Category Archives: Cambodia

Cambodia – What do you need?

As we were late it was straight into a 1.5 hour intro workshop. The teachers were happy and smily and the building, built by Pepy, was perfect. We even had power from the solar cells on the roof, again another prize from Pepy. The big challenge though was with the teachers’ attitude. The first thing…

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Cambodia – Getting to the Workshop

I’ve done workshops in rural Thailand before, but this was my first time in Cambodia. It’s an hour and a half to the village where the schools are but in a truck over rough and ready roads! We were covered in red dust before we arrived. We also stopped off for some breakfast and coconut…

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Angkor Wat

I finished everything at 9PM last night, then hopped on the midnight plane from India, via Bangkok to arrive at 9 AM in Cambodia! Siem Reap airport is very impressive in the glorious sunshine. Daniela from Pepy, who has organised this week’s workshops, picked me up in a Khmer tuk-tuk. (That’s the driver, not Daniela)…

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Older kids teach younger kids

In two weeks’ time, on the way back from my India workshops I’m stopping off in Thailand and then Cambodia to do a two day workshop for the Pepy ride teachers. I got their newsletter again yesterday and one of the great stories is how they are using the new XO “$100 laptops”. The amazing…

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