Keeping a blog is harder than I thought. Now that my days are filled with teaching, by the time I get home I don't have the mental capacity to accurately describe all that I've experienced in just three weeks while in this beautiful country. For starters the most unique thing I've experienced in Siem Reap was visiting the floating village, Kompong Pluk. Being amongst villagers whose lives are tailored around the high tide season was like travelling through time back to when people used whatever is at their disposal to survive and live a decent life. I really can't even find the words to describe how unique and amazing the experience was. These people who have built their homes on stilts to survive the wet season, scrap by with the basics but still have the heart to invite you into their home. They were so inviting as we walked around their wooden and bamboo made home taking pictures and looking around. And then of course nothing has yet compared to going swimming in the flooded forest and trying to pick snails off tree trunks with our feet. However all that is not to diminish the fun I've had walking around the night market on my own, going out dancing with the Globalteer gang at Angkor What?, volunteering for the Think Twice campaign (https://www.facebook.com/ThinkTwiceCampaign#!/thinktwicecambodia) to chilling at a tropical a swimming pool/bar called Aqua and of course just spending time with the children of Anjali. However things I have discovered I don't exactly enjoy: the random sound of bells and drums clanging really loud every morning, I'm assuming this is coming from some temple nearby; I also don't enjoy riding my bike along shattered roads while having to dodge dogs and other motorists, I don't mind dodging traffic along a smooth road; And then there's the annoyance of swatting away flies that swirl around our table as we try to eat our simple lunch of rice and whatever concoction of a Khmer dish the cooks have prepared that day. But said all this, I still love it here:)
Our lovely hosts
The gang
Eating the snails we picked!
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