Cambodia!

Well, I have been in Cambodia for five days... I think.
Its a really interesting place, very poor, dirty and flat. The history is absolutely horrifying, which makes the culture, people, and area strangely intrguing. There is much to say about Cambodia, but first let me tell you what I have been up to.

My first few days I stayed in the Ökay Guesthouse. It was okay. Patrick, CLarke (another volunteer) and I had a few meetings with some local people in Phhom Penh. One of our missions here is to find someone who we think can run the orphanage/childrens center/school that we hope to create here in Cambodia. So far we have had a few interesting leads...
Travis, and Pippo (both volunteers) arrived two days after Clarke and I. Pippo is an Italian engineer, and he is going to help plan the GR children's home and help us to fix a school in one of the areas we visited. Travis was Global Root's first young volunteer. We left Phnom Penh when they arrived and drove four hours to a plantation owned and operated by a friend of Patricks. His name is Heat. How cool/ironic is that? Anyway, we looked at a peice of land they (Patrick and Heat) both own to see if it would make sense for us to build our children's home there. We have yet to come to a conclusion.
Five minutes from there is a school that we also visited, and plan to support. It has no walls and a roof that is in very poor shape. In total about 70 kids live in the surrounding village, but currently a little under half of them attend the school. We hope to increase that number.
We just arrived in Sianoville, where we wil be staying for the next week or so. We are right on the beach in some pretty beat up bungalows, and it is sweet.
I will update you further on what we will be doing in the next few days soon.

Stay tuned dear friends.