The last day at COFCO! I was really sad to be leaving the kids as we were progressing so well with the English lessons. I should have stayed here for at least 1 month... Yesterday I took portrait photos of each of the students in our class, had them developed at a shop last night and took them into class today. They loved the photos! And it is something personal that they can keep for themselves. Wendy gave them each a pen with "Angry Birds" on them. Angry Birds...

Today we decided to do a Khmer Cooking class run by a company called Beyond Unique Escapes. There are at least a half dozen cooking classes in the town (if not more), but we decided to choose this one because of its unique location in the Sojourn Hotel in a village just outside Siem Reap. We are so glad we went there. The class was fantastic, the location unique and we were also able to lounge around beside the pool before being treated to some amazing spa treatm...

Hot hot hotter! With the temperature inching its way towards a scorching 40 degrees, we started our first day teaching at COFCO (Cambodian Orphanage Family Centre Organisation). As today was International Woman's Day, some of the children who attend classes at the centre from the community, were with their families so we had a relatively small group of learners. Our role as volunteers is to teach English. Cambodian children attend public school in 2 "shifts" - ...

6,5 hrs on a Cambodian bus from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap and we're exhausted! The views of the countryside, though, were breathtaking! Houses on stilts, skinny white cows, water buffaloes wallowing in the mud, carpets of rice drying in the sun and children cycling to and from school. We had a bit of a diva strop when we arrived at our Guesthouse to find that we'd been allocated a room with a lazy fan and cold water! We've now been upgraded to air conditioned and...