This morning we had a wonderful opportunity to visit a Khmer Pegota that is very close to our hotel with Sugarcane man. (the Cambodian guy who runs a sugar cane juice stand) we thought we were just going to see the temple on a normal day, cept today was a bit special. Recently (a couple months ago) a monk died in Tra Vinh, when they were cremating his body some special lights shone around signifying that he had reached enlightenment (not really sure about all the details, just typing how it was explained) so every wednesday they had a vegetarian meal and celebrated him reaching that state. Today was the last day in that celebration period so there was a ton of monks and people there for the celebrations. We made the mistake of eating breakfast before going to the temple, right when we got there we were seated down, given a bottle of water, then moved to another table where they had a full blown lunch set. I love the Khmer food, but I was so stuffed from breakfast, I nibbled on some rice and had a couple pieces of fruit, but eating any more and I would get sick. While we were at lunch we got to see one of the teachers, this would have been ok, except that this teacher is an avid buddist evangelist. Seeing us at the table she came over, said hi, then went right into talking about buddism. This too me by surprise, normally if you see someone at a restaurant you walk over, say hi, then move on so they can finish their meal. This wasn't on her agenda, she pulled up a chair and started a full theological debate. Abi did an extremely good job talking with her, though we decided that a debate on religion wasn't the best to be held at a buddist celebration in a pegota with 200 other buddists. We had to work really hard to leave and try to plan meeting with her another time at a coffee shop.
After our team meeting we went out for a late lunch at Jolibee's (apparently there's one in the states) it's a McDonalds style fast food restruant, not too impressive (though their ice cream was rather delicious).
with lunch over we headed back to our hotels to rest for a couple hours before our nightly activities (soccer & night classes)
A rather slow day today, tomorrow and friday will hopefully have much more in store
On another note: I've slowed down my picture taking ( though I've taken 8800) not much, but a little, can't wait to plan my return trip (dates and details still unknown)
Thank you for praying for us
Soli Deo Gloria
Brandon Goodyear
You do realize everyone on the other side of the street is staring at us right?
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