With cool carvings inside Angkor Thom (Hailey and I)
At one of the random old temples we went to on the last day. Everyone climbed on the elephant, I took pictures from down below :D
This one is along the walkway into Angkor Thom.
I wish I could upload a ton of cool pictures...unfortunately, blogspot is difficult. (If you have facebook, check for cool Cambodia pictures in a couple days). I spent three days exploring Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom, Ta Prohm, and various other super cool places that ridiculously old. The movie Tomb Raider with Angelina Jolie was shot in Ta Prohm and I have cool pictures from there. It's the temple that the French decided to leave the way they found, so it has hundred year old trees growing on top of, inside, and next to it.
Before that, we taught English to Cambodian children in Phnom Penh for four days. It was super fun. The kids were adorable, and really eager to learn. We taught them songs like "You Are My Sunshine," the "Hokey Pokey," and "If You're Happy and You Know It." :) That was one of the best parts of Cambodia. The boy I worked with the most showed up with drawings for everyone, and he gave me a super cool colored picture that he drew :D
We're back in Phnom Penh, and we leave to go back to Chiang Mai, Thailand on Sunday. In Thailand, there is a festival called "Songkran" that is a three day holiday. During those three days (and the day before and the day after), people throw water at each other. I'm not talking about the occasional water gun. Bob said that you can't go anywhere without getting soaked, and schools shut down for the festival because it's just mass chaos. I'm really excited :D I'm going to get a water gun. So we have Songkran, and then we have three days of Thai writing classes, and then we go to the beach! It's going to be awesome. I come home in 18 days!
But first, tomorrow we are playing with Cambodian orphans for a couple hours at an orphanage outside the city.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
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