Blogs from East, Cambodia, Asia - page 2

What a special time. With Kratie English School, at home sweet home, with a kind Cambodian family, a grand group of fellow volunteers, wonderful friends. I ride up in the morning dust on a tuk tuk, welcomed warmly by the teachers, English and Canadian accents, big smiles.. And up at the teachers table (under welcome shade and with breakfast bananas) I watch the 10am lesson in motion. There's two outside classrooms at Rith's family home, adorned with student drawings and name tags and colourful charts. Football kitted arms up waving, pick me, energy and enthusiasm to learn, definite cheekiness. The current gang - Charlotte, Robyn, Jaydon, Jess and Shawn - give me the lowdown, I was excited to get started. Timetables, lesson plans, insights and ideas. It was a group who would share so much, I ... read more

Ok so it doesn't rhyme. It's pronounced "crotchy." And this one time Mom and I went to Sugarloaf in Maine and while we were there we decided to go look at some schools. The GPS took us a really weird back roads way. And one of the roads was called "Katie Crotch Road." Actually. So the name of this place was too perfect and I decided to go here based entirely on that. There was a rooster on our bus. But it only crowed at the beginning of the trip. Not a sound you expect to hear on a bus. At the Cambodian border, a lot of people got off the bus to do the visas on their own. We had handed ours in at the bus station, so I stayed on the bus until I ... read more

So our bus dropped us off on the riverside in the centre of this mellow town and we got ourselves sorted with some accommodation in silver dolphin which had a good party atmosphere and a rooftop bar with a lovely view over the river. It was really noisy for us though as our room was just off the rooftop bar, so stay somewhere else and just visit the bar! We ventured out and explored the town and the night market, I just love South East Asia for grocery shopping! Out are you supermarkets and delis and in are you wooden baskets on poles flush with fruit, honey coated crickets on the back of a moto, shops on wheels and locals haggling over fish and meat cut on wooden slabs in the markets! The next morning, we ... read more

Matinée de vélo au aurore pour en finir avec les 70 bornes qui nous attente et rejoindre la ville poste frontière, pas de piste à ce jour seulement de la grosse route le lendemain sera une journée tranquille ou ont apprécira ce balader dans la ville qui n'est pas touristique malgré le fait que ce soit la ville d'avant la frontière! Pas beaucoup plus à dire qu'il est temps de préparer le programme pour le Laos, triste de quitté les terre Cambodgienne mais déjà des frisons dans le do de trouver de nouveaux paysages...... read more

De retour sur les vélo pour la dernière journée en compagnie de la troupe avec en plus 3 nouvelles personnes (Sophie, Mélanie et l'Américaine) qui se mêle à nous pour la journée, dans un premier temps petit passage dans un temple avec avec tout plein de marche et des singe qui veulent sens prendre à mes banane séché mais pas de remake de l'Indonésie ce coup-ci! Par la suite il y aura une petite expédition dans les champs de riz pour y apprendre a le récolter, aider les paysans et voir comment tous ce passe, il y a pas à dire c'est pas un job facile: faucher, faire des mottes, enrouller poser et c'est repartie... Nous voila arrivé sur l'île majestueuse, a couper le souffle deux petite homestay très sympas, un lieux d'éco-tourisme que je recommande ... read more