Hey guys its Rach and Jess here once again. Today started off with the standard bus ride to Angkor Thom High School, the same school we taught at yesterday. After arriving, we dived into some fun little games to start off our day. Sack races were a big hit all round, and the unexpected stack every now and then made it more humorous. We then were taught a Khmer game which involved two people blindfolded and chasing each other, this game was very popular. Eventually the heat got to all of us and we headed inside to start the day’s teaching.
Today we were teaching body parts. In many of the classrooms, we were very surprised with the amount of words and knowledge that they already knew, and we then soon had to come up with more challenging activities for many of them. It was extremely rewarding seeing the students learn more and build on what English they already knew, and being able to witness the impact that we are creating towards their lives is truly wonderful. After our teaching we headed off to another buffet lunch, where once again too much food was consumed by many members of the team.
After a lovely meal it was time to head off to the cultural village, which was a first time experience for many, and I know we can all agree that it was an extremely delightful and thrilling one. We started off with looking at some of Cambodia’s culture and many of us were extremely lucky to have some of the Cambodian students give us our own personal tour, enabling us to get a greater insight towards Cambodian culture. After we were given a few hours to explore and many of us found ourselves trying out what was called ‘the judgement tunnel’, which was a dark cave filled with many scary decorations and you had to find your way out of it. I (Jess) was extremely confused as to what was going on within the first 20 seconds, as suddenly out of nowhere everyone around me suddenly started screaming and sprinted off. Being extremely puzzled, I turned around to find a man in a black hooded cloak behind me and I can safely say I have never been so terrified in my life.
It was then time to watch a traditional Cambodian wedding, and we were lucky enough to have one of our own boys from the team have the honour of being the groom; so the team all decided instantly on Mitch doing it. We can all agree that Mitch was extremely fortunate that his fiancé was extremely gorgeous and it was clear that she was definitely out of his league…sorry buddy. After his successful marriage, we visited the Chinese village and experienced an exciting and exhilarating performance with many different talents being displayed.
Unfortunately it was time to say goodbye to our new and strong friendships that have been bonded over the last 5 days and we all can’t wait to see how they will grow over the final remaining days.
Anyway hope you enjoyed the blog 🙂 goodnight!
Cambodia Service Project 2012 
Thanks girls for keeping us up to date. Hope Jess was able to sleep last night after her ordeal with the spectre in the black hood. Congratulations to Mitch on his wedding. What a stunning …….. groom he made. Any plans of smuggling your new wife back with you on the plane MItch? Enjoy a well earned sleep in and rest day today and recharge the batteries so that you can finish the final few days well.
Hello everyone over there. Thanks for keeping us up to date on your adventures. It looks like there was some impressive entertainment at that wedding! I hope with the routine of rising early, working hard all day and heading off to bed after an impressive day of giving to others is something that you all come home with! oxox
Great to hear about your rewarding teaching experiences, girls. It is like that for us every day of the week! Teaching- what a great life!
I hope there werent’ too many tears when you had to say goodbye.
Enjoy the last few days.
so great to hear of the teaching . you can see why it is regarded so highly by the great
classical intellects janet and john