Just Add Children

So, this is just an update... it's been really hectic around here since right before the election. I'll have some proper 'article' posts up soon, once I have time to myself.
So, Monday the first 5 kids came. They're all either siblings or cousins to one another. Long story.
They're great. All of them have grown up almost completely in orphanages. They're all smiles and very polite. Some of them have pretty good English for having come from the crappy place they did. It's very different around here with kids running around.
When they came, Peter (our main employee... who speaks barely passable Eglish) and I were the only ones here. Sam was taking some Swiss travellers to the school in Kampot Speu (not to be confused with Kampot ) and Anne had gone to the market.
I almost shit myself with fear. Me? I'M supposed to welcome them? I speak no Khmer (well...) and, hey Peter, what are we going to do? C'mon, they're here... c'mon! Hi! ------
saved. Anne has apparently pulled up at the gate when they did, so she's there. My heart starts beating again.
So, that goes fine. The next day, one more comes. She's 11... or so they say. Khmer people don't really pay attention to or care about that. Not poor ones anyway. She could be 9. Who knows. She was bought for $80 from her mother by the cook of Nader, the guy who runs Aziza's Place. The cook bought her to save her from the brothel or the factory. She is not very open, not very smiliey. Her hair is all cut off because of lice and so she looks like a boy a little bit. She smiles every now and then, so I think, I HOPE that she likes where she is better than where she was.
I'm moving into a guest house tonight since there's no place for me to sleep here. I slept on the vinyl sofa last night. Did I mention it's 80-90 degrees here at all times. And humidity of at least 75%..... vinyl.
No air conditioning....
So, I smell great.
Anyway, I'll have more up soon as I said. I'll have my own place of sorts and will be able to lock myself away at the end of the day and focus.
Till then.