Many of my English II students have decided to join us on this trip to Cambodia, even though they are missing 3 days of classes and a 2-3 page essay on Autism. In exchange for skipping that assignment, I decided to offer my students write daily blog reports on what kind of things we were doing in Cambodia. We actually will present two reports of today, being that the group that visited Wat Preah Yesu split into two groups: one that primarily focused on teaching and entertaining kids in classes, and another that focused on painting a few houses on the campus. This report, from Kotomi, is about the painters.
Today we separated into two groups to paint the second and third house. These rooms were really dirty. Several parts of the wall came off. We spent long time to paint whole walls of the houses. Some girls screamed at bugs and spiders which stuck on the wall. Everyone had fun to clean a lot although paint smelled horribly bad and had chemical and made us dizzy.
In the school we worked on we did a lot of activities with kids. They are really pure and can feel happy from small things. Every kid ran to us to play or asked for candy. I think kids who I saw in Taiwan and Japan used to get candy when they want and know a lot of activities because of high education. Staffs in Mission Trip are funny, friendly, and energetic. They gave us and the kids in the school new games. For example, today Mr.Webb suggested one game for getting closer with kids. First Mr. Webb says the number and we need to make groups which have same numbers of people he said. However, we cannot make groups including only guys, girls, or TAPA & TAAS students. All groups should have least one from these three groups.
I learned a lot of things from kids and our staffs. They gave me chances to have conversation and help kids every time when I got there. Also I appreciated teachers and kids giving chance to worship. From this trip I learned help and love kids, teachers, and God.
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