Five Minute Friday link up time!  This week the word is BETTER. "Are you better?" Soon after we got married I felt li...

Our younger toddler is growing up! First proper toothbrush today, and yesterday her first moto helmet. Her "words"are starting to ...

"Ask Grandma if she wants to come in." I said to my toddler today as his Khmer Grandma stood outside the front door. He turned t...

Sunday morning show pile! "I'm beautiful!" the toddler sometimes yells out when he gets out of the bath. If he were speaki...

Last week some girls from church came over to cook pizza, the week before we did cake. After making pancakes in English group they wanted to...

I've been trying to find a Khmer TV show to watch regularly to help my language skills. About a week ago I asked a Khmer friend what she...

I just got back from spending a night in the province with a family. The idea is that it's good for my khmer language, as I have to hear...

Once a week I spend the morning at a primary school. I'm there to help the teachers with their English. Before class starts they read th...

Salt tastes salty. Sugar tastes sweet. Chili tastes hot/spicy. MSG tastes.........? English students asked me this question when we were mak...

"Diarrhea!" That was the first thing one of the students said to me when they got to school the other morning, I didn't even g...

There is a Khmer pop song around these days with a line "two hearts" , I'm told it means unfaithful. I thought that was intere...

This week in English Fellowship and in my Khmer class we did the same activity. One person looks at a picture and describes it (using only t...

A Chinese friend shared this with me after reading the previous one on Khmer hearts: In Chinese, if you have no heart means you are careles...

“ When you’re ready to go out for dinner come to our room,” I said to my mum. My husband Kimsoeun and both our mums were on holiday together...

Bible School Graduation was held recently. It was great to see old friends who came for the day. I also enjoyed singing. One of the songs we...

This year we started going to a new church. Soeun has already begun helping with music and preaching. Its nice to go somewhere together and ...

“My mother in law hired a bus.” I said this (in Khmer) to a Cambodian friend and her face suddenly changed. She looked something like horrif...

Yesterday I spent the morning reading out load by myself. I read some bits of the Khmer Bible, and some simple Bible stories in Khmer. At lu...

Recently I’ve been watching a cooking show on TV (on CTN, Saturdays, 10.30-11am, its actually an Ajinomoto (MSG) promo). Its a fun way to p...

Well, actually it was Khmer language class but there were lots of Koreans in it! Also Malaysian, American, Singaporean, Hong Kongian (sp?),...