Erin and Jen work in a village, Kean Svay, outside Phnom Penh where they are doing awesome in house water treatment projects. Jen has just arrived here, but Erin has been living here in the village for the past 7 months before taking the leap and moving into the big ol’ city of PP. Now [...]
Entries from August 2008
August 25, 2008
The Kids of Future Light Orphanage aka FLO
If you want to assist the kids at FLO please take at look at the FLO website as there many ways you can be involved from being a foster parent to making a tax-deductible donation. It’s a good cause, I promise.
Throughout our travels, Kelly and I have met many interesting people and some of [...]
August 17, 2008
Cambodian Genocide: The Killing Fields and Tuol Sleng
A very long and emotionally draining day had to be done while in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; for to understand the horrors this country is still recovering from, one must go to the sites that are not easy to see.
From 1975 until 1979, Cambodia experienced genocide under the ultra-communist Khmer Rouge and the man in charge, [...]
August 12, 2008
Goodbye Laos, Hello Cambodia–We Take a Trip to Angkor Wat
We have left Laos and are now on an adventure through Cambodia.
My friend, Erin, from the Sobsey lab at UNC is working outside of Phnom Penh, so Kelly and I organized to be at Siem Reap on the weekend and Erin bussed over so we could spend the weekend together in Siem Reap, the city [...]
August 6, 2008
Tubing down the river in Vang Vieng
The only reason people go to Vang Vieng is to tube down the river. V.V. is a major backpacker mecca full of bad restaurants, cheap rooms, and white people with dreadlocks. One thing about the restaurants, which is both bad and good, is that they show ‘Friends’ on dvd on their tvs. Now I know [...]
August 5, 2008
Plain of Jars
We decided to take a 3 day sidetrip to the Plain of Jars in Northeastern Laos, which is in a province called Xieng Khouang–a region which still contains many UXOs due to all the bombing by the USA during “The Secret War” (1964-1973).
First of all, I need to define a few acronyms which will be [...]
