where cider meets condensed milk: Spirit into concrete: for Noah Simring

where cider meets condensed milk

Sunday, May 20, 2007

Spirit into concrete: for Noah Simring

To Santa And His Ho's... And Sean, the kids, the PEPY worker bees, our RDIC hunks, the buff Cambodian men who cleaned up all our messy work, and to everyone who helped us fundraise the money for this project... otsukaresama deshita! (Thank you for your work, o honorable tired people!)

And from our constant memories of Noah, here is the rainwater collection tank that we built in concrete. Last year on our final house-building day, we joined the boys of Sangkheum Center for a soccer kickaround. We were all too hot to move in the pre-storm air, and most of us were dragging feet through the dusty grass, willing the ball to be on the opposite end of the field. Daniela had promised us sugarcane juice if we put out a good effort. The PEPY Nearly Dozen soccer "team" was no match for the superhuman Sangkheum squad, but Dane kept yelling at us lazy ones to keep running, and Noah was out there fighting for every ball to the end. We lost by a landslide and were flirting with heatstroke, but then we got our sugarcane juice as promised and everything was better again. Noah was always the one giving 110% effort, and it's that spirit that Nat and I wanted to carry into this year's GW trip. Noah, you are missed and loved!

Waiting by the ferry on our last day, Mama Glamalie explains how to use a fancy camera. The saddest part of leaving was the kids kept saying, "See you to-morrow? See you to-morrow?" and we had to say no, and just accept hug and kiss attacks instead.

posted by Raychaa @ 8:11 PM

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