This is the first time I've been able to get to a computer in the last ten days-ish! It's been a rather busy week to say the least, so sorry for the delayed update.The ailments that accompanied my sickness on Sunday were not great; being bed bound in a hot foreign country is not my idea of fun. Having wasted the day feeling sorry for myself, I ventured out to Ra's (our resident tùk tùk driver) "homeland" to celebrate Khmer New Year with his family and friends ...

Following a very harrowing weekend in Phnom Penh, this week has been a busy one. We've been doing something every day so we're not sat in our room twiddling our thumbs surrounded by Cambodia's absolutely immense culture. After our extremely tedious/monotonous yet exhausting journey back from PP, we had an evening's dinner and traditional dancing show to attend at the "Koulen Restaurant". I think it was the all you can eat buffet that enticed me more than the...

Insightful. Enlightening. Developmental. Discovery. Ignorant. Harrowing. Chilling. Disturbing. Disgusting. Difficult. Itense. Sickening. A jumble of words that together, to you, probably don't make much sense. Those are the words that, I think, summarise the experience I've had this weekend in Phnom Penh. I'm going to try and give you an understanding of the places I saw and the way they impacted me, but I don't know yet how well I can (apologies if this one get...

Soos-saday! Phonetically this is hello in Khmer (the Cambodian language). I'm going to give you a nice, hopefully brief, update of my travels and experiences in the last few days. The first week of teaching was, indeed, challenging to say the least. As I mentioned in my last post, I was becoming more frustrated with my class as the week went on … the polar opposite of what I thought would happen (cries*). I thought you were supposed to make progress?! I su...

Excuse a very belated post, I've been suffering with writer's block as of late. Also, if this post is full of mumbling and a babble of illogical sentences then I apologise in advance (sorry*). So, where did we get up to? Aaaah, Monday… Well there's not that much to report of the week in KK. As Anna and I had both decided what we were doing the night that we got the phone call from Travellers, all we did, it seemed, was wait to see when we were leaving, what wa...