It’s been a bit of a roller coaster month starting terribly and ending very well. We had a week and a bit of exhaustion and illness. We were both vomiting and diarrhea which was horrible horrible horrible when we didn’t have any running water apart from in the middle of the night. I then got depressed and homesick and things and decided I hate khmer food. So that was a definite low of the year. But theeeeen …MUM AND DAD ARRIVED!
We spent 2 weeks split between Siem Reip, Phnom Penh and at the seaside in Kep. It was bliss, I felt like a princess in all the posh hotels, and I did my best to make the most of Mum and Dad’s visit by only stopping talking to sleep. We ate delicious seafood drank lots of cocktails visited Angkor Wat, swam, chatted, visited the orphanage did a bit of shopping and they payed for it all :) Mum took me to the supermarket and we bought all the basic ingredients for cooking so now I can cook which will be great as my deep dislike for Khmer food especially orphanage food doesn’t seem to have worn off.
We have started PSHE sessions and English classes with the old teenagers. I was really scared about them both. I have enjoyed them though especially the English classes as they speak reasonable English so we are not just learning vocabulary and we can have a laugh. At school the children are encouraged against questioning so we have been trying to incorporate an aspect of debate to the classes, for example Bethany has created a set of laws for a fantasy country and I have been discussing strikes.
Rachana is back to school! She has been for two weeks now, I’m pretty sure I was more excited about her first day than she was.
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