What a weekend it has been and sadly it’s our last here. We got invited to watch a local game of football (Angkor Tigers) with Tammy and her son. We arrived by tuk tuk and it was around 20/25 minutes out of town. When we arrived I recognised the stadium. It is where I had been previously for a school Athletic event. As we approached the stadium, there were little stalls selling beer for 50p and local fruit. It was a free for all seat wise with 8 lines of main t...

Our first full week in Siem Reap is complete and I'm already wishing we had booked longer in this magical place. The music wall is nearly up running and ready to be used by the children. After having painted the wall with two coats of paint, we fixed the instruments/ pots and pans to the wall. The school knew a handy man to drill the holes, which was a blessing! We now need to finish decorating the wall with music notes and writing and then it will be ready for...

Yesterday we arrived into school by bike. It’s 5k to the school from our guesthouse, so in one day we will cycle 20k... great bit of exercise especially when the thought of getting up to do a 20 minute hiit session at 5.30am in 38 degrees heat just isn’t that appealing. We fixed up one of the school’s bikes and one of Tammy’s, at a local street stall. We dropped them off on Tuesday at lunch time and then went back after school to collect them, but forgett...

The day had finally arrived. The day I had been waiting for. The day to go into the school. After a restless sleep, probably due to excitement, we were up with the sunrise and out in a tuk tuk by 7.30. When we approached the dirt track road to school, all the memories came rushing back. All those journeys made to school on bike for six months on my own and all those journeys made to school with my family who visited in the latter years. Now new memories will be ...

With all the excitement, slight burn (yes even with sun cream), alcohol consumed with Tammy and probably dehydration, my second night in Siem Reap was spent with my head in the toilet. Possibly forgetting how humid it gets, forgetting that I had only just arrived and wanting to be in the moment and fit a lot in, lead to a dreadful night. The morning after was not much better, in fact it got much worse. After having had an amazing breakfast with an old teacher fro...