Village: Day 3 - Emily and Abbie

Hiya everybody, this is Emily and Abbie. We are doing a joint blog on the 3^rd day of the village. We woke up one fine morning to sweltering heat and ridiculous humidity. Ok maybe it wasn’t that bad but it was pretty dang hot. We woke up that morning and ate a nice breakfast and after that it was off to work. We had done a lot on the first day of work but there was still a lot to do. We had to finish digging the toilet hole, we also had to lay down concrete, and clear up the debris. We were on the digging team. We had been going at a fairly slow place when one of the villagers (whose name happened to be Bung) asked if he could dig the hole also, and who were we to disagree? The villager was a monster digger. He dug very deep by the time his friend (La) showed up. They were both very efficient at digging. We took a break and learned that La spoke some English so we talked to him for a while. Break time was over so we went back to moving the dirt they dug. We accidentally dropped one of the buckets and it got all over peter, Bung and La. After that I had started throwing mud at Abbie and then we both started throwing mud at Peter. We were pretty sure that Bung and La thought we were crazy. However out of nowhere Bung started throwing mud and sooner or later we were in an all out mud war that Jon had joined. We had gone to clean up but that it self turned into a water fight with a giant spider. We finally had finished digging the hole after many obstacles we finally got to put in the plumbing. It was so exciting. After that we had started to lay concrete and we got dirty again, we were so close to being finished but it was too much for one day so we decided to wait until the next one. After we finished work the boys wanted to go and play soccer with the villagers so we all went to watch. They asked us if we wanted to join but we politely declined. We soon left the soccer game in favor for the hot springs for a nice cold shower and some huge spiders. After we were all cleaned and showered we went back for dinner, which consisted of fried onions, bamboo shoots and a fried leaf. Som had asked if anyone wanted to eat the flying squirrel that Pastor pong had shot. There were 3 takers Jon, Dan and Peter. Dan the lucky boy got to eat the eyeball, but they all agreed that there wasn’t enough meat to tell what it tasted like. So Som seeing them try the flying squirrel asked if they wanted to eat some frog (which by the way smells like a rotting corpse). There were 5 takers Jon, Dan, Peter, Rick and Jordan. Rick did not like it but the others said it tasted like burnt bacon. After dinner we sat out on the porch as Pastor Pong and another man went hunting and asked Jon if he wanted to go but he declined and we all went to bed with nice full tummies. Yep we are having a lot of fun here in Thailand and hope to have more experiences.