Day 1: Flight to Cambodia
My trip to Cambodia was much different from any of my other South East Asia adventures. This time we would be spending 5 nights in the same city. Prior to this excursion the longest we stayed in one city was no longer than 3 nights before moving on to another city or county… talk about travel ADD. We were also going with a friend of mine (Alexa’s) family friend Darla, her daughter, and daughter's friend. Alexa and I have only been living in Singapore for about 4 months, but Darla and her family moved to Singapore over 13 years ago and have been visiting Cambodia often. Darla had been involved with an organization called Caring For Cambodia and invited Alexa and I to join her as we send a week volunteering with Caring for Cambodia. Caring for Cambodia is a nonprofit, non-governmental charitable organization created to provide educational opportunities for children of Cambodia. The Cambodian Government requires students to be wearing navy and white uniforms to attend school, so our trip really began back in Singapore where Darla was able to collect donated uniforms from her children’s school in Singapore. In addition to the uniforms, we were fortunate enough to have Procter & Gamble donate over 1,000 tubes of toothpaste and toothbrushes to the children of Cambodia. Naturally we had to pack very light to allow us enough space in our luggage for the uniforms, toothbrushes, and toothpastes to Cambodia.
We arrived in Siem Reip, Cambodia early Friday evening. After connecting with our driver and traveling to our hotel we immediately ate dinner and made arrangements for the rest of our days in Cambodia. Our intentions were to go on Monday directly to the original primary school built by Caring for Cambodia, drop off the supplies and assist the teachers and faculty however they needed, but little did we know Monday was a Cambodian h holiday and the school was closed. So now we only had 3 days to spend at the children’s school, but on the bright side this allowed us a full-day to explore Seim Reip.
My trip to Cambodia was much different from any of my other South East Asia adventures. This time we would be spending 5 nights in the same city. Prior to this excursion the longest we stayed in one city was no longer than 3 nights before moving on to another city or county… talk about travel ADD. We were also going with a friend of mine (Alexa’s) family friend Darla, her daughter, and daughter's friend. Alexa and I have only been living in Singapore for about 4 months, but Darla and her family moved to Singapore over 13 years ago and have been visiting Cambodia often. Darla had been involved with an organization called Caring For Cambodia and invited Alexa and I to join her as we send a week volunteering with Caring for Cambodia. Caring for Cambodia is a nonprofit, non-governmental charitable organization created to provide educational opportunities for children of Cambodia. The Cambodian Government requires students to be wearing navy and white uniforms to attend school, so our trip really began back in Singapore where Darla was able to collect donated uniforms from her children’s school in Singapore. In addition to the uniforms, we were fortunate enough to have Procter & Gamble donate over 1,000 tubes of toothpaste and toothbrushes to the children of Cambodia. Naturally we had to pack very light to allow us enough space in our luggage for the uniforms, toothbrushes, and toothpastes to Cambodia.
We arrived in Siem Reip, Cambodia early Friday evening. After connecting with our driver and traveling to our hotel we immediately ate dinner and made arrangements for the rest of our days in Cambodia. Our intentions were to go on Monday directly to the original primary school built by Caring for Cambodia, drop off the supplies and assist the teachers and faculty however they needed, but little did we know Monday was a Cambodian h holiday and the school was closed. So now we only had 3 days to spend at the children’s school, but on the bright side this allowed us a full-day to explore Seim Reip.
