[BAVI World Tour!] Into the Heart of our Journey

[Baruch (Brad) Roter]

Today we arrived.

The wonderful and busy first phase of our trip has ended.

We are resting in profound gratitude for where we are now.

After a much-smoother-than-we-had-heard land crossing from Thailand into Cambodia, we were met by a friendly taxi driver (pre-arranged inexpensively by our amazing new hotel manager) and smoothly landed at the beautiful Golden Village Guesthouse in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Tears of gratitude and relief! We were warmly greeted by the two charming Cambodian women who work at the guesthouse.  We have noted each time we move on to a new country that the people have been more relaxed and happier.  This is certainly true today and we are so pleased to be amongst smiling and kind people. We have two large, beautifully appointed rooms at this gorgeous hotel for $25 a night total.  The volunteer coordinator and another leader of New Hope Cambodia, the organization we will be volunteering with starting next Monday, came over right away to welcome and orient us.  New Hope Cambodia has a school where Veronica, Isaac and Avi will help teach English, and a clinic where I will work.  They are located in Mondul 3, the worst slum in Cambodia (and I think that is saying something…).  The boys are in for a big lesson about how much of the world lives.

It feels so good to be on the verge of making a contribution for a great cause.

Veronica and I are both excited to have our own beautiful, peaceful room to relax and connect in.

What a blessed life we live!

Baruch (Blessed)

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Posted By Baruch (Brad) Roter to BAVI World Tour! at 11/09/2011 07:26:00 AM