Day 118 - Final week, it's going to be sad!

I look about ready to fall!

Day 118 - 19th October

It's a weird feeling thinking I only have one more week here. I can remember talking to people back home about my travelling and I always spoke so much of the nine weeks I'd be spending in Cambodia, sports volunteering with kids. It seemed like a distant project on the horizon and as I travelled around in the two months prior to it, it was always more than a few weeks away.

Here I am now, eight full weeks down and one to go. This has been one of the more awesome and more importantly educational experiences of the whole trip. Seeing and experiencing Khmer life for longer than a few days in one place has really shown me the kind and generous nature of the Khmers who have so little they can afford but so much that they can give. They always want to learn English and I always love to talk so we've gone hand in hand. So much so I'm now poised to pick up a job here next March. I can't wait.

As per our usual Monday's we had the morning off so I had breakfast and looked at some places in Laos I'd like to visit. Aside from the capital city, I aim to visit Vang Vieng and Luang Prabang in addition to Paske, if I fly. It looks like a hell of a country so I can't wait to visit before my move to Chiang Mai just under two weeks later.

At 11am, I met with Charlie and DK for our weekly sports meeting and we discussed the topic of the environment as our talking point this week using Rugby as the sport. It's going to be a busy last week and I'm going all out for the finish.

DK had his vocabulary tt with me and gain 10/15 so I was really proud of him. Our lessons will continue in the form of email as I carry on travelling and he's started university now for two years to achieve his English teaching dream. He's going to make it, I sure of that!

In the afternoon, we went to Project A and tested out new games. Similar to the big drop game that we'd created a few weeks earlier, this time the kids had to balance the rugby balls on the cones whilst an attacker knocked them off. The message was that no matter how much they cleaned up, others who didn't care would always come along and make more mess. Only together can they keep the environment clean.

I was pleased this was the teaching for the week given this was the biggest issue I had with Cambodia when I first arrived. The amount of rubbish here is unbelievable and if they want the countrysides and cities to continue attracting people they need to clean up and stop littering.

In the even, I went out to suss out more bus tickets to see if I could get a lower cost and I had dinner in  my usual place.

One day down, four to go! Crap!

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