------------------UNDERNEATH THE SURFACE------------------ (Sex Trade Documentary)

8/15/09 (Sat) It’s 4:30am and I’ve already been up for 30 minutes! We are doing the sunrise tour at Angkor Wat, which will be awesome and I’m sure well worth getting up at this god awful time of the day… Angkor Wat was amazing! We went all over the place and saw some amazing temples. I am so glad we did it. The sunrise was beautiful. Our guide was amazing and good at taking us places that other tourists weren’t and at the right time of the day to miss the rush. He was incredibly knowledgeable and spoke amazing English. It was really cool to see the “Tomb Raider” temple, now only called that because the end of that movie was filmed there. That’s not why I liked it, in fact I never saw the movie. I liked it because it was really cool to see the crazy trees growing up on the rock and I had seen amazing pictures of it and was looking forward to seeing it first hand. By the end of the day we were really dragging. It was so beyond hot we were sweating so bad, we were tired from waking up so early and walking so much that I think we were pretty templed out at the end. We get to go back tomorrow though. Becky will be leaving though. I’m glad that she was able to come up for a little bit though.

After showers we went around the market area again and I got some gifts today and finally spent some money. I am really excited for Kevin to see his gift, I think he will really like it, I hope so anyway. We had some awesome Indian food and right outside the restaurant was a band playing some wonderful Cambodian music. Steph, Becky, and I had to buy a CD it was so great, plus all the musicians are people who have been injured from land minds.

I’m not feeling to great, so I think I’m not going to go to the temple for sunrise again with the other women. I haven’t slept much this entire trip and I can feel that if I don’t take care of myself I’m not going to do well at all. I will just go back later for the sunset, I’m really looking forward to that.