Big trip in little Village no Trouble in the City

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Soo I’ve come to the end of my time in the village..

To live in the countryside with the teachers and the students was a beautiful experience.. and it’s them that I will remember for a long time. The baking heat and torrential rain added to the difficulties but it made even more rewarding. I want to thank the organization for allowing me this opportunity from which I gained the confidence to feel I could teach and it was the interest and gratefulness of the young people I taught that gave it to me.

On my last day I took the students on a trip to Phnom Da a temple on a hill surrounded by flooded rice pains built in the 6th century. It was only a couple of hours away but from the excitement of the class you would have thought we were going to an amusement park..

It was such a great day and it was really fun to spend time with them outside of the class room..
My whole last week was pretty exciting you would be surprised how many uhh gatherings happen in a small village.. One of our teacher’s opened a garage and so had a big party.. I got pulled out of bed in the morning and the first thing I had to drink was a can of Guinness followed by a tasty bowl of what I thought was pork but what turned out to be dog.. it was actually pretty good, not too sure about the intestines tho..

It was a sad day leaving but I will be back..


And then.. well I moved to Phnom Penh, the big city.. I only had one job prospect at the time and which turned out to only be a couple of hours a week.. not really what I needed but on leaving the interview I got a call from another school who I had contacted over a month ago and never heard from.. they asked me to go straight in for an interview and went onto offer me a job straight away! the best part was that it was full time work mon-fri with decent pay. It’s at a private school so the students are quite different, I was a little nervous on my first day but soon got into the swing of things and taking charge in the class room. Again it’s conversational English focusing on speaking and listening, mainly working from a book which makes it easier.

one day in and I had secured a job id also moved in to a very nice house, big, clean, tiled, living room, kitchen OVEN fridge-freezer 4 bathrooms and a huge roof terrace!! Definitely a step up from the village!

now I have finished my first week and have rented a motor bike to help me get around the city only problem I don't know any of the roads yet and they have a very strange set of rules here.. you can basically do anything on the road as long as you do it slowly so its very much a case of watching what everyone else is doing all of the time. Rather worryingly my bikes a Suzuki Smash.. let’s hope it doesn’t live up to its name.

Were completely in the wet season now.. it rains in the afternoon pretty much every day, today it’s been raining for about 3 hours and really heavy. A lot of the roads hear flood and quite often you have to get off a moto and take your shoes off to wade through Knee high dirty water!

That’s about it for now...

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Photos

me and the students at Phnom Da
school trip

Comments

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This is beautiful