If it's Saturday, it's Zac and cricket

Day 10
Zac

This morning at 7am a group of us went to the markets for our usual ice coffee or cane sugar juice and doughnuts. We also bought a hat, bought some badminton gear found a jewelry shop. The people who didn't go to the market slept in and when everyone was back we had some bread rolls and fresh fruit for breakfast. Then we headed for the orphanage.

On the way to the orphanage we had an amazing fruit smoothie. When Tron got a durian one everyone tried it and struggled to keep it down. The taste as well as smell is soooooooo bad that you gag at the smell and throw up if you eat more than a few grams. After we had the smoothies we made our way to the orphanage. On the way Ben had a collision. There was an older Cambodian women riding on the wrong side of the rode with a bucket of soup hanging off her handle bars and Ben collided with her. Both parties ended up with chicken noodle soup covering their shirts and Ben got a scolding in Khmer. But Lynne stepped in calming the women down and saving Ben.

At the orphanage a few of the kids showed some of us how to make bracelets. Even Geoff gave it a shot but in his words "failed miserably and shouldn't do any arts and crafts". But for the rest of us we picked it up and started making them. While we were making them the English girls were putting up a new bottom half on all the walls of the classrooms. We could only watch them suffer and strain for so long before we helped them. That ended up taking half of the afternoon but we got most of it done and we are going to finish it off tomorrow. Then the real competition was on. The ultimate rivalry between the Poms and the Aussies. The Ashes.

The Ashes was really intense. All us Aussies were really cocky before we started but when we played we got a bit of a shock. The Aussies fielded first and got a bit depressed when we saw that the English could actually hit 4s. They ended up with 10/42. Then when we started batting we were down 8/32 with a duck, a golden duck and I even got a diamond duck! But then The Tron was in and he saved the day hitting 3 4s in his first over and then another 5 or 6 in the following overs. And the important thing is we are bringing home the Ashes!

After the Ashes it was Australia vs Cambodia. The Cambodian team was very good with three VERY fast bowlers and a batsman that scored a 4 nearly every ball we almost got beaten. They finished with all out for 79. Nic and I opened the batting getting about 30 or 40 runs. After a while we were equal score with only one wicket to spare. But Jasmine won it for us with a 4. One of the best things about both games was the umpiring which was done by Andy with a bit of bias against the Aussies. It was all very fun and everyone had a good laugh.

After the Ashes we had to head back to the Centre. Jasmine, Anna and I took a scenic route and went to the Tela petrol station for our first ice cream in 10 days. When we got back we had our debriefing and a nice chicken dinner and got into bed.

Lynne- Sent from my iPad