Set off at 8am for the 'Working For Children' Orphanage which is a Cambodian NGO established to help orphans and a small number of the poorest children in Puok District, which is about 1 hour from Siem Reap by car. Laura and Ang have moved to the orphanage with me and when we arrived we were greeted by the Founder - Pol Pean - and his colleague, who is the most delightful lady and held on tightly to both Laura's hand and mine. She doesn't speak any English but...

Day 2 of the wedding, and unfortunately, having not expected a 2-day event, my only clean clothes were black trousers and a black t-shirt! Not exactly the best thing to wear for a wedding, but nobody seemed to mind, and Sak's mother kept telling me that I looked lovely (well, that's what I was told!) - bless her! Sak and I had met a family yesterday afternoon who, on finding out that I am in Cambodia teaching English, asked me to have dinner with them so that I ...

The bus picked me up from my guesthouse at 7am this morning and after literally cramming in another 19 Westerners, including huge rucksacks, we set off for Sisophon. I was the only person getting off in Sisophon as all the others were heading to Poipet to catch another bus to Bangkok. We finally pulled into a restaurant just outside of Sisophon 4 hours later (felt more like 8!) where the driver announced that we would stay there for 30 minutes. Sak was waiting fo...

Today was my last day at Prey Chrouk School as I will be volunteering at an orphanage from Monday for four days. Spent the day doing some teaching and finishing off painting the classroom. We also had lunch at the Prey Chrouk Pagoda with Vanak and the nuns, who all look as though they are 100 with no teeth! They were great fun and we shared our food with them . . . including Laura's Mars Bar which they found very confusing! I was sad to leave the children at Pre...

Spent today painting (we take it in turns to teach) and playing even more football and this afternoon Laura and I went shopping in the Central Market in Siem Reap to buy a few more toys for the school. There has recently been a problem at the school with items going missing, but the Vice-Principal knows that it's not the children stealing. So we decided that it was unfair that the children should suffer as a result, so we bought a few balls, skipping ropes, etc. ...