Kompang Cham

Hi all,

We are now based in a lovely provincial town three hour north of Phnom Penh called Kompang Cham where we are having some Khmer language lessons at an international school.
We will be here for another week and then we head upto our placement town (still a further 5 hours north) for a weeks visit, house hunting and meeting new employer...
The traffic in Cambodia is not for the faint hearted... it seems to be every vehicle for themselves and you quite often come face to face with a car heading towards you on the wrong side of the road.... all you do is toot your horn to let them know you are there!!!!
Have passed through a place known as "spiderville" where they deep fry tarantulas!!!!! we didn't sample them - yet!!!
We have been on a boat trip today to a Wat some 20km up river and we managed to have an audience with a monk!!! he offered us lunch but we had to decline as the boat was leaving..
Our first breakfast here was certainly one we will never forget... chicken, rice, tea and soup!!! This was no ordinary soup as Rachel had a chickens foot in it and Anthony had what looked like some organs!!! needless to say we went hungry that morning.
We are getting around town on bicylces which is much better than walking as the temperature is well in to early 40's!!!!!!

keep coming back for our next update which should include some photo's........

Greetings from Cambodia

Hello to you all...

We arrived here in Cambodia a few days ago and we haven't stopped since. Their are 27 of us on our in country training (the largest group ever) and we have people from all over the world (Sweden, Holland, Philipines, USA & Canada plus others)..

We are heading off to our first stage of in country language training tomorrow for 10 days and then we have a week visiting our placement in Stung Treng..

The weather is hot!!!! 43 degrees yesterday so it was nice today that is was only 41 degrees!!!!!

We will put another post on here soon with some photo's when we have a better internet connection!!!

Speak soon and love you all lots

Anthony & Rachel

P.S. the next blog may have some Khmer in it!!!!!