Day 38, a Prey Veng Village

     This morning  we woke up at 5am, to leave the house for 5:45. We met at the church to go to Prey Veng village and have church service with them. It was a 2.5 hour drive, so we rented 2 big vans. It was so early in the morning, but once we were on our way, I realized that this trip is once in a lifetime. These things we are doing, the places we are going, I may never be able to do again. This specific village is so remote and I know opportunities like these don't just come everyday. If I would have chosen to skip today and sleep in, I would have missed out on one of the most eye opening experiences of my life, yet.
     I know I mentioned the last village was remote, but this was on an entirely different level. That last village was a resort compared to the way these people live. Mind blowing, truly. We crossed over a handmade bridge, that had 3 huge holes in it. Praise the Lord we did not fall through. I was terrified! Most had no shoes. And they had make shift huts, all of them. Not a single decent home on the street we were on. No running water. They had to pump water out of a well and carry buckets down to their homes.

     Here are some of the stunning views on our way there. Beautiful! Most of this was rice fields and other crops. Majority of Cambodia is farming. As we passed by the field, people were mid-thigh deep working inside of them. Also, I learned 80% of the population of Cambodia lives this way. It is so hard to believe so many people in this world live this way. We truly are the exception living in America.

 

     Less than 45 seconds of being out of the vans, and I had my first near death experience (as in a I almost fell to the ground suffering from a heart attack). As they were taking down chairs for us to sit on, there was a HUGE SPIDER attached to the bottom of one, and do I mean HUGE! I am not exaggerating. These  insects here are ungodly huge. It was the size of my hand. Long legs. Scary!!! When it was knocked off the chair, it hopped away. Weirdest thing ever. After that moment, I was on guard for any scary unexpected creatures! To think these people don't have doors, and have huge gaps in their home, these spiders (and even worse) could be inside their homes. My mind honestly cannot wrap my brain around it. Frightening. I am scared for them. What if the step on one without shoes?!! But I guess if that's all you know, then its all you know.

 

Some pictures inside the village:

 

 

 

 

 Pictures of the kids:

 

 

 

 

6 day old baby! How sweet!

 Village street

 

 No shoes

 

 Praying for a girl

 

 

 Water Buffalo

 

Fishing

 

 Well balanced

 

 

 

     On the way home from the village, we were stopped outside the ferry and they had all these people passing by selling weird food on their heads. Sean got a bit adventerous, and bought an assortment of bugs: roaches, crickets, beetles, etc. So I tried a cricket! It taste like crunchy seasoning, but knowing that it was a bug prevented me from actually enjoying it!

    After we got home, we went grab lunch, ran a few errands, came home to relax, then pizza with Meygan. Very very very good day!