How much does a plastic shopping bag weigh? No, really, I need to know. Half a gram? One gram? Let's er on the side of generosity and say a plastic shopping bag weighs one whole gram. That means, you would need to collect one thousand plastic bags to end up with one kilo. OneTHOUSAND bags!!! Now imagine that you have to collect these one thousand platic bags by digging through large piles of filthy garbage. Now, for the 'icing on the cake', imagine that you are...

Thursday 5th Jan saw us up early & off to New Hope School for our usual morning of chaos & mayhem hopefully helping the Cambodian children learn to speak English. New Hope is in Mondul3 one of the poorest areas of Siem Reap & to give the people an opportunity to break the poverty cycle New Hope School is educating the children not only in Khmer but also teaching them another language (in this case English) so they can then get a job in the tourism in...

Yesterday after a good night sleep, we all gathered at the communal tables outside The Golden Villiage (our accommodation). We had to go through and sign the remaining paperwork required to teach at New Hope. The paper work just had the basic common sense things you shouldn't and should do when you are in the presents of the kids. After a good 40 miunutes of going through two pages of paper work, we hopped on a tuk tuk headed for the Cambodian Cultural Centre! ...