At the front we have the famous passion fruits she grows, the huge green thing is in fact the most delicious grapefruit you’ll ever eat (and I hate grapefruit) and lychees all home grown.

We had a very amazing experience yesterday (and today), Mrs Leng’s nice Socheat came up and started talking to us the day before and about how she can show us around. She’s 19, studying interior design and speaks very good English. She told us about her aunts incredible house and promised to take us their the next day. Her grandfather has been fairly unwell and Mr. Leng (her uncle) has been caring for him a lot lately so there has been a lot of family always at our house in the afternoons. Socheat, her sister and aunt beckoned us towards two motorbikes and we were off. I was on a motor bike with Mrs Laymeng and she was so happy she was hugging me the entire way. We went through to a part of Pursat that I’d never seen before, one that is absolutely beautiful and filled with lush green trees and smaller dirt roads. We arrived at her incredible house (pictured) and was given a grand tour. Lavender, wild flowers galore, pineapples, grapefruit, passion fruit to feed the masses, dragon fruit you name it she grows it! And what a proud gardener she is!

My stomach is doing somersaults today from Mrs. Leng’s suspicious cooking, so I am spending my morning in bed whilst this cutie pie keeps me company and watches YouTube videos of Dora the Explorer and the Cookie Monster.

I had to go pick up some pictures which I got printed for a present I’m making for the orphanage and the girls wanted to come for a ride. They made poor Lhakana run along side us, even though I insisted I would take 3 on my bike… 😦

Lhakana and the coconut I bought for 30cents. I use to hate coconut water at home, but it’s heavenly here from freshly cut green coconuts, chilled to perfection. It’s also better at hydrating they say….

Caught in the act…

Eeeeeeeey baby!

This morning was a very special morning at the orphanage, we had a re-returning volunteer (something I hope to do also). This man, Frank volunteered for 2 weeks last year, he bought and constructed them a new roof for the “classroom” as well as 5 bunk beds. He has come back to help set up sponsorship for the 10/16 children who aren’t sponsored as well as get Internet and computer programs up and running with the aim of teaching the children skills like bracelet weaving, painting and sewing so they can fundraise using these things back in Australia. He’s looking for a permanent teacher to work with the kids and volunteers will still come in and help. This weekend he’s taking all the kids and teachers out for dinner. After frank went off to the markets with Borin to get food supplies, another bus of people came through… This time a team of doctors and nurses from the USA. They have been travelling around Cambodia running health checks and handing out free toothbrushes, tooth paste and instructions as well as any other health and hygiene requirements like vitamins needed. They were so lovely to talk to and so impressed by what we were doing. One of them actually sponsors one of the girls from this orphanage and so he came to visit her, see how she was going and took her for an excursion to Siem Reap for the day (this is a huge deal for the kids). Frank bought the kids this flag.