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This morning, we slept late and missed the breakfast. According to the bell boy, the breakfast ends at about 10am. But by the time we got down, which is only 10:15am, all the things in the restaurant were already being put aside and cleaned. Well, we might as well make do with no breakfast. So I decided to walk walk down the street until pakpai and makmai arrive. Sadly the timid Jia Yi dare not walk with me. Hence, we went up to our room and watch TV instead.
By 11am, pakpai and makmai arrived. The next thing is to makan lunch at "Sopphia’s Kitchen". As far as I know, the owner of the restaurant was from Malaysia as well and she had been living in Ipoh and Penang before she came here. I ordered a bowl of "Penang Hokkien Mee" and Jia yi ordered "Minced Pork Mee", pakpai and makmai ate "Bak Kut Teh". It was Pastor Mok who suggested this place. Ps. Mok is the Dean of Cambodia and the Vicar for Church of Our Saviour Peace(That’s what I remember).
After lunch we went over to Ps. Mok’s church and met his wife and their daughter Sara (8 years old). Ps. Mok wants the group photo ‘we’ve taken earlier in "Sopphia’s Kitchen". So happen our camera’s memory card was fulled and I asked Ps. Mok to help me transfer some of the photos into my Thumb Drive. In the mean time, we sat down and we chat with his wife(singaporean). His wife told us some basic history about Angkor Wat and Cambodia. Angkor Wat is the religious stronghold of the whole country and it is really a spiritual bondage they are having here in Cambodia because of all the temples and the absence of the Gospel of Christ. After some time, Ps. Mok told us that his card reader can’t read our memory card because ours are not the standard SD card. Instead what we got is the "special" SONY memory stick which almost all card reader cannot read, except those by SONY itself. Troublesome!!! Next time I will buy CANON or MINOLTA, Hmph!!
Our next stop will be a small village outreach in Kien Svay("by the mango tree" in English). Makmai, Jia Yi and me are supposed to lead a Children Session whereas pakpai will speak with the adults. We start off with pakpai giving some brief introduction. He speaks in english but a local Khmer church worker translate to Khmerian for the kids. Next, all of us sang three songs, one in english which is "My God is so great, so strong and so mighty", one in Mandarin "Yi Qie Ge Song Zan Mei" and finally the malay song "Yesus Pokok dan Kita CabangNya". We purposely choose songs that have actions so that the kids can follow and involve themselves. That’s what pakpai always says, "two-way interaction". After the performance, the church worker lead the kids with another three songs. Then it was story telling time. Today’s topic was about the abduction of Daniel and his friends and King Nebuchanezzar. I’ve caught a few names and the word "Babylon" a few times but others are totally in Khmerian. Definitely, I cannot understand a single word. But I learned quite a few from there by asking Sara and Ps. Mok. I know :
We lead the kids with a game. The game is something like "scissors, rock and cloth" but it is the animal variation. It goes about in a cycle, the Elephant wins the Tiger and the Tiger wins the Mouse. But the Mouse wins the Elephant. The kids are divided into two groups and they are to discuss among themselves what they should be when I shout "GO". At first everyone will be playing at once but because they are about 60 kids, makmai suggested that we divide them into groups of ten. The church worker still find it very difficult to arrange them in groups and so she further divide them into groups of ten boys and ten girls. The game went on smoothly for some time. Suddenly, almost the same time as the game was going to end, Jia Yi’s collapse and fainted in front of me. Makmai was shocked and the three of us quickly lifted her up unto a chair. One of the Khmer brought an electric fan (wow!). Ps. Mok suspected that Jia Yi ate too much carbohydrate and that lead her into a slow metabolism, plus the crowd and the smell of burning charcoal, she just beh tahan and black out. That might be right but the fact that she doesn’t even touch a piece of vegetable is the main reason. TOO WEAK to tahan. Her situation is so scary. You must see her eat Cha Kueu Diao. By the time she finishes her dish, you will see one small patch of bean sprout and another patch of vegetables aside. She actually picks up everything per scoop, imagine the EXCELLENT SKILL she have!!!! Well enough of that…. By the way, she’s just fine after a little rest.
RDI(Resource Developement International) http://www.rdic.org . That’s our next stop. How do I describe, I might as well quote it from their website
RDI-Cambodia is a U.S.- Registered, Private, Non-profit, Organization working internationally. We are dedicated to serving the people of Cambodia in dynamic ways. Through numerous ambitious projects RDI has combined technology, education, and heart in order to help the people of Cambodia. While each project stands independent in its own right, the entire range of projects form a unique and strong outreach program that can only exist as a sum of all its parts. RDI is truly unique in this fashion and continues to receive accolades from its colleagues, benefactors, and local and regional governments.
to be continued….
coming soon.
Joshua reporting out…………….
