Together with Firqin, Christina and Isabel we decided to organize one big birthday party for all the orphans, since most of the orphans either don't know when it's their birthday or they never celebrated it before. A birthday party isn't a birthday party without a cake, so we drove to a local bakery this morning to buy one. Once we arrived we saw that they didn't have any cakes for sale that day. Luckily the Cambodian people are flexible so they immediately started baking one, that was ready in just 30 minutes! It saved the day!
Before I came to Cambodia, I made little dolls together with my aunt and cousin to give to the children. The birthday party was a perfect opportunity to donate the dolls as a present :) The kids where so happy with the home made gifts, balloons and the cake! I took a picture of each child with their own unique doll to show my friends who bought one but on some pictures it may seem that the kids are unhappy with their gift. The other volunteers said that it's a normal situation because the kids smile the whole day but when you want to take pictures and ask them to stand still they look sad and don't understand whats happening because we can't speak their mother tongue.
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