*Transcribed Journal Entry Day 09* 28.12.2010

We woke up and met two new volunteers who were already alseep when we got back from Ha Noi last night.  Catherine and Thibault from Belgium.  They are four months into a year long independent trip through Eastern Europe, Russia, China, and Asia.  They've been reporting on different volunteer programs all over.  They will stay with us until Thursday.

After breakfast, we headed back to the garden to work on weeding between the herbs and plants.  Quite monotonous and boring work.  Once the gardening was done, I realized I lost my water bottle, so I needed to go to the corner store and buy a new one during our 30 minute break before lunch.  While at the store, I notice five men de-hairing a dead dog.  I asked to the store owner if she thought it would be OK to take a photo, she said yes, so I went over and the men were more than happy to let me photograph them.  They even showed me the wound on his neck where it was hit by a scooter.  I went back to the orphanage to tell the others, and returned to Boseung.  By the time we got back the men had moved the dog to the other side of the road to burn it.  After taking a few more pictures, we went back and gathered the rest of the guys to recount the story.  We decided to go back and when we returned, the men had now moved to a house across the street and were in the process of chopping the dog up.  First they started with decapitating it, then cutting all the feet off.  Then the body was opened and the organs separated out.  Quite gruesome, I'll stop with the details, and let the photos detail the rest...

Needless to say for lunch and dinner, I didn't have the stomach for any meat!!!

The afternoon session with the kids included artwork and some playtime.  Having to watch the kids as a couple of them were fighting over a ball, one continued to try and eat crayons!!!  Definitely a handful...

After our session we had free time and decided to have a game of soccer with some of the older kids.  It ended up being a great game, good exercise, and fun to watch all our different cultures playing the same game.

Tonight is my last night of my 20's, tomorrow I'll be 30!!!!!!  :)