Hi everyone
It is now the morning of our last full day in Siem Reap.
This mundane blog entry - outlining our daily routine- probably won't be of
great interest to anyone except for the parents.
The kids are woken up at 7.00am (not by us, but phonecall
from Reception.) They need to be at breakfast between 7.30-8.00am. Breakfast
consists of cereals, crackers, vegemite, (fake) nutella and (peanut-free)
peanut butter and fruit. Then Frances gives a short spiel on Cambodian History
(I would do a better job of Jewish History, but am managing to read ahead!
F.P.) and then we say the Shma together. Hopefully, our prayers and gratitude
for our lives are accentuated after learning about the decades and decades of
civil war, violence and trauma suffered by the Cambodian people.
Then we all meet in the lobby for 8.30am departure.
When we return to the hotel after our day in the village,
most kids have free time. Some will be on 'food' duty (different group every
day.) They go to the supermarket with one of us to replenish our food supplies
and to buy the ingredients required for dinner and lunch. The supermarket is
very well-stocked. Thankfully there are many imported American food products
with the stamp of OU- the Kosher seal of Union of Orthodox synagogues.
At about 5.30pm those on kitchen duty meet in our dining
room- we have our own designated area. They start peeling and chopping and
shredding and doing whatever the chefs ask of them. In addition, they prepare
the ingredients for everyone to make their wraps with, for lunch for the next
day.
The kids who are writing the blog entry meet Frances in
the Business Centre half an hour before dinner to do their writing.
We have dinner and then the kids make their wraps for the
next day. They then write in their journals (or vice versa).
Warmest of regards
Frances and Rhys
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