Monday and tuesday

Yesterday got up and went to red cross office, don't think they really understood what i wanted. just wanted to find out about what they do in cambodia with red cross etc. nice building etc they have there and from reading a leaflet sounds as if mainly female volunteers and they help in ways with kids etc here. also seen them diverting traffic 1day? who noz?
in the afternoon at new hope, i helped in the clinic again and did a couple of dressings. also searched town for stitch removers as two kids that had biopsies are due stitches out thursday. in the past they have just used scissors but stitches very close to skin in these 2girls. taught the kids in the class in afternoon and couple of kids would not let go of me as said they dont want me to leave this week. told them i would be back and their response was that every teacher says that but very rarely comes back - i will, just not sure when yet. wee boy ratana wanted me to go to the beach with them this weekend for a couple of days but i fly home tues morning and dont want to take chance of not getting back here in time to catch flight. would love to go to beach with them all though. haha. spent about an hour or two in the afternoon chatting to kerry at new hope and getting some ideas as to where to spend the money i raised. thinking i might use it towards improving the classroom or towards building a new classroom as they need an extra 1. kerry was saying it is easier to get donations for smaller things such as bikes etc but when comes to bigger projects its very difficult to get the money. will think about it for next few days and decide.
in the evening we went into town and had dinner as nick, volunteer co-ordinator at globalteers was leaving to go back to teaching. came home earlyish as head was pretty sore, didnt drink enough water yesterday and thats probably why. then at night when got off phone to mum i was a bit upset, haha don't know why because don't feel homesick and don't want to leave here.

Tuesday morning......got up early again this morning and set off before 9am, out to new hope to meet kerry. we got shown around the village. we went in new hope car and there was about 15 of us in total in 1 vehicle haha. good fun though. first of all we met a wee old granny who was desperate to show us her house, she looks after her grandchildren as their parents are dead and she wanted no windows in her house so locals could not see her grandaughter as if they did apparently they would want to marry her to get the land they live in. wee granny was lovely and the 6volunteers from oz kitted her out in new outfit. from there, we went on to visit the next family who turned out to be sylvia's sponsor family, when the translator explained to them who i was they mother ran up to me and gave huge hug and she would not let go. these people are sooooo lovely and sylv, they look like they are doing fab and have their house now. wee boy has artificial limb and is adorable. the story goes on, all these families we visited are fab people and literally have very minimal. real eye opener but yet they teach us all something as they are still happy the majority of them.
in the afternoon, went back out to new hope and was helping in clinic again. a 20year old guy came in with horrific burns, he was in a house fire 3 or 4 weeks ago...had burns on back, arms, leg and hands. with very minimal dressings etc we did the best we could and have asked him to come back on daily basis for us to see them. it was his house that went up on fire so he is now staying with his gran so we decided to take him home and see their set up. they have 2 wee huts which in total there are 13people staying there. they earn under 80,000 riel a month which is not even 20dollars. their huts are also in very very poor condition and will require work before the rainy season. he has no clothes as all his were burnt in fire so im going in to market tonight to get some tshirts, shorts etc for him. couldnt leave him with nothing and going to go and get some dressings, stronger painkillers etc with nurse tomorrow morning which i am also going to put some money towards from the money i raised.