete knives to cut the grass! And the one day of crazy hard work of course the sun had to come out. We did not mind the heat, the only thing that was holding us all up was the ants, those little suckers hurt so bad its crazy!! By the end of the day my feet were on fire! Next came lunch!! Yumm, during lunch we got to play with the kids, I read a bunch of stories with kids, I also got to sit with Lisa Marie and she told me a few kids stories, how they got there and why they act the way they do. After lunch we made our last minute finishing touches on the clothes line area. For a lot the second half of the day I played lots of volleyball with the boys and Ava it was so much fun. About 10 minutes before we were leaving another rain storm hit, and there was 1 time on the way back there we got stuck and Ly had everybody get out of the tuk-tuk and pushed us out of the water. When we got back we ate dinner, Zoe, Anna, and I went across the street to get 5 dollar massages. It was well worth the price! It was so weird but felt so good! Zoe and I were laughing the entire time!! Well I am exhausted and ready for bed!
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