Our First Day on the Job Site!

Sua s' dei!!!

Today was our first day on the job sight with the trailblazers foundation! It was so amazing! We got in our tuk tuk's and traveled down the road over the river and past the market. When we arrived we were able to check out the Crocodile farm in front of the work site. It was crazy!! Hundreds of crocs in a very small area all seemed to be smiling at us. It smelt like a pig pen. We then were taught about the water filters. The young Cambodian men all 21 years giggled as the nervously taught us how to do the jobs. They are all so cute and shy! We had to shovel shifted sand into buckets to clean by pouring water in and swishing it around. It's pretty hard work, I think my arms may be a little sore and of course like usual we were all pouring sweat! By 11 we were all ready to stop. It was great though! Our new friends sang to us and we had a little Mini Khmer Language lesson. This whole trip has been absolutely amazing!! I love the pace of life and how happy everyone is. I feel the all Cambodians are very grateful for their lives and it hurts me that sometimes I can get so upset about mine. I feel as if my eyes have been reopened and I' m seeing the world for the first time. The Khmer Rouge have defiantly left a huge mark on this country. There is just something about looking out your window of a very nice guest house and seeing mounds of mass graves. I will never forget the sadness I felt as I walked the halls of S-21 (the Khmer rouge torture center) were the tiles were stained with blood, or stood at the base of the Wat at the killing fields four stories high filled with 9,000 human skulls. This world is amazing and we never should take what we have for granted.