Recently we went to a wedding of a Khmer man and a girl from Hong Kong . The cultural mix was obvious in the days activities. It began with ...

Well, I was so happy that we were able to buy a fridge. I've grown up with a fridge in the house, keeping food cold is good! However, m...

Happy Birthday Edwin!

My class mate I wrote about in a previous post (Dengue Fever, click on side bar to read or scroll down) does have DF. After waiting a few da...

As most of my classmates are Korean, but the teacher doesn't speak Korean he sometimes uses a dictionary to explain words. He has one th...

What do these three pictures have in common? They all show Khmer people with a “groma” on their head. This piece of cloth is kind of like a ...

Just out on the street some sellers roast chicken. Often on the weekend we buy a chicken meal from these people. As well as the chicken we g...

At the moment Cambodia is having an outbreak of Dengue Fever. At first I just heard about it on Radio Australia and read about it in the P...

This post is from the same beach trip that I posted about earlier (in June I think, along with the snake house). Only this post is about the...

Thanks for leaving comments on our posts. (Yes, you are correct Donna, my liver is fine.) I (Katherine) just had a week off language classes...

As I drank my bottle of water the other day, I pondered the ambiguity of the phrase that was printed on the label. “The quality drops.”

Snake House While we were in Kampong Som we visited this mini zoo restaurant place called “Snake House”. They have rock pythons and heaps o...

Beach Trips I lived in Sydney for about five and a half years and went to the beach once or twice. I’ve lived in Phnom Penh just over a year...

Well, I've almost finished my first term of Khmer language study at the uni. Next month I'll start Level 2. New book! New teacher ma...

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