Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Back to school

Back to school to teach another (slightly repetitive) lesson on the alphabet to Class C...tried to add interest with games such as Hangman. The kids love team games where they have to race to fill in the blanks in words or solve anagrams faster than their opponents. In the afternoons I teach...

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lucy3119 on August 9, 2011 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia

from the travel blog: Cambodia 2011

First day at project

Up at 6:45am so that we could make the hour-long tuk tuk ride to our project, arriving at 9am. The journey was a crazy combination of the typically mad SE Asian traffic followed by bumpy and ridiculously dusty dirt roads as we headed into the rural villages just outside Phnom Penh. Alannah,...

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lucy3119 on August 8, 2011 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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Getting (dis)oriented

Chocolate pancakes for breakfast at the hostel! We started the day with a tuk tuk tour of the city before heading for our volunteer project orientation...the thing was, nobody had told us we were headed for the project, so when our tuk tuk veered off into a network of narrow lanes with the...

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lucy3119 on August 7, 2011 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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Meetings

Set off for Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Friday 5th on the same flight that I'd been on two years before heading off on my big Thai adventure. Travelling alone for the first time meant a very boring (and slightly lonely!) few hours at Heathrow airport, but on the plane I found myself sat next to a...

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lucy3119 on August 6, 2011 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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Ho Chi Minh City and the end of my VSO placement in Stung Treng

As my last weeks as a VSO volunteer passed by, I lived and enjoyed life intensively in Stung Treng and elsewhere. Oli was very keen to visit the South of Vietnam and especially the capital - Ho Chi Minh City or as they call it unofficially: Saigon. We decided to travel by boat this time...

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katja-horsch on July 3, 2011 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia

from the travel blog: Ho Chi Minh City and the end of my VSO placement in Stung Treng

Weddings in Stung Treng 2011 and some good news!

On the 29th was the Royal Wedding in the UK and although I don't have a telly, I heard all about it from the other volunteers because it was in the media non stop for weeks. The Phnom Penh VSO volunteers sent an e-mail around to invite to a Royal Wedding party and it said they even invited...

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katja-horsch on May 7, 2011 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia

from the travel blog: Weddings in Stung Treng 2011

Mekong River Swim and vegetarian delights

(This text is written by Oliver Shipp) The chocolaty Mekong oozes its way through Cambodia towards Phnom Penh, supporting riverside communities and picturesque boats. It is impressive, photogenic, even beautiful. But would you really want to bathe in it? Daring VSO volunteers Katja,...

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katja-horsch on April 28, 2011 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia

from the travel blog: Mekong River Swim and vegetarian delights

Sihanoukville

In comparison to Vietnam which is just beginning to grow economically, Cambodia would still be classified as an underdeveloped country. We were told that the average monthly wage is about $40. People basically live off the land and the sea to survive. We went to the beach in a tuk tuk...

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rcodel on April 8, 2011 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia

from the travel blog: World Cruise - 2011

visitors from Germany

The other very exiting thing that happend before Doerti and Ines arrived was: meeting the parents! Oli's parents came to visit him for about 3 weeks and they travelled around a lot. They even helped Oli and Alison cleaning the hospital beds in Thmar Pouk hospital for an Infection Control...

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katja-horsch on March 14, 2011 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia

from the travel blog: visitors from Germany

a new year

It feels a long time now, beeing here in Cambodia. Not that I don't like it anymore, but I must admit, I feel ready for new adventures. And this year will be the year of big decisions and unpatiently as I am, I want everything to happen immediately! My midwifery applications have been sent...

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katja-horsch on January 25, 2011 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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