Journey to Peace Village

Friday was an incredibly hard day. It started off badly, as I stepped off the bus I was blindsided by a bicycle. My leg got cut up and bruised. Luckily Chantelle was with me and had water to wash off the cut. When I arrived at school, the finger treatment continued. My finger became very blistered, and they had the doctor look at it! Ms. Canh wanted me to cut off the area, I wasn't sure. The doctor wanted me to have laser surgery on my hand. I wasn't too keen on that. After a long morning, Chantelle and I took the Xe Om home. The motorbike was cutting in between a bus and another vehicle. He skidded to a stop and lost his balance and we went tumbling. Luckily we both were all right although I was totally jittery from everything that had gone wrong.
I went home and decided to take Ms. Canh's advice. I didn't want to have laser surgery in a foreign country with a doctor I couldn't communicate with. I cut it off and my finger started bleeding a lot. I gauzed it up and bandaged it. I sought out Mr. Hung, one of our program supervisors and he helped me get another motorbike to a medical clinic on Embassy Row. There I was treated by an Australian doctor who fixed up my finger just fine. On the way home, the motorbike driver got lost, he couldn't find my address and I could not find the paper I had shown him, I was just too burnt out and upset. He dropped me off near the American Embassy and I found my way to a bus stop and home. So ended my toughest day so far....