I must have had a good night’s sleep, because my enthusiasm
returned. I had discovered the Addams
Family tune and a song for the days of the week. I’m not sure the children quite understood
what days of the week were, but they loved the tune. We wrote the days of the week on the board,
and the children, with some assistance from Ravy, wrote it in Khymer.
This writing is definitely more
like drawing. The writer writes, then
stands back, and adds dots or squiggles, or maybe a wavy line there?
The
children are getting more and more affectionate. They love hugs and cuddles, and being
tickled. I watched a group of them
playing make-believe games over lunch time, which included vampires, and wooden
stakes, and the tuk-tuk as a coffin!
We saw a dead snake on the road on the way home. I think it was poisonous and was a definite reminder
that life isn’t so idyllic. I had been
thinking about how different their lives are, no computers, no television,
running around with their friends, riding bikes and playing football in the
road, but there was a stark reminder that their life has its own dangers, dirty
water, poor sanitation, lack of education, and snakes!
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