This is just a quick update. Yesterday we visited a floating village. To get to this village we rode on our tuk-tuks for two hours and then took a one hour boat ride to the village. The village is made up of houses on this lake. The lake is very shallow and the water looked and smelled like pure mud. We saw a Cambodian floating village and a Vietnam floating village. The Cambodian village stays on the water a few months and then moves their houses to the main land. The Vietnam village, however, lives on the water all year round. The purpose is fishing. The villagers fish and then sell them to the market.
On our two hour tuk-tuk ride yesterday we went through many villages on land. It was an eye-opening experience. To witness how some people live every day made me realize how much I take things for granted. These villages didn't have running water or electricity. There houses are huts made out of bamboo. Most of the children weren't fully clothed. They would see us coming down the road and run to the road to wave to us and yell "hello" or "goodbye."They were so cute.
Today we are going to build a toilet in a village. It is more like an outhouse, not a toilet inside some one's house. I'm actually looking forward to it. I want to help the village and interact with people who live there. It is going to be 93 degrees today also. I'm going to eat breakfast and then we are heading to the village!
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