A Different Week Than the First

My second week here in Jumbok Haos has ended.  On Monday cam a group of teenagers from Phnom Penh ready to experience adventure learning in Preah Vihear.  It's quite different here when there is a group. While last week my day was spent leading worship in the morning then teaching English for about an hour and a half to the staff that works here then fending for myself for all food related activities and falling asleep right around 8 or 830 at night and trying not to get bit by my animal buddies, this week was different in almost every aspect.

So, first the good.  Every meal was made for me!! Since there was a group here we have two cooks that make food for them.  They're nice enough to know that I'm a vegetarian so I get my own little meal every time. And it's always ready for me when I get there!!  So that's awesome.  Also there's people here!  Not only the group here to learn and do the activities but the whole staff come out here and live here for the week.  So I got to better know the people I work with.  By spending more time with people I've learned a lot more khmer than I did the first week.  The activities themselves also provide a lot of entertainment.  Something I was lacking the first week.  Not just watching the kids overcome their fears and having all this fun but they all wanted me to try the activities with them.  Some of the things we have here that are my favorite: The climbing wall, repelling, gibbon's swing and the 600m zip line about 18 meters up!  Last but not least I had electricity for a couple hours at night!! So I'll admit I watched a couple of movies here on my laptop instead of writing the blog earlier but I'm here now so get over it.

Now for the cons.  There were people here!!  haha So I was starting to like the peace and quiet that came with this empty jungle.  There were some times when I just wanted to go back to that for a couple hours but couldn't, privacy was sometimes an issue.  Also we were busy all day! While it was a fun type of busy I wasn't able to do the reading and stuff I had gotten used to being able to do.  This also meant that we cut our English classes shorter than normal, but I'm glad they still wanted to continue with them after the day was about over. The staff could have very easily decided that they were too tired to have class but I was encouraged to see how much they want to learn.

Mostly I enjoyed the week a lot.  I like kids of that age so to interact with them and have electricity was really fun.  I'm looking forward to the next time we have a group here, although I'm not sure when that will be. As always thanks for reading! I'll try to get some pictures up here soon.  I don't know how yet and I haven't taken many pictures yet but I'll try.  See ya