Today Scott and I are skipping the wedding and going to bum around Phnom Phen. Most of our group has chosen to do the same. We are all tired and needed a day off to sleep late and have some down time.
We have been on a pretty tight schedule ever since we got here.
The week at the orphanage has been awesome!!!
We had more kids than we anticipated, including the village kids, every morning. We probably had around 110 to 115.
We did songs, stories, color sheets and games everyday with all the children. It was great seeing the village kids go home with their color sheets, hopefully their families will read the Bible stories on the back that are written in Khmer.
We would tell the kids from the village that our Bible school was over in the early afternoon so we could spend time with our orphans and do some bigger craft with them.
The girls at the orphanage love Haleigh! Haleigh taught all of our orphans to make friendship bracelets. They loved making those and they caught on very fast!
We also made picture frames to put their American family picture in. Like always they are so proud of those pictures!
They have them hanging on their walls right now!
Yesterday, our last day, we did our story and color sheet and told the village kids that they could take the cut piece of cardboard(what they used to color on everyday) home with them along with the little package of colors and we said good-bye to them. They were so excited that they got to keep the cardboard and colors!!
Then our orphans performed at the pastor's conference. They acted out the story of the birth of Jesus and they sang "This is the Day" in both English and Khmer. They were so cute!! The pastors really enjoyed it...especially when Michael flew the angels in!! Everyone was laughing!
The hardest thing was leaving. This year the kids walked with us to the ferry landing and waved to us as we pulled out. Their were lots of tears shed.
It has been a wonderful week. The ties we have here are so strong.
But I'm ready now to come home.
Jan
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