So im at the same hotel ive been all week but i just checked out this afternoon. paid my bill for 6 nights of stay, 2 drinks at the bar, laundry service, and a bus ticket to Sihanoukville.$134.25. No complaints whatsoever. I really like the feel of Siem Reap but its time that i move along and my mind has been wondering, i feel the need to do some wandering. I have already met some great people but have done most everything i want to do in this city and want to go meet some other people that are hopefully going to stick around the beaches a bit longer. I might even make my way to Thailand now, though im not sure. Its incredibly easy to find cheap travel around here by bus.
So quick update about what i got up to here was visiting an orphanage a short distance from the town center (this town is quite small). I went in and helped teach some of the English classes and absolutely fell in love with the students. They were all so eager to learn and very playful. There was one girl in a very low level class that was working on her ABC's in a book and would not follow the rules to making her R's and just dray the leg of all the R's on the page first and then make a straight line like an l on all of them and then finish them all off with a half circle. I played with her and told her to not do it that way and instead to follow the picture given and she was getting it and i was cheering her and smiling really big and she would giggle at my show, but then she would start to do it the other way again, i think the first couple times were an accident but then she just loved to see my "no, no, no! do it the correct way" reaction. I went to the hotel after classes ended to get some food and came back at night to see all the kids put on a traditional Khmer dance. IT WAS AMAZING! young young kids that you would imagine would be cute if they were making cute mistakes, but it was incredible. After it was after my moto-bike driver was waiting for me so i started walking to the gate but the girl who i was helping with her letters ran in front of me and starting writing letters in the dirt in front of me the wrong way and i started yelling at her and freaking out in my funny way and she wouldn't stop laughing. I stayed for another 30 minutes playing with a bunch of the kids.
As you can see, cute kids. I may come back here and teach again for a while when my contract is up.
I like my way of travel, without making any plans, without reading hardly any reviews of places to stay or booking anything in advance. It is really freeing, and i always end of having a good time. I would want to come back here again with a travel partner to get more off the beaten path of things.
Oh geez, i forgot to mention the airplane ride.... anyway, it was awesome as well. i did go for the hour and it was more expensive than i thought, but still very good. check out the pictures at the link at the top.
I am very anxious for tomorrow to get here.... I am ready for the new scenery and beaches, and i am also waiting to hear from a friend of mine in Korea (hint hint)....
