We have arrived!

We have arrived safe and sound in Cambodia! The flights were long and tiring (but we did get to sit upstairs on the plane from Heathrow to Bangkok!) We were met at Phnom Penh airport by our rep from Projects Abroad, Sithar, and came to the hotel. We had some time to shower and unpack before lunch. We then had our induction talks before having a couple of hours to catch some sleep as we didn't really sleep on the flight. After this we got to explore the local area before heading to a lovely restaurant for our welcome dinner. We all tried some local Cambodian dishes with lots of us having the 'fish amok' - it was all very tasty! Then back to the hotel for a good night's sleep.

Today was our placement induction day. We will be teaching English to high school students, we visited the school on Silk Island and met the principal to discuss what we will be doing. In he morning's we will be teaching and in the afternoon we will be doing some renovation at the school including laying a concrete path and repainting classrooms. We started to plan our first lessons over lunchtime. In the afternoon we went to a silk farm and learnt how silk is made before coming back across the river to do some shopping in the central market...lots of elephant trousers were bought!

Dinner this evening was at the 'Titanic' restaurant before coming back to continue planning our lessons ready to teach to our first classes tomorrow.

Things we've treasured so far:

Learning about our renovation project and visiting the market

Falling asleep the second our heads touched our pillows

The fish amok  and all the nice food especially ice cream in both resturants 

Finally seeing the beautiful buildings and culture