My Friday started off like any other morning in Cambodia. Wake up at 7, have breakfast, hop on a moped, teach some English. I finish at 10h30 on Fridays, which is quite nice, but on this Friday I returned home and started packing. Don’t worry, my time in Cambodia hasn’t come to and end. I was off to Phnom Penh for the weekend. We took a ‘took took’ (excuse the spelling), which is a 4 seater carriage pulled behind a man on a motorbike, to the bus station in Battambang and got on board our bus.

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, Battambang , Cambodia

Another week of work went by really well, I’m slowly getting the hang of this whole “teaching” business. Language barrier is still a bit on a struggle, but I’ve already noticed an improvement in some of the children’s English. Every Friday I finish work at 10h30, so the rest of the day is for me to do what ever I please and start the weekend with plenty of energy. This weekend I decided I would go to Siem Reap – I flew into there from Bangkok, but never actually went into the city.S

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, Battambang , Cambodia

I’d like to start this blog posting with a bit of an apology. I haven’t done a posting in a few weeks, and word on the inter-web is that my fans having been requesting a new one. So the fans have spoken, and here it is. It’s been a pretty crazy few weeks, really exciting and really tiring. As it stands there are 19 volunteers in the house at the moment. 14 of the 19 are a university group called DUCK, which stands for Durham University Charities Kommittee (the bad spelling of “Committee” is because it doesn’t make a cool acronym without the “K”).

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, Battambang , Cambodia

Food was always going to be an interesting part of my trip to Cambodia, and today proved that. Before I left, I watched a youtube video of when Gordon Ramsey visited this amazing country. (Link below) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC_3MY1CgtI One of the foods he eats is a duck egg which has been left to develop for 20 days and then boiled before eating. I thought it was a good challenge to accept. Today I lived up to this challenge.&

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, Battambang , Cambodia