I've left the orphanage now, it was sad to say goodbye but I think if I didn't leave when I did I would have ended up staying there forever! I wanted to leave them with something useful, so I brought them all their own toothbrush and a bar of soap, in return they gave me something personal - Head Lice!! They don't have nit lotion in the village; they use tweezers and pick them out. I couldn't do that so I got the bus to Phnom Penh with one of the other girls and ...

The past few weeks have been manic - I went to Si Phan Don in south Laos and chilled on a hammock over the mekong river for a few days, we saw river dolphins and accidentally stumbled across a cow giving birth which was pretty horrific. I spent a few days in Ratanakiri in the east of Cambodia, we cycled to some nice waterfalls, one you could stand under. That was fun but it hurt like hell and the guy next to me got hit on the head by a fish which was pretty funny...

I've just got back from a 3 day / 2 night home stay in a remote village. I think I have pretty much got over every fear I've ever had. Where to start....... So we get a local bus 4 hours away in the mountains. It drops us off in the middle of no where and no one speaks English. There's no shops or restaurants, it's literally trees, a few huts and loads of pigs, cows and chickens. The village was a 5k walk but half way the monsoon got us, we tried to hide u...

Yesterday was such a surreal day - Aurelie and I hired bicycle for 70p and explored the little villages around Vientiane. We ended up outside this really pretty temple and the monks asked us to come inside so we got talking them. They were all so friendly and one guy asked if I would help him with his English pronunciation - anyway one thing led to another and I ended up giving four monks an English lesson for the whole afternoon. They had little exercise books t...

I'm in Vang Vieng at the moment in Laos. This is such a beautiful county, one of the things that really stands out is how innocent the kids are. There are hundreds of them playing where ever you go. It's so nice to see that compared to Thailand where their parents get them to beg and they all look so miserable. I went tubing yesterday and no joke I nearly died. For those of you who don't know what tubing is; basically you hire a big rubber ring and a tuttu...