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It's been a while I know.. Which makes it slightly harder to remember everything that's happened in the last 4 + months.. For the most part I've been living and working in Phnom Penh. I'm sharing a big house with 4 other people and working in a private school called American Pacific. The school only goes up to grade 6 so from 2 to about 16 but the grades are separated by ability rather then age so in Grade 6 I have a few 10 year old's as well as the older children. We had the Water Festival which was amazing but ended in disaster.. I spent Christmas in Kampot with lots of friends and the New years in Sihanoukvil on the beach! both were amazing! Polly's been here for the last month which has been ... read more

iSo far, so good... Well, I've been back and working at the school for over a month and everything’s falling back into place and I’m really getting back into the rhythm of things... and I now get to ride the moto to school and back two times a day which is always fun! the main road with all the house's on we call hello road as every single child run out of their house shouting hello at me as i ride past. A description of my day?? 5.30am usually get woken up at by the chickens or at 6am by the wedding / funeral it’s very hard to tell the difference as they both hire the biggest speakers you can get then chant, pray and play local music and drum and bass at full volume for ... read more

So after the festivities of Christmas and new year.. we have finished our traveling and have started to work! it wasn't the easiest place to find but last week we arrived in the pitch black at the school well be working at! in the dark there wast much to see so we had an early night.. i awoke to the pre dawn chorus of the many roosters, hens, cows, dogs and people that make the Cambodian morning.. it starts around 5ish. the mornings here are beautiful its much cooler and we could see the school, mostly a wooden structure and the large gardens that surround it.. it does tend to look more like a farm quite alot of the time.. there about 60 chickens at the moment, there aiming for 200 there both eaten and sold ... read more

After a week of work and not much sleep we opted for a quieter place.. koh kong the "city" is the place to go to to get to an untouched island and the biggest protected jungle in Cambodia... it is also the dead dog capital of the world... well they weren't dead but they all looked pretty close to it.. and so was the place itself.. this is the sort of thing that happens in most border towns Ive been to.. whatever they border they tend to be ugly smelly and have the most malnourished flea ridden dogs you could hope to see.. but we found our man Mr Neat at the blue moon guest house and deciding to spend as little time as possible in the town we booked the island trip for 8am the ... read more

so got out of the big city well if you can call it that.. nice 6 hours bus journey to kampot again weve gone back to visit an old friend at a place called Bodhi Villas.. definatly the coolest guest house in Cambodia! been having a lot of fun renting scooters ridding out into the lush country side. we went for a swim in a lake.. hired the rustiest pedalo we could find put the three biggest "barrangs" (us) in it and set off with a cooler full of coke on a mission to the middle.. unfortunately there wasn't much room on the boat and the wasn't any pedals just bare metal which meant we had to change pedaller often, now the first problem came when pat moved to the front of the boat. one minuet ... read more