Sunday, May 25, 2008

Cambodia & Thailand Trip

I'm back from Cambodia! The trip was amazing. I don't know where to start. We spent most of our time working with orphans from three different orphanages. One of the orphanages was in a village with no electricity or running water, when we worked there, we lived with the kids and learned to take bucket showers and sleep on the tile floor. It was a cool experience. However, my favorite kid was at a government orphanage in Battambang. He was named Lyda and was 1 1/2 years old. Sadly, he had hepatitis B and was a little sickly. I visited him many times and by the time I left, he was sad to see me go. (I have pics if anyone wants to see them.)
A cool thing about Cambodia was our transportation was mottos which are a cross between a motorcycle and a vespa. They were so much fun to ride. We also rode tuktuks, but I liked the mottos more. They were awesome.
Another thing we did was clean an AIDS hospital. I'll leave it at that. I would never go there again. It was my least favorite part of the trip.
After the missions part of the trip, we went to Thailand for a few days before flying home. There is a mall in Bangkok that is amazing! It is full of designer clothing stores and car dealerships (nice cars like mazaratti and porsche). In the bottom was an aquarium (the biggest in southeast asia) which had sharks. You could rent glass bottom boats to go boating in the aquarium or you could scuba dive. Unfortunately, we couldn't afford to go. In the top of the mall, there was a movie theatre which showed western movies. The seats were leather recliners, and the people massaged you and fed you during the movie. (With GTC rules about movies, there wasn't anything we were allowed to see, but it looked awesome!)
Well, I have tons of stories about different things that happened, so talk to me if you want to hear more! :P

5 Comments:

Blogger Trebonte said...

Talk to you?! Well... I guess I can do that if I -have- to...

*smile*

I'm looking forward to hearing all your stories from your trip! I'm also very interested in seeing your pictures. You definitely need to share them with me!

Soon you'll be done with GTC~ How exciting is that?!

11:27 AM  
Blogger Emily said...

I'm super excited to come home and kick it with friends this summer. When do you get out for the summer?

7:30 AM  
Blogger Trebonte said...

Kick it... What's "kick it?" Surely it's not kicking the can! Oh wow... Centralia life has truly turned you to pursuits of entertainment that I thought would die out decades ago...

My last final is on the 10th of June. Only a couple more weeks for myself~ Then... time to get my work schedule in order.

I hope to do many things this summer... Oh... why does my Dad's words alway come to mind?

9:32 PM  
Blogger Emily said...

Actually I plan on working full time. However, there will still be time after work for hanging out with my friends. I've found how pointless free time is here when there isn't anyone to hang out with. So I'm really looking forward to being back with my friends.

9:10 AM  
Blogger Hope said...

i am glad to hear that you had a lot of fun on ur missions trip..i remember when i went to mexico..it was definitely a life changing experience. we should get together really soon! :)

12:43 PM  

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