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Hi everyone, Had our last weekend back in Battambang as still had things we wanted to see there. We went to the big lakes by the dams that the Khmer rouge built. It is a popular place with Cambodian locals who go there for the day and swim in the lake. We hired out one of the small bamboo huts on the lakeside and lay and chilled in the hammocks in between swimming in the water. It wasn't very clean water, a yellowy colour with lots of slimy plants on the bottom and floating about along with lots of big fish apparantly but no crocodiles this time so a little dirt didnt hurt!!Some little boys came and played with us in the water we were having swimming races and they were diving off the edge, so cute I could have brought them all home with me! We also had a picnic there with our moto drivers just like the Khmeis do,it was so nice. Our drivers were really good fun to we told lots of jokes, helped them with their English and the attempted to teach us more Khmei and we had a big water fight, good fun! That was the main thing on our list to do in Battambang so we got the bus back to Phnom Penh early the next morning, I dont think I will miss the long bus journeys when I get home, 12 hours in two days and the heat is unbearable, yep imagine the lovely smells!!!
Back at work, still sewing the same row of sequins but not complaining too much. I have been teaching the English class completely on my own for over a week now and Im really enjoying it, I feel like Im getting somewhere, and they all actually did their homework for me this weekend. I am really looking forward to my birthday, everyone at work is throwing me a party and they have even written me a song called 'When Laura departs from CHA', they are so sweet and I get cake and everything. I am feeling so sad at the moment that I am going to leave, as much as I want to come home, I feel like I have fostered a very large family for 3 months and now Ive got to say good bye, its horrible, Im going to miss them all so much!
Ok so will write once more before I leave and tell you all about my birthday and the weekend, lots of love, see you all soon, Laura xxx
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