| Wednesday, May 30, 2007 |
| Angkor Wat |
 Last day in Siem Reap... cue the tears! Also cue sweat dripping everywhere, because it was so freaking hot. And then cue a torrential downpour just before we made it back to the hostel. We met one of the 4th grade classes from the PEPY Ride school, and set off for our grand temple tour. Above is Bayon, which is my favorite. There are faces everywhere, which are assumed to be of Buddha, but the guide said they were actully of Brahma. (I think.) From there we went to lunch at a buffet near Angkor Wat, and then headed inside. Our guide again this year was Ta, which is a nickname that means "old man", and he's a rockstar. In Cambodia, it's considered lucky to let hairs grow from a mole, so he must be the luckiest man alive.
  Rocky and Snoopy, doing what we do best... being dorks.
 Our buddies, their teachers, Santa/Hoes/Sean/D, and the most famous temple skyline ever.
 Nozomi/Shinky with some of the kids, watching the unfolding amazement that was "Token Boy lying on his back and singing love songs to the adoring crowd." It turns out he was singing Unchained Melody (not Whitney Houston) but I couldn't hear very well over the screams of laughter. Sean is going for a PhD in Global Poverty next year, which is so awesome. We were all talking one night about volunteer movements and social change needing to go from so many different directions, and how our trip fits into all of that. If we all just come and volunteer for a few days and then do nothing to continue that spirit in our own lives and communities, then our work is not sustained and doesn't make anything but surface change. But when we are then inspired to go into education or economics or business or medicine with the motivation to change the existing structures of inequality in the developing/developed worlds, we have so much more power to actually affect long-term change. Gambarimasu.
 GQ: Angkor edition.
 This guy just put away his cell phone into his monk-purse (monkurse? monketbook?) as I snapped this.
 Brady Bunching: Snoopy, Ebi-chan, Risa, Glamalie, Gyoza, Birdie, Rocky, Token Boy, Shinky, Sakana no Hito. |
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