The Children of Cambodia

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Cambodia has been an amazing experience. It's rich culture and history has been an eye opening experience, something we will keep with us forever. We truly know the definition of culture shock now. Our most rewarding experience has been living and teaching the children in the poor, rural village of Pangna. We worked with a wonderful group of kids so eager to learn. Unfortunatley, the resources to a proper education are unavailable. If you interested in helping just shoot us an email.

"Some parts of the world you make a conscious effort to visit and others have to wait until fate delivers you there." - Tony Hawks

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Photos

Classtime
Brooke teaching the class this was only a class of 40 somedays it is up to 88.

Meticulous & Shit Head
These are two of our favorite students. Can you guess who is who?

In Front of the School
Hopefully a child would show up with the key because when they didnt this is where class takes place.

Our little ladies
We cant go two steps without all of holding hands with all these girls. Everywhere we go a parade.

Dancing Girls
They loooveee to sing and dance for us

Our Favorite Girl
Quiet and Sweet how we like them.

Our Home
This is our 1 room house shared with a family of 7.

The 1 room
Our livingroom/bedroom/laundryroom/study

Topea Chicken
The all look distinguished with thier Topeas and traingle of chest hair....hours of entertainment.

The Village Shop
Where you can purchase warm beer or noodles lots of noodles.

Our Family
The younger host family children (I wont even attempt to write thier names) with the Family Cow

Brooke in the kids
In the backyard behind her is the barrels of rainwater for bathing, drinking, and cooking and the "bathroom" where the dreaded skink lives in the toilet/hole in the floor

The Village Pagoda
We arrived at the start of the 15 day buddhist festival that involves alot of chanting starting at 3:30am and goes all day and into the night which can be heard throughout the entire village.

The 1st and best day of the Festival
We taught the men the joys of funneling with limited supplies... a cut open water bottle.

Lehoe and Mom
After school the adult women gather in the sewing shop while Brooke and I have a warm Angkor beer and teach them English. Baby Lehoe does excellent "hello"

Host Mom
This is our host mother while only a few years older then us she is the only surviving sibling of Pol Pot's Regime and the Mother of 4 children, the oldest being 16. She likes to feed us as if we were growing teenage boys.

S-21
The old school in Phnom Penh which the Khmer Rouge used as a prison and tourture site

The Killing Fields
The monument at the Killing Fields where some of the 2 million victims of the genocide were executed. You can still see human bones on the ground.

Laos Transportation
This is the popular method of transportation. From experience I can say its not comfortable

Laos Sky
The sky in Laos is the most beautiful site. Unfortuntaly we lost all the pictures on our camera so this is the only one we had left.

Comments

[Eric Frank]

Hey girls
It looks like you girls are having a great time. I am sure that you are touching the lives of those children. Keep up the good work. Stay safe. God bless. Eric Frank