So today is my last full day in Cambodia and it breaks my heart! It was so lovely coming back here after Vietnam but I don't want to leave again now. I have spent my week doing absolutely nothing but relaxing and it's been great. However I'm the type of person who leaves everything to the last minute and as we speak I'm printing off visas and boarding passes, and I still need to pack!! My last night tonight is definitely going to be one to remember!! My favourit...

My bus back to Siem Reap on Friday seemed to take ages, although that was probably because I was so excited to get back! When I got to the border at Poipet I felt like a pro because this was the same border crossing we had been through going to and from Koh Chang so I knew exactly where to go and what to do. I found three other travellers to share a taxi with to Siem Reap so I arrived at my guesthouse at the reasonable time of 3.40pm. I decided to spend my first ...

Yesterday was my last day of school, and as it was Chinese New Year I brought coloured paper and glitter glue into school so we could make Chinese lanterns. There was no scheduled classes for the day and when I arrived the children had already been drawing pictures, but they loved the idea of the glitter glue and by the end of the day we all had glitter everywhere! Some of them grasped the idea of the lanterns, but mostly they were happy to make cards and draw pi...

On Sunday Anne and I went to a wedding out in Banteay Srey so a couple of weeks ago we bought material from the market and took it to a dressmakers along with a dress design. We were supposed to be able to pick them up on Thursday but they weren't ready, nor were they ready on Friday. On Saturday afternoon we turned up at the dressmakers and although my dress was complete, Anne's was still in little pieces waiting to be sewn together. When I tried my dress on it ...

This week we have had 11 new volunteers from Britain, Germany, Norway and the Netherlands. Only half of them have been able to fit in the volunteer house whilst the remainder are at a guest house which isn't great as it always means they don't get to integrate so well. I am one of the longest volunteers now which is weird so I have been trying to impart my wisdom to the "newbies". Although they've been here for less that a week I feel like we've done a ...