Thursday, March 7, 2013

Just an 'ordinary' day?


Titus Cheng is a modest sort of guy, he doesn't think that what he does is in any way remarkable. I, having spent some time with him and his wife Maria at the Newhope childrens home Poipet on a couple  of occasions now, beg to disagree.
When asked to describe his 'ordinary' day for the purposes of this blog, he told me there wasn't anything unusual about it.
Except that most days...

He
Wakes at 4am, washes, goes to see his children Christine and Peter.
Waters the garden at his Poipet house.
Goes to the childrens home.
Prays.
Works in the grounds of the childrens home, cutting grass, maybe attending the fruit trees.
Dinner at 11.30am (cooked by the other Maria, teacher Ratana's wife)
Teaches the children and then plays with them, some go to school in Poipet.
Ratana teaches children.
Titus works in the projects fields.
5pm he goes home for a rest and bath, spends some time with his family.
Goes to Kolbot primary school to teach english and maths from 7-9pm.
Then he goes home.
Goes to bed at 10pm.
Wakes at 4am and on it goes...
Yes, well I'd say it was quite a remarkable day anyway...