Hello! I went to the beach for the weekend - Sihanoukville I think it's called. We can't pronounce anything so have resorted to calling everything "Shnuckville". Before I left England I said "on no, I'm not going to go to beaches and things, I'm going to do proper travelling, none of this beach holiday malarky". After two weeks in Phnom Penh, which is the dirtiest, hottest place I've been to so far, I was more than ready for the beach. Even so...

It's kind of strange having a "job" again for a few weeks. It's good though as I always need to to have something to do. Today was my first official day as a teacher. It went quite well. Loads of randoms turned up to Tania and I's university class, so we had 16 students in our class, there were only four last week! Obviously they heard about the hot new teachers on the block. :) I'm getting to know the individual students a bit better now. I know all m...

I'm almost at the end of my first week at my school. It's going so fast, I can't believe I only have two weeks left here! It's definitely "holiday volunteering" as I call it as there are six volunteers here at the moment (to 27 kids) and we don't do that much teaching, plus at lunchtime they try and send us to this big mall thing for lunch (why would we want to spend $4 on pizza when we can get three portions of chicken and rice down the road for $1?). ...

So I am in Phnom Penh (I still haven't worked out the right way to say it yet - I think it's P-nom Pen but any variation seems to work). I don't think I did anything eventful on the remainder of my last day in Saigon other than finally finish Anna Karenina. I did the Mekong Delta cruise to get here. I was a bit grumbly at the start as I'd been spoilt by my Easy Rider trip and was suddenly in the company of 30 other tourists and being herded round obviously fake &...