Thursday, August 20, 2009
8/20/09 (Thur) Last night my legs were as red as they were Tuesday. My skin on my legs was so tight from my sunburn that I could barely straighten my legs! If it wasn’t for the melaleuca oil I’d probably be hurting even worse. Too bad I didn’t get to put it on the day I got burnt, I probably wouldn’t even hurt now if that was the case. I had let Athena borrow it though because she had a nasty scrape on her arm, the poor thing. Oh well, at least I have it now. I pray I don’t peel so I wont look scary for my mom’s wedding, especially where I can’t reach to put the oil on! Sorry I keep complaining about this, but I have only had one worse burn in my life and laying in bed last night it felt like my legs were all bruised even. They feel and look quite a bit better today though. The oil is quite refreshing. :)
Yeah, so all of the filming is done and we transferred all the video from the second tape to my computer/external hard drive. Sola helped me figure out which takes were the best, since I don’t speak Khmer. I could have sworn I grabbed the right tapes, but none of the tapes I had were the first tape, so I’ll have to find that and hopefully Sola can come over tonight and we can finish with what we started. I feel an all nighter editing session will have to occur this evening.
It’s so funny watching people drive here in Cambodia. If anyone in America thought it was impossible to carry certain things on a motor bike, the Cambodian people could surely prove them wrong. You see six people on one tiny moto bike, babies, beds, crates of eggs, trailers being hauled, old men that can barely see, live animals, various things piled 6 or so feet high, you name it it’s been done here in Cambodia. :) People drive or walk around with little masks on all the time, either because they are sick, they don’t want to get sick, or because they had dental work that they don’t want people to see. I found that interesting when I learned it. What else…there are all kinds of interesting things here that I wish I remembered to write down. Guess you’ll just have to come here and see for yourself. :)
Okay, so I’m pretty much up s@*t creek without a paddle. I can’t seem to find the first tape that the girls filmed with!!! I don’t know if I somehow left it in my other room, before I left for Siem Reap, if it somehow dropped out of my bag, or if P-rome was messing around with my stuff like he does, and it’s now somewhere at TLC. Regardless of where it is, I wont get it before tomorrow, therefore no editing will occur, and everything has to be done tomorrow! I tore my stuff apart looking for it, and it is not here. Sola wanted me to meet at TLC at 7am tomorrow morning so that we could look over the video, the hotel said that I needed to check with the cleaning lady at 8am, class is suppose to start at 8:30am tomorrow. I don’t know what to do, I’m pretty much screwed. It’s all I can do just to keep from crying. :( I feel like everything surrounding video has gone wrong for me on this trip. It’s beyond ridiculous, and the crazy part is that it’s not like I have just been irresponsible and taken poor care of my stuff. I’ve worked really hard, sacrificing sleep and all for these girls and I feel like life keeps taking a crap on me where video is concerned. Grrrr!!!! I leave in 3 days and this is supposed to be done tomorrow! Sorry for that rant. Needless to say, PLEASE PRAY!
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Okay, so there is some good news and some not so good news. The good news is I’m not as dumb as it seemed…I thought that I only brought 6 used tapes for the girls to film with and I have 6 right here, and I was correct that that’s all that I brought. I also now know that I didn’t loose or leave the first tape the girls filmed on anywhere. Now comes the not so good news, somehow the “2nd” tape is really the first tape that somehow got rewound and taped over! I can almost guarantee it was when P-rome was messing around with the camera. :( Oh man. We’ll I don’t have to keep looking for the tape at least, but now I have to figure out what the heck to do. The goal was to have a finished DVD for all the girls by tomorrow, but that obviously can’t happen. Maybe there is some way that we can RE-shoot all the girls tomorrow and I’ll just have to work on the film when I get home and send it to them. I don’t know what to do. :( I’m sad/frustrated.
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I just called Sola and her and I agree that we could hit P-rome for this (not really I love the kid, but aaaahhh!). Well I guess three of the five girls that we have to reshoot will be there tomorrow morning and hopefully somehow reshoot the other two tomorrow afternoon sometime after my meetings. Please pray that this works out. Then I’ll just have to try to edit Saturday instead of going to the Killing Fields I guess. :( I really want to try to have a finished project for the girls before I leave, plus I don’t know when I’ll have time to do it when I get back anyway. Tonight will still be crazy trying to get everything edited besides the video that we will shoot tomorrow. Bring on the prayers please!!!
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Okay, so it is 1am and I have to get up in 5 hours, so I’d better get to bed. Please pray that I make it through the day and we get everything done that needs to get done please. Nigh night.
8 comments:
I'm probably the wrong person for this but... I just said a little prayer for you. Everything WILL work out fine in the end.
PS: Can't you extend your stay by a few days?
Nope, not possible
Hmmm....sleep well then. And when you wake up in the morning, remember that you've overcome a lot of odds and made it to Cambodia.
Many dream of following their passion and yet continue to sit on their butts, doing nothing but making excuses. You dreamed and you worked towards making it a reality. You are a doer - a rare minority in this world.
And you are one tough cookie :-) You're going to get the job done. May not be the way you planned it but you'll get it done. Just keep the faith - in God and in yourself.
Good night.....
.... and good morning :-)
That's so much for those wonderful words of encouragement, they helped. Whenever I get in stressful or sad times I always sing "Everything's gonna be alright, everything's gonna be alright, not woman no cry..." I think it's called No Woman No Cry by Bob Marley :)
Oh, and thanks for your prayers too. :)
Yeah, love that song
That's the thing about filmmaking - something ALWAYS goes wrong, no matter how well you plan. Don't beat yourself up about it. You've done a really great job.
I'm so proud of you. :)
Thanks :)
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