Hello! Many changes this week!
First off we are no longer alone in the Red House!! Erin Flynn, a nurse from oz, is now living here part time as well as two volunteers from Holland and Belgium who are only going to be staying for three weeks (Valerie and PJ). The Red House itself is also moving up in the world as we now have a generator which gives us electricity (sometimes) in the evening! And most importantly of all, we now have a HUGE cold box!
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Over the next few weeks we are also going to have a group of middle-aged Canadians (DWC volunteers) building houses around the village for the Family Dream project and a new outhouse kitchen at the Red House (left). So its been rather crowded in Chamcar Bie this week! Sadly a chance appearance by the cow boys ruined our papaya plot, which Theary was NOT happy about! But that project will be rekindled next week. Basketball in Kep is well on the way now as we have two hoops, nets, balls and a group of kids interested in playing. All we are waiting for now is the concrete and the welding!
Val and PJ are currently helping to re-paint buildings in the UNESCO site which is apparently a hot and monotonous job but they may be doing agriculture work during the weeks to come! Erin endeared herself to me and Joss very fast as she plays basketball and is addicted to Milo. I'm also no longer the only one hitting my head on beams in the Red House as all residents with the exception of Joss are over six foot now. Hopefully we will all learn to duck before the house loses structural integrity. It's quite strange having people living with us now but thankfully all the volunteers we have living in the Red House permanently seem really nice and easy to get on with so I'm looking forward to being a little more social :)
Teaching this week was a bit disrupted as we were late getting in from Kep on Monday (tuk tuk problems again!) so we only had a half class in the morning and we a.jpg)
lso had to skip Thursday all together since we needed to get the bus down to PP to meet Joss's family. Several classes were also interupted by DWC volunteers wondering in and chatting to us, the students and the teachers. However, some of the lessons this week have been memorable since we have bags of shiny new teaching supplies donated by mday-oapuk roboh khnohm (my pareenttts). One such lesson was when my little kids learnt bodyparts by sticking post-it notes on Seriem, one of the Cambodian teachers, and then on each other. Thankfully it was the last activity of the class as after the floor was opened for post-it sticking it got rather chaotic. We have finally set up a full youth team project with the help of Pirom and Vanna. We will be making and distributing leaflets and posters on preserving the environment in Chamcar Bie (in English and Khmer) and hopefully going on "campaign" walks around the village as we did when promoting CLC in September.
On Thursday we travelled via bus to PP. The journey was complicated slightly by the bus initially stopping at the side of the road and asking us to wait for 30 minutes in the same spot. An hour later we called the bus company and were told to wait another 30 minutes. An hour after that the bus finally showed up and we rolled out of Kep several hours late. The consequence of this was that we were stuck in commuter traffic going into PP and didn't make it to the volunteer house until around 8 (to the great suprise of the volunteers there who didn't know we were coming). The journey up was uneventful except for the satisfaction we felt when we stopped off at the same midway point that we stopped off at when we travelled from PP to Kep for the first time and bought a coke for 1000 riel. Doesn't sound very interesting I know, but on the first trip we made down to Kep Joss and I bought two cokes at the same store for a dollar each which Vy then laughed at us for. We are no longer AS touristy!
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We spent a fun Thursday night with the Ames clan at the FCC in PP eating, drinking and catching up. Friday was spent exploring PP's resturants and the royal palace and in the evening Joss and I went with the 7 PP volunteers to a rather entertaining korean karaoke bar for Antu's (a law intern who works with BAB) birthday. Fred, another new roomie at the Re.jpg)
d house, got in from the UK on Friday but was understandably quite bushed so we will probably meet him properly on Monday. Bright and early on Saturday morning we caught the bus down to Kep where we were greated with absolutely abismal weather! We still had a nice time eating dinner at the crab market and going to the Riel bar. Unfortunately the weather on Sunday was just as bad so we decided not to go to Rabbit Island as planned (giving me time to write this blog). Instead we are going to head over to Chamcar Bie where George and Harry (Joss's younger brothers) are going to stay a few nights with us.
First off we are no longer alone in the Red House!! Erin Flynn, a nurse from oz, is now living here part time as well as two volunteers from Holland and Belgium who are only going to be staying for three weeks (Valerie and PJ). The Red House itself is also moving up in the world as we now have a generator which gives us electricity (sometimes) in the evening! And most importantly of all, we now have a HUGE cold box!
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Over the next few weeks we are also going to have a group of middle-aged Canadians (DWC volunteers) building houses around the village for the Family Dream project and a new outhouse kitchen at the Red House (left). So its been rather crowded in Chamcar Bie this week! Sadly a chance appearance by the cow boys ruined our papaya plot, which Theary was NOT happy about! But that project will be rekindled next week. Basketball in Kep is well on the way now as we have two hoops, nets, balls and a group of kids interested in playing. All we are waiting for now is the concrete and the welding!Val and PJ are currently helping to re-paint buildings in the UNESCO site which is apparently a hot and monotonous job but they may be doing agriculture work during the weeks to come! Erin endeared herself to me and Joss very fast as she plays basketball and is addicted to Milo. I'm also no longer the only one hitting my head on beams in the Red House as all residents with the exception of Joss are over six foot now. Hopefully we will all learn to duck before the house loses structural integrity. It's quite strange having people living with us now but thankfully all the volunteers we have living in the Red House permanently seem really nice and easy to get on with so I'm looking forward to being a little more social :)
Teaching this week was a bit disrupted as we were late getting in from Kep on Monday (tuk tuk problems again!) so we only had a half class in the morning and we a
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lso had to skip Thursday all together since we needed to get the bus down to PP to meet Joss's family. Several classes were also interupted by DWC volunteers wondering in and chatting to us, the students and the teachers. However, some of the lessons this week have been memorable since we have bags of shiny new teaching supplies donated by mday-oapuk roboh khnohm (my pareenttts). One such lesson was when my little kids learnt bodyparts by sticking post-it notes on Seriem, one of the Cambodian teachers, and then on each other. Thankfully it was the last activity of the class as after the floor was opened for post-it sticking it got rather chaotic. We have finally set up a full youth team project with the help of Pirom and Vanna. We will be making and distributing leaflets and posters on preserving the environment in Chamcar Bie (in English and Khmer) and hopefully going on "campaign" walks around the village as we did when promoting CLC in September.On Thursday we travelled via bus to PP. The journey was complicated slightly by the bus initially stopping at the side of the road and asking us to wait for 30 minutes in the same spot. An hour later we called the bus company and were told to wait another 30 minutes. An hour after that the bus finally showed up and we rolled out of Kep several hours late. The consequence of this was that we were stuck in commuter traffic going into PP and didn't make it to the volunteer house until around 8 (to the great suprise of the volunteers there who didn't know we were coming). The journey up was uneventful except for the satisfaction we felt when we stopped off at the same midway point that we stopped off at when we travelled from PP to Kep for the first time and bought a coke for 1000 riel. Doesn't sound very interesting I know, but on the first trip we made down to Kep Joss and I bought two cokes at the same store for a dollar each which Vy then laughed at us for. We are no longer AS touristy!
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We spent a fun Thursday night with the Ames clan at the FCC in PP eating, drinking and catching up. Friday was spent exploring PP's resturants and the royal palace and in the evening Joss and I went with the 7 PP volunteers to a rather entertaining korean karaoke bar for Antu's (a law intern who works with BAB) birthday. Fred, another new roomie at the Re.jpg)
d house, got in from the UK on Friday but was understandably quite bushed so we will probably meet him properly on Monday. Bright and early on Saturday morning we caught the bus down to Kep where we were greated with absolutely abismal weather! We still had a nice time eating dinner at the crab market and going to the Riel bar. Unfortunately the weather on Sunday was just as bad so we decided not to go to Rabbit Island as planned (giving me time to write this blog). Instead we are going to head over to Chamcar Bie where George and Harry (Joss's younger brothers) are going to stay a few nights with us.
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