my first, almost full, day was good. when i got to the orphanage today, they were blowing up balloons and hanging them from a long string thing to hang across the roof. i think it's for their apsara performance. after this, i started teaching. today i taught them greetings, salutations and some nature things... it's kinda hard to teach the kids all together because some are older, some are younger... and i think the older ones get bored waiting for some the  younger ones to write everything down... it surprises me though, how quickly some of the younger ones write things down and how good their writing is. after a while, we ended up just drawing on the board... i got some pictures of their good drawing, however it definitely didn't compare to the things they were drawing before.
i also got to see how they washed their clothes today... i wasn't expecting this, thats for sure. they have a well pump in the back... one works at pumping water into a bucket (she was also pumping water for cooking)... and the other has the dirty clothes in a pile, a big bowl to put them in, laundry soap and a scrubber.. yup, the boy was scrubbing the clothes in a bowl to clean them... i found that kind of sad, i bought some laundry detergent to bring here,  but i'm pretty sure i just take my laundry downstairs and they take it and do it for me... so i will probably end up giving them the detergent.
i finally had a realish meal (that wasn't breakfast)... i ordered pizza! it's so hard ordering pizza over the phone because most of the people here don't speak english, or so it seems.... but it was a good meal, nonetheless... a well needed one, thats for sure. since i've been in siem reap, i've spent $20... and that was on my ticket to go to the waterfall yesterday. other times i've eaten, which is 2 other times not including breakfast, i've been given the meal.
something not so awesome about today is that i'm pretty sure caught pink eye from the kids... i noticed at the beginning of the day yesterday that one of the girls had it and on the way back from the mountain, another girl (who i was with all day) was also getting it... today when i went there, about 3 or 4 more of them had it... all day i didn't touch my eyes but when i came back to the hotel, my eye was getting irritated and mucus-y.. how great is that? i'm going to clean it constantly but if it doesn't get better, meng said he would take me to the doctor.