HOUSE BUILDING

SoOoOoooooo. The past two days have been super hot but who doesn't love a bit of sweat? Yesterday was pretty chill because we were travelling for the most of it. We woke up early to pack up and we headed off. We went to the War remnence which was awesome but I must admit it was pretty confronting. From there we went to the post office and it was the best thing ever seeing people talking to their parents on the phone. (Some people couldn't get through so don't be offended if you didn't receive a call). We sent off allllll our postcards and went on to the markets. They were actually bonkers. I think everyone got a couple of good buys but we didn't spend very long there. We stopped for lunch a couple hours later which waS SO YUM. We had the best smoothies; heaven in a drink. The trip from lunch to the Mekong was long but we were kept occupied by 'Captain America' which was being played in the TV. We finally arrived and were surprised how brown the water was (really brown), and hopped on a cute little boat which drove us to our beautiful home stay. The leaves on the trees here are so green and everywhere you look there are massive fruits (aka. Banana's as big as our heads). We unpacked and then rode on push bikes along the sweet little river sides to check out where we would build the house = lots if excitement. We rode home, had a fabulous dinner which consisted of rice, whole prawns (which got thrown at people and put in our hair), some soup stuff that no one ate, sweet potato chips and bean and pork dish. yumyumyumyum. After dinner, us kiddies had a sweet as Q&A sesh on the veranda. There were a couple of juicy questions which will never been repeated.... dun dun dunnnnnn. Everyone has fallen in love with the dogs and their ombré tails. The beds were comfy as and sleeping under mosquito nets makes us feel like princesses. 

Today was SMOKIN' HOT. We had an early start and a freakin" amazin' brekky = Vietnamese iced coffee, egg omelet, baguettes, weird rice things and jam. Delicioussssss. We got on a little boat and headed to our work site. The day started off with mixing cement and laying bricks. We had to carry a bazillion bricks. (Ugh). I think we mixed about 30,000 bags of cement. We had a break, carried on, then the rain came so we got an early lunch. Lunch was so so so so good. We had chicken and corn soup, steamed rice, pork and quail eggs, deep fried eggplant and prawns, noddle salad stuff, watermelon and mango steen. OMNOMNOM. we chilled out for an hour then headed back. By the afternoon everyone was kinda dead. We were sweating like crazy but we got fresh coconuts. We all got a turn at weaving leaves for the kitchen roof and did the same stuff as before. We finished at 5 which was nice because it was heaps shady and nice and cool. There was a really cute kitten which was the size of our hands and we were all so tempted to sneak it away with us. We came back and have all had th

e best showers EVER. we are about to help cook dinner which should be so yum. WOHOO. 

Syrenna and Millie xx