Our final days in Kandal

DAY 10-12: COWS, FUNKY CHICKEN, BROKEN FLOOR BOARDS AND FERRIES

Continuing our teaching in the Kandal Provence region with increasing numbers of students each day (exceeding 140 on a few occasions!) we were very proud of the obvious progress the children were making during class as well as the start and end of day sing songs. We especially enjoyed overhearing them eagerly practicing the English they had learnt under the house we were staying in through the bamboo slat floor.

On Wednesday evening we were taken to the nearby rice fields by the locals, however these were currently dry and used as grazing land for farm animals. We continued over the fields to the nearby river, and took some lovely photos in old canoes and watched a local fisherman at work.
On this excursion, the team also discovered Nikkis fear of cows, made evident when she physically pushed the rest of the team out the way (near head first into the mud) to make a run for it as the cow turned to look at her!

The final day in this village came all too quickly, and the morning was spent re-capping all that the children had worked so hard on, and celebrating their achievements with lots of photos (half an hours worth in fact!) and lots of their favorite songs (Pizza hut and Funky Chicken were called for more than once!). We also felt privileged to meet, and see the satisfaction of, the principle of the school who thanked us for all our hard work. Finally children helped us to recreated the GOLD song which was a favorite to all at 2nd briefing thanks to team Guyana (see photo).

The rest of the day was spent packing our kit, thanking our very kind host for her hospitality, and Sarah breaking a little of the bamboo floor boards (it was previously snapped).
We piled back onto the minibus and waved goodbye as we travelled back to Phnom Penh via a ferry-drawing quite a crowed on the way.

The evening was spent getting ready for the next Province as we only had a total of 20 hours to wash clothes, wash ourselves, sort and pack resources, eat, shop, and get a good nights sleep.