The journey to Cambodia
We left Koh Chang two days ago and began the journey to the Cambodian border and onto Sihanoukville on Cambodia’s South Coast. The journey from Koh Chang went smoothly apart from waiting almost an hour for a taxi from White Sand beach to the ferry port. We didn’t get the … Read More
Island paradise – or not?!
I arrived in Koh Chang off the South coast of Thailand three days ago. (when I began writing this post!) After a very comfortable first class bus journey from Bangkok then a short ferry ride to the island loosing our squishies and my expertly crafted pillow case along the way … Read More
Good-buy Chiang Mai
Time seems to be going so quickly. Yet at the same time it seems like soooo long since I left Korea, the kids are almost a distant memory. Today I leave Chiang Mai and head to Bangkok to meet Katrina. Although Emily and I have been travelling for almost a … Read More
In the jungle – Day two
On day two in the Thai jungle I was woken at 4am when the rooster underneath our hut on stilts decided it was time to get up. Luckily after about half an hour he realised he was being ignored and shut up allowing us another four hours sleep! I got … Read More
In the jungle – Day one
Two days ago I embarked on yet another once in a life time experience. This time it was trekking through the Thai jungle to visit different hill tribe villages, ride an elephant and bamboo raft down a river. All this action was packed into just two days, with one night … Read More
Beautiful beaches and moving on
Well. It’s been a hectic few weeks but the time has come to leave the Philippines and move on to Chiang Mai in Thailand. Since I’ve been here Internet time has been severely limited and I still can’t find a way to upload photos in this country. Hopefully I will … Read More
Everyone must get wet!
I haven’t written for a while because here in the Philippines my internet time is severely limited. Plus I am too busy having fun and seeing amazing things to spend time sat in front of a computer. I have 1 hour and 34 minutes of internet time today so I … Read More
Arrived in Bacolod on Negros island in the Philippines
It’s been a while since I last wrote and it will be another while until I am properly able to blog all the adventures I had in Manila as I don’t have time right now and I am unable to upload the photos. A very short into to Manila: it … Read More
Arrived in Manila
Just a quick post to say I have arrived in Manila safe and well. I meant to blog my reflections on Korea and something about my last day at school before I left Korea but ran out of time. I have half written the post tho so I will finish … Read More
One Sunday in Kumdan
Last Sunday Kat and I decided to go for a stroll around Kumdan to take some pictures before I left. Little did we know what the day had in store. After walking around we went for a beer before I headed to the PC room and Kat went home. Shortly … Read More
No more “Jenna Seon-saeng-nim (teacher)”
Today feels like a bit of a dream. I though I’d be upset at leaving school especially leaving behind my kindy babies but walking out of the classroom for the final time was a lot easier than I expected. Maybe it was because some of the kindy kids were a … Read More
No more JCK 2 Free Talking – Assha
Written on Friday 1st June 2007 Never ever, ever, ever again will I have to teach JCK 2 Free Talking. I despise this class to the point where I now put as much effort into the class as the kids – zero. When I first arrived I was warned about … Read More