Wow, you came back!! My previous post was, lets face it, pretty damn awful: somewhat lacklustre and uninspired :( (apologies*). I hope this one's much better, and that I can do travels in Bangkok a bit more justice :) So I'm currently sat in Bandar Seri Begawan (the airport), en route back to London. I'm here for 10 hours... I'm not joking either when I tell you it's the world's smallest international airport, very few facilities: one basic coffee shop, numerous...

This is the first time I've been able to get to a computer in the last ten days-ish! It's been a rather busy week to say the least, so sorry for the delayed update.The ailments that accompanied my sickness on Sunday were not great; being bed bound in a hot foreign country is not my idea of fun. Having wasted the day feeling sorry for myself, I ventured out to Ra's (our resident tùk tùk driver) "homeland" to celebrate Khmer New Year with his family and friends ...

Following a very harrowing weekend in Phnom Penh, this week has been a busy one. We've been doing something every day so we're not sat in our room twiddling our thumbs surrounded by Cambodia's absolutely immense culture. After our extremely tedious/monotonous yet exhausting journey back from PP, we had an evening's dinner and traditional dancing show to attend at the "Koulen Restaurant". I think it was the all you can eat buffet that enticed me more than the...

Insightful. Enlightening. Developmental. Discovery. Ignorant. Harrowing. Chilling. Disturbing. Disgusting. Difficult. Itense. Sickening. A jumble of words that together, to you, probably don't make much sense. Those are the words that, I think, summarise the experience I've had this weekend in Phnom Penh. I'm going to try and give you an understanding of the places I saw and the way they impacted me, but I don't know yet how well I can (apologies if this one get...

Soos-saday! Phonetically this is hello in Khmer (the Cambodian language). I'm going to give you a nice, hopefully brief, update of my travels and experiences in the last few days. The first week of teaching was, indeed, challenging to say the least. As I mentioned in my last post, I was becoming more frustrated with my class as the week went on … the polar opposite of what I thought would happen (cries*). I thought you were supposed to make progress?! I su...