Cambodia OCIP: #2nd day

The second day was really fruitful and enjoyable! I like the day! It was lovely!

I was ordered to wake up early in the morning at 4am which was 5am in Malaysia to prepare the breakfast for the children over there and of course ourselves! She purposely took my sleeping beg beside her just to demand me that to wake her up early in the morning because she was also ordered to do the same job as me and she stated that she afraid she couldn't wake up. I was actually didn't know my own feeling. It was like bittersweet; bitter more than sweet. I felt happy because I thought I was useful at that time at least she asked me to sleep beside her; I felt sad as I was only needed when she thought I was useful at that moment. That feeling was like been used! She neither share happiness nor sadness with me, only when she lost the one. I slept with tears and she asked me t turn another side which faced her. Sadly, I rejected as I was tearing and told her honestly with lie, " My tears will drop every night before sleep." I got no idea she believed or not? The night was full of quacks, those were the frogs' quack! It was a beautiful rhythm to accompany us at night.

Teacher called out my name on time. Quickly, I woke up. I thought she called for a long already and I hadn't wake up. I was wondering, did teacher sleep? I got no answer. It was true that she was a girl that couldn't wake up and definitely needed my help to shake her up. Since, there was Cambodia, we couldn't use the tap water simply as teacher mentioned it was dirty!! I got no solution, I took the hot water, really hot that was boiled and could be drunk, I used it to rinse my mouth, not even brush teeth. That heated my tongue but that was only solution. I went to the kitchen which was exposed, it was like outdoor kitchen, to help up. Teacher demonstrated us the correct way to cut the cucumber in slices and peal it, as a city girl, I couldn't do it successfully in a second! The guy suggested himself to be the one that did this. Teacher demonstrated us again to cut the 'char siew' (roasted pork?) in pieces. Slowly, I caught the skill to not to cut it too big and we took turn among three girls. I asked teacher that how many times she woke me up. Surprisingly, I got the answer once. I thought the kids should be like over 50 at least, but it ended up less than 10. Well...

It was our turn to have our breakfast, of course after I brushed my teeth. To be honest, I felt weird when I saw we were having rice early in the morning. But, just accepted it! First time tried the fried ducks' eggs, ok, it was nothing different with chickens' egg for me. I don't like the meats, so I didn't take without anyone realising, I just took more rice to balance it. After that, of course, started weeding again! Instead of following the crowd at the other way, I think it was better to Matthew (the boy that we knew at Cambodia together with David, I didn't introduce them in the first post cause I forgotten!! They were the helpers for us. Glad to know them, especially David! We knew him once we arrived at the school.) out, since he was hoeing and none went to do so. They (including David) were really expert in extirpate weed using hoe and we were like getting exhausted even just for seconds. Anyway, they both are really handsome.. (^^) We stayed active for 3 hours if not mistaken, to be sure that, we weren't work without any rest. We rest by just standing over there to straighten our waist and 2 minutes later carried on with our work. Just like the first day, I sang inside my heart, I did whatever I liked without disturbing anyone since they chose to be serious to do the work instead of have some entertainment. Finally, after 3-4hours of hard work in the early morning, had announced a stop!

We finally got to break! We had our lunch and the adults finally agree to let us rest more than what was set. We went inside the hall and start to chit-chat. The guy sitting over the gate joined our conversation. With his jokes, we got more fun. I still remember the 'class' that he taught, named '38po class' and the factors of being the 'san ba po'. Later, we went outside and played with the kids. We swung, and slowly know more children. The guy followed us and played with us including the kids. There were two kids that was quite shy, after being persuaded and convinced over and over again, they still didn't want to join. Unexpectedly, it was a rainy afternoon. We proceeded inside the hall. We had our girls talk among the four. Before continue our weeding, while it was raining, we 'jio' 2 guys to play the childhood game, the alphabet games.

Rain halted. Hands had to non-stop working again. I was lucky to join the another team to do planting job. I was very foolish to say I was the only one wearing the raincoat and somemore was plastic that can torn easily. At all costs, I still wore it even though it was already spoilt. I went crazy totally as I saw the land. The pastor instructed us to just put the stems that was provided into the soil. Someone suggest that let's barefoot to walk in the soil. Was it me who suggested? I've forgotten. What's still at the back of my mind is, I was the first one who did it. I said it was totally like foot massage along my job cause it was moist. They were scared if there was any insects, worms inside. Anyway, everyone were brave enough to barefoot!

Our team was fast enough to complete with the help of Matthew and David. I must mention that my cloth was totally went crazy like how was I. It went brownish from pale white. I had to throw this shirt that I love a lot after I went home. The weeding job hadn't done yet after we went back. No choice, we had to help them again.

Finally, it was the end of 'office hour'. We went to bath and quickly dine in to treat our stomach. Before we went to sleep, we had to do the daily reflection. That time was, pastor Matthew shared his testimony. I don't felt any surprise just it was a bit interesting.

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