A good night’s sleep in a hotel to avoid the Khmer wedding (which went on for three days) and your whole perspective on life can improve. That and sitting at the top of a mountain today watching pond skaters, fish and dragonflies arsing about in the sun.
It doesn’t take much to make me [...]
There’s a wedding going on about three houses down. It’s half eleven at night, most Khmers go to bed around nine, but this could go on all night. The music is so loud that I can feel the vibrations coming up through the house and up my chair. Earplugs will do nothing as the vibrations [...]
Having a cold in Cambodia seems a bit like having heat rash in England in November – just doesn’t make sense. That said, I do, and I’ve love some Lemsip around now, but I’m not sure if they do it in the shops. A lot of Cambodians get cupped if they get [...]
It all sounds innocent enough. Operation Christmas Child “is a unique ministry that brings Christmas joy, packed in gift-filled shoeboxes, to children around the world”. Over the past 10 years, 24 million shoeboxes have been delivered, making it the world’s largest children’s Christmas project. Every US president since Ronald Reagan has packed a shoebox for [...]
After my first English class this afternoon, one of my young adult group handed me a glossy but cheaply produced booklet, the Book of Hope. They had been given it at high school this morning. This book contained pages of advice with titles such as Love, Sex, Health, Career, and Addiction. These are themes that may [...]
I have now conducted several listening exercised with my group of young adults, all aimed at enhancing their listening skills and understanding of English. This has been accomplished through the use of some of the finest music known to man. So far, we have listened to
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