Landed back in Siem Reap 2 days ago and now beginning to find my feet again.  Only when I have managed to get a new sim card for my phone will I be able to post photos.  Today I will go to Grace House and prepare myself for work tomorrow.  It would be helpful to know who has checked this out. Thanks for reading!

Monday 16th November

If you are reading this please message me.  It is much more difficult to put up photos this year so unless I hear that you are not getting my posts on FBook I will  no longer keep this blog updated.
Thank you  for taking an interest

Sunday 15th November


My phone tells me I visited Thailand on Monday when visiting Preah Vihear Temple on the border (just learnt how to take a screenshot!)

It was very beautiful and a lovely trip with good company but  I was not feeling up to posting photos. Back on form now so will try to do so this week.
Having a very quiet, relaxing weekend,

Friday 13th November

A wet drive in this morning 

Hurray, it's Friday afternoon and as much as I love teaching the children it is great to have reached the end of the week!. The monsoon rains finished at the end of October last year but we had torrential rain again this morning which means it has rained every day since I arrived on the 3rd. It doesn't last for long though and the sun was soon out again

Grace House this morning

Just heard that we have 3 days off on Tuesday 24th to Thursday 26th.  Sadly this holiday does not include a Monday or Friday so maybe I will have to shelve plans to visit Laos

Friday 13th November

Illness and problems with my camera have prevented me from updating this blog with regular photographs.

All is well now and I am very happy here.  Apart from one or two all the children in my class are the same as last year so it has not taken long to get back to a routine, and any photos I might have posted will be much the same as those added this time last year, further down the blog!

I will keeep posting on FBook

Wednesday 11th November.

Being struck down with two viruses in my first week back has been tough, but life is good and I am very happy in spite of feeling rotten.

 It was Independence Day on Monday and the schools were closed so  I visited a beautiful temple on the Thai border on Monday with some good friends from Australia, S. Africa and the UK.  We had a great time and photos will follow if I can get them transferred from my camera.

The Cambodians are very fond of suction cups as a remedy for many ills but I refused the offer and decided to go for the coconut juice cure which has really helped today.

My lunchtime drink

The children are a delight to teach and I am looking forward to being back on better form to teach them tomorrow.



The journey home from school today.  Mine, and the children's

Is that a baby at the front?

My tuk tuk driver

Very dramatic monsoon rains yesterday for my first full day back at work.   It was wonderful to be back with the children at Grace House.   All is going well.  My accommodation is good and hopefully a reasonable price has been negotiated with a tuk tuk driver for my daily commute to school .