OMFG it hurts so badly to sit! The roads suck, and I'd rather eat moldy eyeballs than spend 5 more days doing this. Okay, maybe not the moldy eyeballs part. What makes this all worthwhile is the stopping points. We bought 4 school uniforms, more books, and some candy to deliver to kids along the way. It's so wonderful seeing their faces light up with joy. At first they're really scared of me, because i don't think they see many westerners out here (note: we met two others in the entire week). But after 10 minutes or so, they're laughing and playing with me. We stopped first at a buddhist pagoda to pray, and a lot of people were inside chatting (a group of old men and a couple of families.) heang showed me some of the ritual so that I felt like I was genuinely participating. I felt really funny in such a sacred place, being stared at so because I'm a foreigner, but not in any sort of bad way. I had my forture read - all good. Heang's was first bad, then good. Sounds about right. Along the way, we stopped at Banteay Chhmar temple to see the ruins. Well, first to eat something because I was losing steam. We had the best sweet sticky rice and red beans packed in bamboo and a bunch of bananas. A group of boys waited and played while we ate (mimicking WWF which is on ALL OF THE TVs here!) Then they followed us around all over the place - they were so CUTE! The ruins are amazing, better than Ta Prohm in Angkor, and we were the only visitors. Heang took my camera and got a lot of pictures. Good thing, too because the heat was getting to me pretty badly.
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