This morning was our last time we had to visit the orphanage which is so sad, as it’s one of our favourite things to do. We arrived at 8:30 and took them some of the clothes that were donated as well as toothbrushes, combs and hairbands. When we arrived, we took the children out to play again with the toys and buggies which they love to climb all over. Later on 3 other volunteers from Australia and Spain also came to help which was nice and they brought colouring books and pencils which the children love playing with. They get so mucky though as the pencils get wet from being sucked on and then end up going all over their faces. After play it was their lunch and so we helped feed them rice with a few vegetables and meat in. Philippa was feeding one of the smallest boys who is about 18 months and who is the biggest wriggler ever. He ended up being sick on her and that mixed with wet nappies is rather gross. Those trousers ended up in the bin! After their lunch we left the orphanage and then headed back to the hotel for a much needed quick shower, before then going to lunch ourselves at the restaurant Viva Mexico.
At 3pm we left to go look at a government run school to see the contrast between the church run kindergartens. As you can see from the photos, the children here had much cleaner uniforms and the classrooms were more decorated with drawings on the walls etc. Each class has around 25 students and there are 17 different classes throughout the day.
We had a bit of spare time until we had to be at the student centre and so went for an ice cream rather than staying in the hotel. Befor leaving to head to the student centre we had to go back and grab a few resources from the hotel and bumped into Garrett and Mel who had just arrived back from Battanbang.
When we arrived at the centre, we chatted to some of the uni students there and answered a questionaire for one of the students about the food we had at Angkor Wat because she was doing it for her hospitality course at uni. It was then time for our session with the English lesson for the younger students. To begin the class we gave them questions such as how old are you you? Who do you live with and where do you live? Although these were easier questions than yesterday, it was good because it meant that more students felt confident to come up and write the answer on the board which was great. Other times it has just been one or two answering all of them so this was really important. After these questions, we split them into groups again with Philippa taking the younger students again and Chloe and I taking the older students. We played our version of bingo with them again and got them to think of a sentence about their card before they played it on their board. For example if they had a cat, they could say something like ‘I have a small cat’. It could be very simple because as long as they said one it didn’t matter as they all had a lot of fun and there was a lot of laughter.
For dinner we went to the presbytery and had a fab meal of spaghetti and BBQ. Fr Totet was telling us some amazing stories about the presbytery and the people and situations he has encountered since being in Cambodia for around 20 years now which was a lovely way to end the day.
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