Since my arrival to Journey’s Within’ Bed and Breakfast, I have only been treated with the utmost respect and hospitality. The facilities are extremely nice and homely. The staff is warming and treats their guest like a close family. Throughout my stay, I have been...
Author: Chea Choeun
A Night out to Dinner
By Brett BriardLast summer, I spent 18 days in Cambodia as a volunteer at an English school. Traveling by myself, and being so far away from my parents was a little scary, but I had a really good time. The school I taught at was just a single room with some beat up...
Reservoir of Good Will, Well-Digging Visitors Part of Growing Trend: Volunteer Tourism
By JOHN F. GREENMANJanuary 14, 2007 SIEM REAP, Cambodia – P. Sopany, an entrepreneurial woman in a squatter’s village near here, peers into the opening of a shallow, dug well. “Water from here is not beautiful,” she says. The well is flush with the ground, framed by...
Deb – Volunteer Update # 3 (December, 2006)
I was assigned an alternate school at another temple approximately 5km out of town as the Wat Thmei temple is being used for another purpose this week. The new classroom and surrounding area is actually quite pretty (relatively speaking). I must be getting used to the...
Deb – Volunteer Update # 2 (December, 2006)
I have completed the first full week of volunteer work. It took a few days to get into the routine. When I attended the first class last Friday the classroom was a small grass hut with a mud floor. To my surprise, when I arrived Monday for the same class a new...
Deb – Volunteer Update #1 (November, 2006)
Outside the morning schoolStudents show off their assignmentsInside the classroomYou are #1 !Volunteer work started Friday November 24th after a month of touring Thailand and Vietnam. My last stop was Siem Reap Cambodia where I plan on volunteering for three to four...
Kaitlin & Sean – Photos
Kaitlin & Sean – Day 5
This morning we headed to the village to see how the wells turned out, and to finish our interviews for the Loan Project. Both of the wells are working wonderfully, and the villagers seem to be happy with them! We did 4 more interviews today, and one story was...
Kaitlin & Sean – Day 4
This morning we went to Wat Thmei to plant a garden in the front of the school. With the help of a few students and some of the resident monks, we cleaned up the grounds and prepared the beds for planting. We then headed with Brandon across the street to a nursery,...