Hey Have had a pretty wild weekend by all standards!!! On friday night most of us decided to explore the night life of Phenom Penh... very interesting. Some of the girls who I share the apartment with had their friends over, so there was a decent crowd with 4 strapping males (a requirment for nights out!) We made the most of the cocktails at lakeside before heading off to the drunken frog for a delishious Khemer curry! Eventually, we went to the legendary Hear...

... just read everyone's messages, thanks so much for writing. It's really nice to hear from you... and the fact that most of you are stuck in temperatures below 20 degrees C with work to do, mwah ha ha ha!!!! Well, you can take small comfort in the fact that teaching the kiddies is pretty hard too. xxxxc p.s. Haz, I got it as an email on hotmail

Hello Have spent all week attempting to teach the kiddies body parts.... I think about 3 have sunk in!!! They have the mories of goldfish! Bless their cottons! The picture above is a tuck tuck, which is what we travel everywhere in, however, I must say, our's look much nicer than that grotesque thing!!! Mr Pay is our driver and is soooo nice! I have become mosquito pie!!! I totally jinxed myself when I said that i had not been bitten yet! They are mega itchy...

Hello Not sure what i wrote last time... I've started teaching my class- not a huge success so far because I'm trying to implement a new reward system, but my khemer teacher who translates doesn't get it herslf!!! Its quite tricky as she doesn't understand much I say! Yesterday Bianca and Ailsa (who are both lovely) and I went to S-21, which is the place where the khemer rouge tortured and questioned over 14000 people... only 7 survived! We then went to the kil...

Hello everyone Thanks for all the messages... what do you mean when do I start work??? I started on the second dya I got here! The centre where I'm working is such an amazing place, the children really have absolutely nothing... which means that they haven't really had much discipline in their lives up till njow!!! so can be little monsters but are so cute! I have no idea what any of them are called.... hthere names are so hard to remember! I can't upload t...